Really.. are they so horrible you can't swap a SBC into it?

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when i was 7 i wanted a stingray or a camaro.

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Unrealized dreams never suffer from being varnished by the cold, harsh light of reality. Around the same time I got the 'Stang, I lusted after a cute girl in Art class. I imagined what it would be like to go with her, the comfort of knowing she was my girl, the excitement of a new romance. When I actually worked up the courage, and started dating her I found her to be cold, neurotic and a bitch. After that I could never go back to the imagined world of our relationship, where nothing bad ever happened.

NIce review Wes. The Exige is a stand-out car, really unique in today's market. I think you captured the driving experience with great accuracy and elan (no pun intended). I think I'll just fantasize about owning one, and omit the parts about creaking knees when getting in and out, as well as the outrageous insurance bills that accompany such a hoontastic ride.

Thanks man.

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It was gold metalflake, and so was the seat. The flag on its fiberglass pole flipped and snapped smartly in my wake as we tore like the wind up and down the parking lots and along the biking trails. This was the discovery of a wide world, far beyond where my short little legs could go, as enthralling as the landscape could be with a wide-open straightaway and a brisk tailwind, as thrilling with the vertiginous drops and swoops of the hills and turns.

I eventually did indeed want a car a lot like the Exige. I'm entirely too large and unfortunately too old to feel the insistent push of the wind on my back as my little bike and I explored distant lands before rushing home in time for supper. But with such a stout little heart, such a ready spirit, perhaps when tipping into the engine's power I might hear that old wind, not so very far off.

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My inner seven-year-old still thinks so, in fact- it's only my forebrain which believes them to be overexposed.

Nothing against it, but like my fellow commenters, there are quite a few more robust jacks-of-all-trades at the $70k price point.

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"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure."
- George Sand

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Also, taking people on dates in an Exige sounds like a very good way to weed out anyone too high maintenance.

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