Mazda MX-5: Week One Impressions

Robbie G said:
Interesting how the new car haters keep their traps firmly shut when it's Housey doing the buying.
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Are you suggesting that Housey is drowning in a finance deal he will probably be unable to pay back on a car that will be worth a small fraction of the total payment? I think you must be, since that is the primary argument made against buying new cars on here, and quite justifiably IMO.

If you are in a position to comfortably afford a new car without sacrificing other aspects of your life, then I can't imagine anyone has a problem with that.

Maybe other people should keep their traps shut before making silly posts...
 
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Dogbreath said:
Are you suggesting that Housey is drowning in a finance deal he will probably be unable to pay back on a car that will be worth a small fraction of the total payment? I think you must be, since that is the primary argument made against buying new cars on here, and quite justifiably IMO.

If you are in a position to comfortably afford a new car without sacrificing other aspects of your life, then I can't imagine anyone has a problem with that.

Maybe other people should keep their traps shut before making silly posts...
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Your post fails on so many levels that I can't be arsed to grace it with a sensible reply.
 
I think that's the garage my gf's dad bought his from Housey :) Your opinion pretty much echos my feelings after having driven one for a few hours.

Good choice on the hard top, it was my get out of hassle free card when it came to the salesman after driving a soft top mx5, at 6'4 the softtop bars intruded into my skull :p The hard top didn't as I found after going out in my gf's dad's, and they didn't have a hard top in at the time for me to try :D There's not much a salesman can counter to argue with the negative "i don't fit".

My opinion for me was that it was a great car if you could live with the power levels, which is why we're looking to get one for my girlfriend (although it will be a mk2 or 2.5) as it's more than ample piower for her expectations, but like yourself, perhaps a tad slow as is but still amazing fun. If only they did a supercharged model, it'd actually get me interested as a main car!

I also agree about the body roll, it was the one thing that confused me getting back into my wafty saloon that it had less. Hopefully you'll be able to sor it :)

Tom.
 
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Robbie G said:
Interesting how the new car haters keep their traps firmly shut when it's Housey doing the buying.

Nice car Housey, I'm sure it'll give you a great deal of pleasure.
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I think Housey is in a different finical situation to the norm. Plus you never see him moaning, or grumping on the forum - which makes his threads a bit of a delight.

Plus some one has to buy them so us poorer guys can buy them 10 years down the line :p
 
I'm out of the loop, didn't realise you bought one. Fruity.

Enjoy it chief, hope the missus gets a look in.
 
hurfdurf said:
Do you think it would benefit from a supercharger?
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I suspect it would as it's not that quick really but don't think that's the point when you think about it. I don't expect to touch the engine, if I wanted more power we would have gone another route.
 
Housey said:
I suspect it would as it's not that quick really but don't think that's the point when you think about it. I don't expect to touch the engine, if I wanted more power we would have gone another route.
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I agree when the roads are clear, it has more than enough power to be fun as momentum can be kept up nicely, but the one thing that always spoils it for me in slower but more fun cars is when you come accross anything remotely resemblying other road users on country roads....if there is more than 1 or 2 cars you've not got the oomph to get past them on the short-ish straights that the roads I frequent have.
 
rG-tom said:
I agree when the roads are clear, it has more than enough power to be fun as momentum can be kept up nicely, but the one thing that always spoils it for me in slower but more fun cars is when you come accross anything remotely resemblying other road users on country roads....if there is more than 1 or 2 cars you've not got the oomph to get past them on the short-ish straights that the roads I frequent have.
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That's the only thing that annoys me with my MX5 if im honest. Needs a little more power to make overtaking possible in smaller straights. Shame they didn't release the mx5 that they did in USA, they did a turbo mk2 with 178bhp, and should spin up nice and quick as its a small turbo.
 
I took it for a harder run today as it closes on it's first 1000 miles, allowing myself to take it to 6000rpm (red line is 7200). Cracking fun, still not fast but it does pull better, much better actually with revs and makes an OK noise too for a 4 cylinder, though it's no S2000 on that front. It most definitely needs some geo work as it still has some vagueness to it and that will be dialled out quite easily but there is little question these are cracking fun cars, making 80mph feel like 140mph in my RS4, which I think is the real point of MX-5's. Fantastic day for drop top car too, really had a smile on my face when I went cross country. Reality is the RS4 would have vanished into the distance across the same roads, seriously MILES quicker than the MX-5 but amazingly I think the little Mazda is more fun, which I know sounds odd but it just is.

Very clever little cars and Mazda has built and I am pleased to say continue to build a truly epic little sports car, from the old school but really fantastic fun. Happy with my purchase......though a GT3 is a MASSIVE level on in terms of feel, MX-5 is great but a GT3 is top of the draw when it comes to feedback, steering on the MX-5 is lovely, steering on the GT3 was and is, quite simply, the best I have ever driven as a comparison and it's not until you drive something that really is very good you realise what defines brilliance.
 
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