[silenced_trope]

He was making a joke.

> I read this as "person, 35-ish, stuck in a rut" which is a situation so common that automakers engineer cars like the Mazda Miata specifically for people in it.

This refers to people going through a "mid life crisis" who end up buying a Mazda Miata convertible to drive around town in an effort to look young, cool, stylish, etc.

[watermelon59]

Goodness, I totally misread the post lol. I somehow read it as “Mazda has a process to help their engineers deal with that.”

[kelseyfrog]

Presumably, some of the engineers going through midlife crisis can buy the cars they work on. :D