Wow... wall of text for the lose... but at least you gave real information so that's a bonus :)
I'd vote for the Saturn SL1. I owned one for a long time- bought it in 2001 with 67k miles on it, sold it in 2005 with 196k miles on it. Never
| Jan 04, 2010
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Who Killed The Sports Coupe?
At least in the American market, that is, where we’ve got the collective attention span of ADD-riddled 4th graders.В What was hot last year is old news this year, and anything from the year before that has long since been forgotten.В And while this is easily applicable to individual cars -- witness the dramatic rise in popularity and precipitous fall of cars like the PT Cruiser, Thunderbird, New Beetle, Audi TT, and about 14 million other “cars of the minute” -В if you look at the market as a whole, it’s applicable to entire segments. a minivan.В The Sport Utility Vehicle exploded onto the scene, with cars like the Ford Explorer, Jeep Cherokee, and Isuzu Trooper (remember Isuzu?) being the faces that launched a thousand clones, from Acura to Volvo.
And while very little of this really saddens me all that much (you can’t tell me you miss the road being clogged up with body-on-frame SUV’s being driven by one tiny housewife going to get the groceries!), what truly saddens me is the apparent death of the small, light, inexpensive sports coupe.В It was once one of the most hotly contested market segments, with just about every major mainstream manufacturer dipping their toe -- or their whole foot -- into the water.В Today, it’s a segment that’s deader than Lindsay Lohan’sВ career prospects.
The sports coupe segment used to be a churning, active, busy segment -- because that’s what people (at least, young people) wanted.В It’s hard to admit, but 20-somethings lost the plot when their interest moved from Integra to Xterra.В Still, this is perhaps due to the gullibility of young people -- who believe they want whatever it is that’s being marketed to them, even if it’s a Nissan Frontier with a bunch of plastic glued to it that’s supposed to grant you some sort of crazy “lifestyle.”
