Mazda Miata: Aug Car and Driver MX-5 Spy Photo

ya, ROUGH!

It wouldn't surprise me though if Mazda borrowed some RX-8 family
resemblance. They've got it through the rest of the family! At least Mazda
has so far maintained family resemblance and not just cloning all it's cars
and adjusting the scale factor up and down. Volkswagen / Audi has almost
completely made it's cars generic 'Audi / VW' You can't mistake them for
other brands too much but you can hardly tell them apart!

Sorry to rant,
Chris
92BB&T

"Mike Gortych" <net> wrote in message
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"Chris D'Agnolo" <net> writes:
 

There is a small photo in the August Road and Track too. Page 49. Just
looks like a white Miata with an RX-8 nose super glued on the
front. The blurp said the car will be slightly larger and more
powerful since it's built on the RX-8 floorpan. I'm hoping they
redesign the top with a solid boot or something that folds similar to
the MR-S and Z4. In this day and age do we really need those snap on
top covers??

--
Scott Streeter
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Scott Streeter <wpi.edu> wrote:
 

That figures. The Miata was already much larger than the 60s
British sports cars, so the thing to do is obviously to make it
even bigger. Which also means heavier. Put in a big engine to
deal with all this bulk, give it an ugly contemporary Ford face,
and tell the dealers it is not competing with the Ford Mustang.
 

In this day and age, do we still need Miatas?

--
Leon van Dommelen Bozo, the White 96 Sebring Miata .)
To reply to me, the word Miata must be in the subject.
EXIT THE INTERSTATES (Jamie Jensen)

To offset this bit of news: Lotus is finally selling a US version of the
Elise. That is certainly a move in the right direction!

Ken

"Leon van Dommelen" <net> wrote in message
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That's old news... A friend at work has money down on one. See if he
even gets it....

"KWS" <com> writes:
 

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"Mike Gortych" <net> wrote in
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it's obviously disguised using readily available 8 parts. Anybody that
thinks this is what it will look like is really funny..........

"KWS" <com> wrote:
 

Actually, I had already seen it yesterday when checking caranddriver.com.
My two biggest concerns about it are:

1) Did they *have* to make it so gadful ugly? It is worse than
an S 2000, though I don't know whether the doors will be over
your ears like in that car. There *was* a time that Lotus
turned out some good looking cars. Emma Peel's Elan, my
father's Europa spring to mind.

2) Bozo *is* getting older and less reliable, mostly due to all the
aftermarket stuff. But I really wonder, is a brand new Elise any
more reliable than a Miata who has seen 122k highly abusive miles,
who has run with an aftermarket supercharger for 118k, and who has
had countless parts replaced by aftermarket stuff, much of it by a
highly talented, but amateur mechanic? Somehow, the obvious "yes"
answer does not seem that obvious to me. Doubts nag.

I am really thinking the best would be to try to find a mint condition
white 95. I just can't imagine getting all the tons of aftermarket
stuff re-installed.

Anyway, Bozo still seems reliable enough to allow any decision to be
postponed for a looong time. )

Leon
 

--
Leon van Dommelen Bozo, the White 96 Sebring Miata .)
To reply to me, the word Miata must be in the subject.
EXIT THE INTERSTATES (Jamie Jensen)

In article <com>,
net (Leon van Dommelen) wrote:
 

No way, Leon. I mean, can you even IMAGINE driving an Elise to Alaska??!
The Toyota engine will probably be OK, if not up to Mazda standards, but
the rest of the car is English. Stuff will fall off.

--
Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
'94C
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