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Originally Posted by AnalogMan

winstonscifi, ls1ac, jcw99, thank you for making me feel that I'm not the oldest BRZ driver in the world (though I think I'm in the upper tenth percentile, at least in age if nothing else).

winstonscifi, I'm a Joe Walsh fan, but that's not where my handle came from. I just picked it because in some things, I'm kind of an anti-technology neo-Luddite (despite having worked in cutting-edge biotechnology my entire life), though I am a huge scifi fan (which I assume you might be as well from your handle). I like to keep car things simple, and don't like technology just for technology's sake (but passionately embrace it if there's a need for and genuine value to it). Simple automotive systems tend to be more reliable, and easier to fix when they break. I only drive manual transmissions, am not a fan of Teslas, avoid things like 'drive by wire steering', and prefer a carburetor over fuel injection. I prefer a level of tech in a car that I'm comfortable working on. I have and listen to vacuum-tube radios and stereo, and we have two rotary-dial phones in our house (one 1919, one 1939) that work perfectly.

I've never cared what others think about what I drive, if my car is 'faster' than theirs, or what the "numbers" are. What's important to me is how I like the car, how it feels to drive it (and of course what my wife thinks; I didn't get a Corvette because she refuses to ride in one).

You're only young once, but immaturity can last forever.

There are many, many more as old or older than those you mentioned but they have not checked in here. Probably can't get their dial up modems to work. Statistically, based upon the know ages of the purchasers, you, I and everybody else that buy the cars new are in the top 25th percentile for age. I have seen more of these cars driven by people that appear to be my age or older than young people. Now, once we start talking used then all bets are off as to age. With only a handful of exceptions it takes us older guys to buy them new for them to exist used for the 16 to 24 year olds though.