Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

In an effort to get you to reconsider your stance on 4bangers I present the following:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201811082263366?postcode=n88aa&sort=sponsored&radius=30&price-to=2000&transmission=Manual&body-type=Coupe&advertising-location=at_cars&zero-to-60=TO_8&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=New&page=1

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201811262756842?postcode=n88aa&advertising-location=at_cars&onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=New&sort=sponsored&body-type=Convertible&price-to=2000&zero-to-60=TO_8&radius=30&page=1

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201809150525180?onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=New&postcode=n88aa&price-to=2000&radius=30&advertising-location=at_cars&body-type=Convertible&sort=sponsored&zero-to-60=TO_8&page=2

and a rotary to top it off... (If you plumped for one of these and it let go, you probably would want to leave it at the circuit and get a cab home instead of facing the bill to put it right)

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201809060212791?onesearchad=Used&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=New&postcode=n88aa&radius=30&sort=sponsored&body-type=Coupe&zero-to-60=TO_8&price-to=2000&advertising-location=at_cars&transmission=Manual&page=2

Join the Fury club then - https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/kit-cars/fisher/fisher------2002/9132103. Fast but scruffy. Ideal for track use, although you may need a bigger silencer for 89dB days. And another garage.

If you bought a car you could cheerfully leave in a gravel trap, you would spend 15k making it absolutely right to drive into a gravel trap. A decent 3.0 Z4 is less than 4x what you have just spent on your wheel arches.....

Not RWD but would you go the scooby route? Cheap to buy, cheap parts and real easy to get power out of.