But this is a false dichotomy
But this is a false dichotomy, created by car makers today. Nobody sees my Sky Red Line going slow, except perhaps in a hairpin turn. At some point, someone like Honda will come back with an S2000, or an RX-9. And both Honda and Mazda seem poised to do that.
I wouldn't put it past Mazda to make a cabrio version of the RX-9 either.
The whole affordable-auto industry thought after 2009, nobody would buy a fun car again. The industry misunderestimated the amount of oil fracking in America, and the amount of time it would take for autonomous cars to get real.