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From: [email protected] (Scott Fisher)
Subject: Re: MGBs and the real world
[email protected] (Derek Tearne) writes:
>>People who bought MGB`s bought them because they were an open topped sportscar
>>and embodied what people thought they should for an old fashioned traditional
>>brit. sportscar - not because they were great at anything.
>Pretty much like the people who buy the Mazda MX-5 (Miata) today. Small
>fun and you can fool yourself (and a lot of other people) that you have the
>performance of many far superior (and much more expensive) performnace cars.
I have been for a fairly hard run in an MX5, what they lack in power they
surely make up for in handling. Great for back streets with heaps of corners.
They are a fairly light car with a low center of gravity and a quite free
revving DOHC engine, a fun car. Have you driven a TURBO converted
MX5? Now they are starting to perform! I've often thought a Mazda rotary
would go well in the XM5 too....anyone done it?
Regards Scott.
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