I am absolutely not a car guy. In fact, I own three comfortably crappy cars: ’97 Subaru Outback, ’97 Dodge Grand Caravan and a really paint faded ’97 Honda Civic SE. The Caravan was my ex-wife’s and when we split up oh so long ago she left it behind. It is a great pinball and bicycle auto. The Civic was my daughter’s in high school and college. Unfortunately, the timing belt broke going over Vail pass. I put a new rebuilt engine in it twelve years ago and so far so good.

I did say that I was not much of a car guy. I do own my middle aged crisis car: a 2006 Honda S2000. It currently has less than 18,000 miles on it and I bought it used with less than 5,000 on the odometer. I never waxed a car before this one and now it is strictly hand rubbed carnauba wax. Just like a pinball playfield and the car has custom fit cover. I put on a nice Italian jacket (Canali) and sunglasses (Persols), put the top down and I am a different man. The best thing about it is that it is a Honda: über reliable and inexpensive to maintain. They have now started to get a bit of a cult following.
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Before I retired I worked with some serious car guys. One of them was the sort who went to Munich to pick up his custom M something BMW with a custom colour to match. He races cars on the weekend. He would go on and on about how great the S2000 was. Whenever I see him he wants to know if the S2000 is for sale. Apparently it had some very serious engineering. The engines were "hand made" whatever that means.