I remember one day years ago, when I was in college, I pulled up to a stoplight in my '66 Mustang with the grocery-getter 200-cid 6-cylinder. Next to me at the light was a little late-70's Japanese econobox. I was thinking Corolla wagon/Datsun 510, not really paying attention.
I needed to change lanes before the next light, so when the signal changed I jumped on it pretty aggressively to pull ahead of the econobox. Didn't work, though, and when the girl in the econobox saw what I was trying to do, she romped down on the accelerator and positively DUSTED me.
As she pulled away I remember seeing the words "Mazda Rotary Wagon" on the fender. Oops.
It's not a bad looking car and won a sport car shootout in Road & Track a few years ago against the Nissan 350Z and some other likely competitors, but to me it just looks too pedestrian to really get the blood flowing. I wish they would do away with the 2+2 format and suicide back doors and make a pure sports car again.
The aforementioned Nissan, for instance, looks WAY more bitchin'.