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- Manual transmission availability
- Being able to easily modify for more power
- Being able to take part in full sessions for a whole track day and be able to get home after
- Much less weight so you aren’t cooking the brakes and chewing up tires on track
- Minimal planning for road trips
- Much better flexibility on stops on road trips
The perfect middle ground happened for me with my 2001 E46. Modern headlight shape but with easily replaceable lenses. Gluing the damn things together is BS.