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I DO STILL LOVE MY RX-8: Mickey Kaus emails: ?You saw you have the 3d best handling car sold in Am?

By Glenn Reynolds

I DO STILL LOVE MY RX-8: Mickey Kaus emails: “You saw you have the 3d best handling car sold in America, according to Car & Driver? They were shocked by how good it was. Beat BMW M3, Nissan GT-R, Corvette. Lost only to Lotus Elise (a toy) and Porsche Boxster.” Actually, I hadn’t, but I believe it. It handles better than I can drive, so there’s no point in me “upgrading” to something else.

Still trouble-free, too. Had to put in a new battery, but that’s because I loaned it out and the dome light got left on for a week. . . .

UPDATE: Reader George Pepper writes:

“It handles better than I can drive.” Man, I wish more dudes were hip to that. I don’t care for cars, frankly – I drive a truck – but it’s the same deal with motorcycles. I ride a BMW, am in my 50’s, and I regularly waste twenty-something squids through any given set of twisties. Apres ride conversations invariably are a variation on this:

Squid: “Dude! You toasted me and I have a GSXTZFZR- 75,000!”

Me: “Your bike can easily beat my bike, but you can’t beat me.”

lol.

A man’s gotta know his limitations. And I was a lot better at driving much faster than I should when I was in my teens, and had no dependents, even though my car wasn’t nearly as good . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 14, 2010 (boomark / email).