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Only the best people own an MX5 at some point in their life! 
What's an open limited-slip differential?
I think he fails at typing. I guess he meant an open differential! FAIL!
Technically and LSD is open until it engages... but yes, typing fail.
My 5 leaves a nice number 11 so I'm pretty sure it has a torsen fitted (1.8 import). Certainly seems to dig in when nailing the throttle mid corner on a dry road. Wet roads I wouldn't recommend it with random Vredestien Hi-Trac tyres on the rear
My 5 leaves a nice number 11 so I'm pretty sure it has a torsen fitted (1.8 import). Certainly seems to dig in when nailing the throttle mid corner on a dry road. Wet roads I wouldn't recommend it with random Vredestien Hi-Trac tyres on the rear
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Just wait until you get to drive it on snow....
Looking forward to it
All joking aside, I won't be doing anywhere near the miles I've been doing recently, as I'm moving tomorrow
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You say that...I said that too and have racked up loads of miles already. 
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That gif is missing....something
You say that...I said that too and have racked up loads of miles already.
In December i'll be off the road for 6/7 weeks
Drove mine through all the heavy snow last winter and a lot of that was on roads that hadn't been cleared or gritted. The only place I got stuck was works car park which had snow very deep.
Of course it was interesting to drive in that weather, but the skinny wheels/tyres compared to most RWD cars means it wasn't much of an ordeal. I certainly fared better than most
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MTFU to be honest.
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Real men don't need surgery, but then you have bought a hairdresser's car. 
Real men don't need surgery, but then you have bought a hairdresser's car.
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Drove mine through all the heavy snow last winter and a lot of that was on roads that hadn't been cleared or gritted. The only place I got stuck was works car park which had snow very deep.
Of course it was interesting to drive in that weather, but the skinny wheels/tyres compared to most RWD cars means it wasn't much of an ordeal. I certainly fared better than most
I had a right hoot driving to work in mine last year, on about 2 inches of snow. It was 5:00am, totally deserted so I spent most of the journey going diagonally up the road. It's a very easy car to control.
The only problem was when I got to a big hill and stalled it halfway up. I had to ditch the car and get rescued after that because any attempt at going forward ended up with me going sideways.
In sensible snow driving it's actually quite good, I had the 1.8 and it holds on in 5th quite nicely.
The car died of rust after that winter, woops.
Given that I'm just about to receive a nice insurance payout, I'll probably be getting the underside undersealed at some point, may as well protect it
Mines a 1.8 import but survived the rust threat thankfully. So easy to drive but passengers are terrified of it. It's a GayMobile FFS!
A quick snap from one of my fond memories of driving it in the snow. I get this early morning apocalypse feeling. Nobody is about, everything is covered in a deep blanket of snow and you end up trying to get the most enjoyment out of a bleak situation. Great fun, shame I'm banned during this winter although that's probably a good thing for the car and onlookers
