Must be going thru a mid life crisis. Been thinking abt buying a convertible car
Ive always thought Id like a Mazda Miata. Anyone own one and what's your opinion?
Another one Im thinking on..... a bigger car tho... is the convertible Toyota Camry Solara. However I "think" these cars in the convertible version are pretty rare and hard to find....hence more costly. But they do have a back seat I think. Anyone own one of these?
Is comparing these two cars a fair comparison? Or is it apples to oranges?
Let me see if I've got this right. You post on rec.autos.makers.mazda.miata and you ask "Anyone own one and what's your opinion?" What kind of reply do you think you'll get?
You would. They're an addiction, and should have a warning label saying "WATCH OUT! Purchase of this car will alter your life styl;e and change your perception of life."
NAAAH. None of us own one. We're all driving enormous air-conditioned power-assisted 4-wheel-drive gas-guzzling SUVs, discussing Miata stuff on cell-phones while piloting our Ford Sub-Divisions and dreaming a lot
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It's bigger.
Never seen a convertible version.
What do you want a back seat for, eh?
Not me.
No. No similarity at all.
Yup. Majorly. It's more like apples to manatees. Not on the same planet, let alone in the same ballpark.
-- Nora (imagine a Canadian flag here) =======================and the Rollerskate (imagine a '99 gleaming silver Miata here)
Wel, because you are so kindly we will be fair to you. the miata cars are real crap. The desing is just a copy of a lotus . they forgotten a back seat. The powerwindows go slow. You need to put on a charger to go fast. The softtop's wear, and the 'plastic window' cracks when frozen. The suspension is way to stiff. the rear tracktions is dangeres.
Is that really what you want.....NOOOO considering your age take the Toyota .UNLESS you are realy in your mid life crisis and wants to get rid of it.
TM
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I guess Im concerned abt the Miata being my only car.
Im single..... not married..... no kids.... bete even given that will I regret having a Miata as my "only" car?
Supposing I do want to haul something..... say I buy new TV or stereo..... how will I get the boxes home?
Do most of you Miata owners have a small trailer for your vehicle as well?
Im not against owning a Miata.... I actually own a Protege at the moment..... but I want to fully understand what things I may have to deal with if going for a Miata as my only car.
Then perhaps a Miata isn't the car for you. If you've driven one and are still asking these questions, then it probably isn't. If you haven't driven one, then why bother worrying about it until you have?
I have no idea. It's my only car, and I don't regret it. You might. People differ. I even know people who drive big SUVs!
If it's too big for my Miata I have it delivered, or sometimes I trade cars with a friend for the day. Or you can rent a pickup for a day. That said, with the top down, you can haul some pretty big stuff with a Miata. I just hauled a new 19" monitor home from MicroCenter last week.
Don't. I got a 22 inch TV home in my Miata, but only after I took it out of the box. You can probably not go much bigger than that in a Miata, but the limiting factor is as much weight as it is size. That thing was heavy.
The good news is, you can get some loooooooong timber home without piercing the cars behind you.
No. But some do. I do not think it is the sportscar idea. :)
Many experience muscular pain around the mouth. Also, a nasty sunburn is quite likely for the careless.
I keep a little tube of SPF45 in the trunk for those times.
And, the sore facial muscles have returned after the recent installation of a JSRC kit. It's still the great-handling car it was to start with (though some will quibble over M1 vs M2) but the extra HP delightfully takes it from the lower end of the performance envelope and moves it to the top end. Highly recommended.
After the Miata test drive, and all of the paperwork is signed and it's yours, you will, after you stop YEEHAAHHH and yuppppeeee, drive straight to the Toyota dealer to urinate on a Solara. The little cars as previously mentioned are very addictive!!!!!! Be forewarned.
The only car I've ever loved....................................................................... well, I did have a flirtatious affair with a VW Thing........Joe
Very, very nice job of installing at all. Since I don't use my Miata as a primary vehicle or feel like talking on the radio while driving it, it's just never appealed to me. I'm also a little of a fuddy-duddy with respect to having a ground plane between me and the antenna.
I ran a Hustler on a ball-mount in my long-departed Nissan Sentra, though I never ran 80m or 75m (which makes a difference given that two different resonators are required).
I've been tempted as of late to mount an ATAS to my Chevy Monte Carlo and run my FT-847 in it, but not so much to do anything. That car just has an FT-8100R, remoted head and through-glass (!) antenna on the rear.
Partner up with another Miata owner and string a half-wave longwire...or two other Miata owners, and go for a full-wave mobile dipole. You'd make the cover of QST fer shoor.
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