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Originally Posted by s0sl0w
Please take your request for added garbage like sunroofs, convertibles, T-Tops, Targas, etc and buy a Camaro, Mustang, 35/70Z, Corvette or any number of other cars that manage to do a good bit with a lot. I'd prefer my car to keep doing a lot with the least. That's amazing, that's engineering, and that's what legends are made of.
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Most performance cars these days are hammers. You can change a lot of things about a hammer and it still does the job very well, it satisfies a lot of requirements and gets the job done in an awe inspiring fashion.
The 86 is closer to a scalpel (along with cars like the S2000, Cayman/Boxster, and to a lesser extent Miata, which is probably comparable to a pocket knife in my long winded self serving analogy that only soslow will appreciate). Kind of specialized, not as spectacular as a hammer and nowhere near as versatile but very good at certain things. When you add a bunch of stuff to your scalpel, it morphs into something that isn't quite a scalpel, you may have made yourself something that is truly one of a kind and satisfies many many people (especially those who compare scalpels to hammers) but it isn't quite a scalpel anymore and that makes some people sad.
Sure mawd it all day long, drop it, lower it, strip it, put a bird on it! Cut holes in it! I don't care as long as someone is still selling scalpels I'll be happy.
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