I like stories and ideas like this, thanks.
I dont have range anxiety, I have wallet anxiety…
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Drove past a car dealer this morning, I think they only do second hand. There was a Land Cruiser parked up - I love those cars. Hard as nails. I’d never buy one, though, as I don’t have enough use for it.
This one had R17000 per month written on the windscreen 
I drove on.
My wife wondered out loud if that’s the vehicle price, or the fuel price.
Wallet anxiety indeed.
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In our small complex (46 houses) the average car these days is either a new Prado, Defender 130 or Ranger Raptor. And then people have second cars of all sorts (Volvo XC40, BMW X3 and C-class are common), and about 15 or so houses have Porsches as weekend cars. One guy has 3x Porsches, an Aston Martin, a Ferrari, and some sort of convertible Mercedes as hobby cars.
I have a 4x2 Ranger. And I don’t drive it all that often. We work from home and primarily do online grocery shopping. When school starts again next week we’ll do our daily 3.4km commute to and from school twice per day. The fuel bill of this one car is already too high for my tastes.
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I bought a 2025 Tesla Model 3 Performance…sweet baby jesus it’s 
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I test drove a 2024 one in Portugal in 2024. It really is very fast.
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Would be really awesome to have slate come to south africa
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Maybe we’ll get a Chinese equivalent…
There’s no replacement for displacement 
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I like that, put that on a t-shirt.
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Misha came to SA!
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And bought a honda 
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I like that he explored more realistic car culture in SA.
He could easily have gone to a fancy boutique dealer/club and driven a supercar like everyone else. Or he could have driven a priceless race homologation vehicle.
Instead he went to a small garage and drove a strange Honda xD
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Super gay review!
And I’d loved it! Instant sub to the channel.
What a great, fun review, really. Thank you for sharing it - absolutely made my day. The MX-5 has a very special personal place in my life for various reasons. And, given the choice, I would definitely take that hardtop version over a softtop. Or over many other cars for that matter. Mazda South Africa should really do a better job of getting more of them into the local market.
ETA: Had to go play around with the Mazda UK configurator again. And dream…
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Hasn’t the MX5 always been seen as a “hairdresser’s” car in any case?
Hairdressers typically have great taste, so that tracks 
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It was such a well done review! I haven’t enjoyed one as much in a long time.
The bad news is that it was discontinued for sale here a while ago. The RF (hardtop) was the last model offered and only with an auto box.
MX5 also tracks!
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I mean, I’m okay with Ferrrari doing a fully electric car. But why would the board of such an iconic marque greenlight such an utterly awful looking car? Jony Ive is an inspirational designer, but holy kak, this thing looks like it crawled out of the pre-Prius concept sketch book. They could so easily have made a proper Ferrari-looking Ferrari. For €550,000? Nope. I mean, if you’re going to give me one, I’ll take it with pleasure and love driving it everyday - it’s really amazing piece of modern technology. I just wish it would look a little more like a Ferrari.
Everything about it is pure Ferrari - the interior, the performance, the specifications, the handling. The look? Nah. Of course, it’ll sell like hotcakes obviously. And then some.
Even having Pope Leo give it his blessing doesn’t seem to have soothed the nerves of Ferrari investors…