Hello, All!
After years of watching and waiting, I finally sprang on a Mirage today, and I am so excited!
I started as a lurker on EcoModder back in the day, trying to hypermile my old Accord. Though I was around (lurking, mostly) when the new Mirage first started to be talked about on EM, that was far outside of my budget, and I was already pretty enamored with the Insight as a fine piece of engineering. I dreampt of buying one of those, and nearly bought one last year before it fell through. In the meantime, I started to look more at what this whole Mirage thing was all about, as by now, the first models had started to drop in price quite a bit to where I might be willing to purchase one, so I also nearly imported that super cheap one in SW Ontario, as that's really not a far drive from my area, but I couldn't mess with getting it all modified to pass inspection for US standards, and I left that dream to pursue an Insight, which fell through last minute.
After going through this year at college with no car, I was still watching for a good, beater Insight. Thanks to a generous gift from my dear grandpa, though, my budget increased significantly for a car, and life changes this year (including a marvelous woman) have made the two seats and small cargo room of the Insight less practical, so I started searching again. Though Covid seems to have drastically cut the availability of used cars on the market where I'm from (at least compared to this time last year), I finally snagged one just this evening, and will attempt the process of transfering it into the state this week. I could hardly be more thrilled to have finally joined the club!
EDIT: It's a 2015 CVT with 107k miles. I have some work to do on it to get it in top shape (and preserve it) but after that, I hope to do some MPG mods.