I also think it's simple PMP.
if you aren't yearning for the experiences you had in the Sprite, the old driving techniques. If you're not looking to find that as you get to know the car you actually improve your skills. If you don't want to experience universal love from other road users (invariably letting you out etc) and passers by. If you don't want to be accosted by old men telling you they had one once, it was the best and worst car they ever owned and they wish they still had it, if you don't want to have a car that you can arrive anywhere in classless fashion, if you don't want to come back to your car to find a gaggle of admirers standing round it...even if it's parked in a row of Ferraris and Porsches and Mercs..if you don't want a car that looks just as good dirty as sparkling clean...finally, if you don't want a car that you unconsciously pat as you put it away.....
Then a trad is not for you.
A cx model shares some of these characteristics.
Nick
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