{"id":3579,"date":"2012-07-21T01:48:15","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T08:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2012-07-22T01:00:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T08:00:48","slug":"project-rx-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grandmighty.com\/2012\/07\/project-rx-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Project RX-7"},"content":{"rendered":"
Although highly costly and time consuming, going through the multitude of cars that I did in the past few years has at least gained me valuable insight and experiences. I have cultivated my tastes enough to finally be able to conclude and assess a verdict. I am returning to my roots, I am returning to the one car that felt most right out of them all.<\/p>\n
I know I may have clashed with my own opinions before, and even reached a point of exasperation after the Miata<\/a> where I shunned everything I did. That was wrong due misdirection – the Miata was the wrong car. I was too conservative in ambition and thought that a cheap car could be made to work. I later flipped my outlook and decided to chase the other end of the spectrum, and picked up the modern and relatively expensive 135i<\/a>. The BMW was a welcome change of pace, albeit only briefly. It was certainly nice to experience finer, more luxurious amenities in a car… but the novelty soon wore off.<\/p>\n I learned an important lesson with the BMW. I’m not the type that can settle with a newer, “everyday” sort of car. I definitely do not want a fancy German car anymore, because the image it entails does not appeal to me. More substantially, I feel that cars of today lack soul and lack a sense of obscurity – characteristics that are fundamental in making a car worthwhile. <\/p>\n I need a car that is uncommon, a car that has its quirks and character adding problems… and most of all, something that I can craft and mold. There is an explanation to my pattern of switching cars so often. It is not because I am easily bored, but because I have been searching for the right fit all this time.<\/p>\n