I understand what you are talking about. I'm not an idiot.

I happen to think that the eclipse takes turns better than any car I've ever driven. Escpecially when coming out of a turn. It zooms!

I understand what you are saying about "the feel of the car", but quite often, numbers like those are good starting points for a measure of how well a car performs overall. There is no way that I would prefer a 150 HP bug over my 210 HP turbo Eclipse. It's shaped better for performance than the bug, too.

As for the Miata, well, I had the choice of that over the Eclipse. Then I saw how pathetically small it was. It's completely impractical.

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