I did autocross. I truly don’t didn’t seriously care about it — I just preferred to daily-drive the Miata. It was fun on the street and on the parkways north of NYC where I had to go a day or two out of the week for work.

It even did fine in snow with four winter tires, a hard top, and a ski rack, though people looked at me like I was insane. I wasn’t; I’m just not your typical wuss who feels that need an SUV barge just to cope with normal traffic.