I’ve been driving ugly little cars for too long, so now that I have my first real job out of college, I wanted to treat myself to a Dallas Honda car I actually liked. I ended up picking the 2008 S2000, which is a sleek little convertible which looked just like I imagine a car should look. It has nothing of the contorted features of many modern convertibles, and has an appearance which is both sturdy and impressive.

So how is the drive? FUN. It’s got a chassis which is very nimble, but I got the most kick out of the engine, which revs like crazy and makes the noise you want everybody else to hear. It’s pretty spare and doesn’t have too much holding it back, and in addition to that it packs a lot of performance quality into only thirty thousand dollars.