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Yes and no. It's fun to show off but driving is okay. No power steering, dealing with late 70s tech, it's a 5-speed so I HATE driving in traffic, normal classic car maintenance, and a lack of people who can work on it.
But lemme tell you: the moment I pop the doors, people come out the woodwork. Any time I get gas I have to pad the stop by 10-min for the inevitable person who'll come up and ask me about it.
Its funny, I like traffic with a manual better than an automatic. I can just idle along, control speed almost fully with the gas. Play the game where I see if I can roll to a stop going up hill and apply brake just as I stop.
You've never driven in NY traffic I take it. It's not fun in a 5-speed when you're moving along for an hour at 5mph
Helps if you have lots of low end torque. I know my Scirocco 16V hated that low speed, but 2L Fiats you can drive almost without ever using the clutch, idling along.
I have loved every stick I've ever driven, back roads or city. Then i got my wrx. Good thing i love in the country.
I imagine it would be real fun with some good performance mods.
Oh for sure. I've seen some great mods (twin turbo, Northstar engine swap, etc) and with a proper engine, the car MOVES. You're so low to the ground and the car has excellent handling, so it's quite ready for more HP.
I've seen two companies offering drop-in EV replacement mods and lemme tell you: it's tempting. My Ioniq 5 does 0-60 in 4 seconds. The Delorean as-is does it in 12-13 seconds. So if I got the DMC to a ~6S 0-60, it would easily handle it and be crazy-fun to drive.
EV conversion would be great. This way you could drive the powertrain with Mr Fusion as well, that would make time travelling less cumbersome.