Re: Measuring Up to the Competition
Some of the most fun cars around were flops in the marketplace (though with 76,000 produced over five model year I don't think it fits that category) - in four years Buick produced 22,000 Reattae with about 2,500 convertibles mostly because of the same issue, prices about the same as Crossfires but 15 years earlier.
Personally have always liked relatively small two seaters with "interesting" engines, preferably a six & every decade or so there are enough improvements to make a new look advisable.
What does surprise me is that the interior seems to be a 3/4 sized replica of what is really needed. Thought I had gotten it close but an hour's drive felt cramped, I may need the sawzall after all or may need to rebuild the seat. (Just bought another driver's seat to experiment with.
For the height impaired it is probably wonderful but at 5'10" I feel like I am unfolding from a clown car, something I never felt in a Fiero (the car you wear).
So I want to like it, Ireally do but one thing I require of my cars is the ability at any moment to head up the turnpike, make a right at Wildwood, a left at Lake City and on 'til I reach the left coast.
With the Crossfire, I don't think so. Yet.