Is the MX5 the new Mondeo?

There is some irony in being told we're all narrow minded lemmings by someone seemingly just as narrow minded as he perceives us.

The collective experience here will probably outweigh most single marque and biased forums when it comes to recommendations. Many don't follow the advice and buy what they want, that's what I have. For most peoples budget and requirements the Mondeo and MX-5 just happen to be very fitting. Thats not to say it's what the person wants though.

If anyone just takes the forums word as gospel and buys without seeing or test driving, that's their mistake. Usually people post to get reassurance that their looking at the right cars according to their needs and want peoples real world experience of them. For that, this forum is invaluable.

Now, please excuse me, my green haired mates are running off this cliff and I'm running late.
 
It's the same on other all-make forums. PH is MX5 crazy as well. Are they all lemmings?

No, it's just the best entry level sports car so of course it's going to get recommended the most. Whilst a lot of car stuff is opinion some of it is pretty fundamental and therefore most people will tend to agree on many aspects.
 
It has excellent raw ingredients and is in the main well screwed together and reliable. It's not fast by any sensible metric, but that's really missing the point. Get one on a nice twisting road, one that's been fettled properly and you can see why those who own them like them. Lovely steering, if slightly to sharp on the current model, great brakes and a very forgiving chasis with a ride set up to roll rather than stay straight. The grip levels are not massive either but when those grip levels go away it flatters the driver with an incredibly benign character that makes sideways driver a real joy. Engines are weak spot, sounding pretty crap and not really fizzing as you could but overall great fun.

Simple ingredients really, not perfect, not ultimately quick or sharp like it could be but very safe and with lovely fun handling. That is what people buy them for and though the S2000 is much quicker and much more challenging it's steering from the couple I have driven could learn a lot from the MX5. Engine kills the Mx5 mind...
 
Dup said:
There is some irony in being told we're all narrow minded lemmings by someone seemingly just as narrow minded as he perceives us.
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Perceives us? So you took my generalistic comment personally? I wonder why?


[TW]Fox;19386302 said:
It's the same on other all-make forums. PH is MX5 crazy as well. Are they all lemmings?
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I think you've taken my comment and done you're very best to turn it into an argument which is to be expected by you and your army of Fox friendly followers. I have already said that the comment isnt specific to the MX5 but you have totally ignored that for the sake of causing an issue because lets be honest, you have nothing better to do with your time.

My comment was made because its true, this thread wouldnt exist if it wasnt, certain people post certain things to fit in with certain other people, anyone who cant see that is generally one of those people from reading the responses to my comment from the people who seem so upset about it
 
Nope, I bought my car using my own research alone and it was the only car that fit my requirements anyway after letting my CTR go. I also very rarely contribute to spec me threads, so I hardly fit the generalisation to take it any way personally.

The only reason this thread exists because it's a running joke or musing that most people end up getting the same cars around here. I suppose the fact we're mostly like minded people that are around the same age group, going up the vehicle ladder so to speak, says a lot more than just wanting to fit in.

Most people here are friends online/offline away from the forum in some manner and I suppose others feel threatened and start having a go. I don't care what tyres people fit, I don't care what car they buy but if I feel my advice is worthy of contributing I will, regardless of the fact that advice follow everybody else's thus far.
 
Relentless81 said:
I think you've taken my comment and done you're very best to turn it into an argument which is to be expected by you and your army of Fox friendly followers. I have already said that the comment isnt specific to the MX5 but you have totally ignored that for the sake of causing an issue because lets be honest, you have nothing better to do with your time.

My comment was made because its true, this thread wouldnt exist if it wasnt, certain people post certain things to fit in with certain other people, anyone who cant see that is generally one of those people from reading the responses to my comment from the people who seem so upset about it
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Haha stick it to the man! :D
 
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Sin_Chase said:
A stressed unit is something like an Evo FQ400 with a stupid-low service interval.
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To be fair the service intervals are low due to an enforced oil and AYC fluid change, not because the engine is necessarily stressed. Duty of care and all that.

The 4G63 is an incredibly strong engine in stock form, with a bulletproof bottom end that is kept stock even in rally applications. As is the block - it will also laugh at silly horsepower.

I'd usually agree with your comments as generally stock pistons and rods would be the weaker components, however, you've picked a bad example being that the FQ400 has uprated forged Omega pistons and HKS forged rods out of the box. It's an all round strong package.

Just clearing up misconceptions - just as you are ;)

For what it's worth, the F20C is probably my favourite Honda engine along with the C32B. Great power, incredibly strong out of the box, with an awesome gearbox.
 
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Fair enough on the FQ400, it was the first thing that popped into my head having a silly low service interval! :D Seems it's had a fair amount of work done over the lesser models.

Despite appearing to be rock solid it would be comparably harder to live with from a service interval point of view compared to an S2000.

The only thing I can really think of as being highly stressed are race engines, the kind that need rebuilding after one race. THAT is a highly stressed engine.
 
It's a matter of semantics really down to what your perception of "stressed" is. at the end of the day, both the F20C and 4G63 both have a very high bhp/litre for their aspiration types and based on that you could argue they are relatively stressed.
 
The MX5 does get recommended a lot. Mainly because MK1 & MK2 versions are cheap, fun and sporty.

BTW hurfdurf your constant use of GIFs for replies is going to get you a suspension for spamming if you keep it up.
 
How cheap can you pick an mx5 for now then. My prelude has to go in a few months as its gonna cost a bomb to get it through an mot and it costs me too much to run. Really want to downgrade to an eg5 civic as i have loads of parts on my old one which is dead bit then started thinking about an mx5 as there's a lack of the civic I want on the net for sale
 
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