Yea but you dont get a warranty for that either. Your missing the one pt that matters. Fun to drive aspect. If you've never driven a Miata i encourage you to do so. It is so small and light that you can just toss it anywhere. Cost of ownership is low, insurance low, tires cheap ect.... On given Sunday more mazdas are road raced then any other car. What track records does a miata have? How about most classes at any given track? lolololool

I'd say it has a lot to do with insurance these days. Being a young male in TX = huge insurance premiums. You can take something like an import & make it your own & maybe add a power adder. Deep down most of them want a huge V8 but they're expensive

I have thought about a Miata for a daily...

You couldn't pull it off

Drive one and you will feel like your driving a aircraft carrier when you get back in the stang.

I haven't been able to. I've got a good friend that has a tastefully modded S2000 and he loves boasting about that car. He would never race me in my C5. One day on the way home from work I see him and continue driving. So he speeds up to me on one of the backroads by DFW airport and we nail it from a 35 or 40 roll and left him by like three cars lengths. That's my point. It may be fun on a track but, he never tracks the car. So I just can't see how driving one on the street is fun. When can someone drift through a turn signal lol? If someone were to log the amount of time they spend driving, I'm willing to bet that 98% is done driving on the road and just about as much is used driving in a straight line.

-Alex

Different strokes for different folks.

I figured if I wanted to ride around in a shitty Passat or something, I'd just find some girl with one and have her take me to lunch in it. I wouldn't actually drop coin on a shitbox like that...

I'm not trying to look good in it. It would be a cheap, small, but fun drivers car that I could daily and still haul Tucker around in by easily removing the passenger seat, not only to save weight, but give him more room to fit. LOL

Plus Stephanie would never be caught dead in it, so it's feasible.

Fixed it for you, Danny.

As long as I can blow shit up, I'm happy with driving a boat. :D

ITs the way it connects to the driver. You have to drive one to understand. Power isnt everything. Any fool can spend money and be fast. In the turns especially curvy mtn rds Balance is everything and the Miata is balanced as is most of the MS3 line.
LOL :leghump:

I wasn't going to comment on this subject until the Miata subject came into it. I have a group of high roller friends who are all into autocrossing/track racing. In the group is a couple of lambos, Porsches, a Backdraft Cobra, a Ferrari and few other high end toys. They've been racing together for many years and they all eventually turned to Miatas to race around the track racing the Spec class. They are very quick around the track and a blast to drive.

That being said, everyone one of them have told me that Miatas are complete piles of shit. They are just cheap to fix and mod, but don't expect them to stay together or last very long. It's a running joke about how crappy they are, but these guys rather throw away a fraction of the money replacing shit on the Miatas than the high cost of their expensive rides around the track that see mainly street duty.

Drive daily or be seen in it off the track? Hell no.

Go out and thrash on it for a weekend around a track with other like minded guys then put it away to drive away in a actual cool car to leave the track? Certainly.

That all depends on treatment. Josh has a sick miata. Id rock that bitch all over the place.

I'm sure Dale's will turn out awesome too.

That is a matter of opinion if it's sick or not. His car is a street duty car, he doesn't race it. If he did, it would fall apart like the rest of them do.

If you really want to get down to it, ANY car you take out to track on a regular basis that is going to see extreme abuse is going to take a beating. Some are going to last longer than others. Miatas were designed for 50 year old women for a Sunday afternoon drive and not beating on them around a track. lol

any track car will fall apart and need maintenance. no car is designed to be tracked hard from factory.

Yea thats why they mazdaspeed turbo versions with bigger sways and all.

IF Dale actually gets one(I'm not convinced this isn't some crazy hose job yet lol), I doubt he will have it very long. He is a big dude and very tall. He will have to drop the seat to the floorboard just so he has a chance of being able to see through the windshield. He will most likely have to drive it hunched down to be able to see and be able to ride in it with a hardtop. I doubt very seriously the convertible top will clear his head. lol

Almost everyone I know with a Miata has a second car to drive too. Those who don't have a second car don't seem to keep their Miatas for very long street duty.

In my opinion, driving a modded Miata for daily duties is a step backwards from driving a whored out no manners having foxbody Stang which isn't fun to drive everyday either. It really comes down to what a individual owner can tolerate on a daily basis.

I believe I said that in the second part of my post. lol

dale has one. i dropped him off to get it yesterday

the foxbody was a pile of shit. leaked oil every where, power steering leaked everywhere. suspension needed replacing. etc etc etc.

I fit in the miata. I do need a racing seat for more comfort. gets great gas mileage and once i get some wheels and tires it will make good for a double duty autox / daily driver.

you're a dick steve.

Well he has one now. Picture posted to Facebook last night of both him and Jon sitting in it.

I believe the Miata won the head to head on motortrend. Zoom Zoom bitches.

vs what?

at least we know it will get driven unlike steves car

and it will get auto x. every week.

My car has almost 11k miles on it to show it gets driven thank you very much. lol



The upside of this is, when dicks get drawn all over the Miata it will be appropriate. haha!

Mx5 vs Frs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDYaSwd4mmk

11k mikes for 3 years is jack shit

24k on my 13 and love driving it every time

11k? on a 2012? you're like greg bartos jr. and who's car do you think this is?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ps5ea8debd.jpg

bahahah

having dicks drawn on your car is a sign of love.... at least thats what i tell myself haha had 28 of them on mine

I'm pretty sure Steve, like all of us, knows this already

I bought the car new a year and half ago. I drove it everyday this past weekend including in the gawd damn rain almost wiping the car out on the highway. I drive the car VERY often, I just don't leave my area very much cuz I don't have a need to. I also have a daily driver to haul the kids around in since a Mustang doesn't fit two car seats in the back very well. lol



If you love your car so much, why you buying the Fiesta? lol. Exactly.

heaven forbid it got rain on it...

You've been put on the armbar "to do" list.

Drag radials don't particularly like rain. That was very evident by my wife and I almost smashing into the wall on the highway on the way home...

I don't mind it getting dirty at all cuz it gives me a reason to detail it which I enjoy doing. I don't have to drive it in the rain cuz I have another car.

Driving a Mustang in the rain is like having tits on a nun - pointless.

28500 miles on my car. Loved all of them except when I spun it into a curb last year in a slick intersection during lunch. But I learned by lesson on that, and have definitely learned how to better control the car since then.

I do wish I had another car I could drive from time to time, namely to keep the dog hair out of the Mustang, but oh well.

As long as you know what you are doing.

finally!!!!