When a road trip takes me across Illinois, I always pause to gas up in Terre Haute, just this side of the border. Due to the esoterica of CCW laws, there's no problem with me being strapped while driving across the Land of Lincoln, but I can't get out of the car to get gas with my heater on, lest I... I dunno, go all Hoosier on them or something.
At any rate, this most recent trip out to the St. Louis area, I extended my gas stop long enough to grab a burger at Mickey Dee's, too.
I was glad I did because I spotted a Mazda MX-3, which is not at all a common sight.
They were only imported for a few years, from '92-'96. The performance version, the MX-3 GS, had a twee little 1.8L V-6 under the hood, with variable intake geometry and a 7,000 rpm redline.
The lack of aero doodads and the stamped steel wheels lurking behind the plastic wheel covers tell us that this Brilliant Black specimen is the more pedestrian RS coupe, which would have had a fairly tame 1.6L four-banger.
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