Advice on Which make & options I should Buy?

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I must have missed the complaints on being broke down, excessive maintenance, and 1 hour drives and you are done.

I tend to think that the vast majority of us don't experience break downs, excessive maintenance, or simple 1 hour drives. Once you see one up close, you will quickly realize how simple the car is. It's for the most part, all mechanical with no gimmicks. There truly isn't much that can go wrong. It's the type of car where you get in and drive for a couple hours, aimlessly, for a day out of the week. Or you get bored during the week and hop in and drive for a little bit.

There are plenty of "complaints" to be had with these cars, but most of them would stem from someone using it as a daily driver. If it's in the mid 90's and sunny, I'm getting in the daily driver with a/c. If I'm going for a long ride where it could rain, I'm in the daily driver. Dogs? Daily driver. Too cold? Daily driver. Luggage for a weekend? Daily driver....or daily driver and the Cobra if there is storage at the destination.

Perhaps that is where you are being mislead. Scaramanga wants to believe that he can use this car as a daily driver, which is QUITE possible (plenty of people do), but for most of us, we prefer a daily driver with a bit more manners. I wouldn't own this car as my only daily driver. If I had one choice for a car, fun and DD, but still wanted something a bit more extreme for budget pricing, I'd get the Viper (or some would prefer a 911...or gasp...a vette). Either way, the items that you could see as complaints are really just reality checks.