One of my first sports cars was the Honda S800, great little car but very difficult to get the spares and expensive to maintain, used it to take my Aunt in the front with younger brother and sister (crouched up in the back behind the seats) to the family farm. They were a even more squashed coming back keeping the butchered pig company all the way home. In the summer whenever I was out on the motorbikes my Father would take my Mother for a spin in it without asking first, I always knew because my father would fill the tank before coming back home. He never extended the same courtesy and let me use his Jaguar. The Honda S800 are quite serious money these days if you can find a nice example, keeping it running may be a challenge as spares where very thin on the ground in the UK when new. My other favourite GT at this time was my Vauxhall Viva GT
https://www.goodwood.com/grr/road/news/2019/1/classic-first-drive-vauxhall-viva-gt/ great car, terrible in the winter as backend too light so carried a few paving slabs in the boot, inner wings needed repair sections at the bonnet brackets within 3 years but went like stink for the time.
Another great little pocket rocket was the Suzuki Cappuccino from the early 1990's just over 660cc, fun to drive (if slightly cramped for me) but unfortunately suffered from tin worm, had some great fun in one of those, mind you it looked like I was wearing it rather than driving it.
I like the MX5 a little too cramped for my 6 foot plus frame plus the interior is a little cheap looking, but as I'm shrinking over time I may yet fit into one.
