Well, Pat (PWS) has mentioned a couple of times that only a small handful of folks hang out on this group these days. While I'm not usually inclined to try to prove him wrong, on this particular issue, I would love to. Would everyone who see's this message, please reply with CITY, STATE (and COUNTRY / PROVINCE if outside the USofA)? I'd like to compile the info and post it here for everyone to see. Hopefully the high volume posters (you know who you are!) along with the occasional posters and even the "just lurking around" crowd will reply. I'm thinking this could be not only fun but educational in some way (could it make some of us American actually look at the globe ;-) It could happen!I'll start it by throwing Sugar Land, TX (sw Houston) into the ring. Come on, let's see how far and wide our conversations go!Chris99BBB

No, absolutely NOT! That's private information and I've no intention of letting you lowlife Miata drivers know I'm in Phoenix, Arizona and have a 1992 white Miata.See what I mean about low lifes? You probably drink Lone Star and think it's beer, what's worse, you probably root for the DullAss Cowpies. See how you are?

Mazda clearly wanted to eliminate the 'Miata' name in the US, but after just one year they seem to have given up as evident by the 2008 models on the MazdaUSA web site once again being called the "MX-5 Miata." of car names, did you hear this weeks puzzler on Click and Clack? Name three cars that are named with plural nouns. I can only think of the Daihatsu Applause (assuming that applause is the plural of applause). Any other ideas?

Where are you and your Miata?

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Dana Myers 18 years ago

Heh. Shame on me, but, take heart, it'll be wet, gray and chilly here soon enough (though apparently not this week).

Unfortunately, I had enough chores to do this morning that I didn't get started riding until almost noon, and had a flat less than a mile from the house! Rather than messing with a patch, I walked back and swapped-in a new tube, but this made my departure even later. On top of that, I had to be back earlier than I'd hoped for a relative's birthday dinner, so it made for a relatively short ride today - just 38 miles / 2,000 feet total climb in about 2.5 hours.

If the weather forecast is accurate, I may be able to do the 70-mile ride I want on Friday - I'll need it after Thursday :-)

This summer, I drove my Miata a lot less because I was riding a lot more, but it makes me really appreciate the time I do drive the Miata.

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Richard Phillips 18 years ago

Wasn't it actually called the MX-5 Miata in North America anyway? I understand Miata is just what it's commonly refered to as over there? I seem to recall reading that the NC is now just MX-5 and they have dropped the Miata bit, so they could call it MX-5 everywhere (not sure about Japan though)?

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Iva 18 years ago

You betcha - I contacted all the PA Miata folks that I know and told them to post here. ;-D

Actually if I'd really done that, there'd be a whole lot more than 5!

Iva & Vixen

2004 Classic Red No more winkin' Miata

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McMahon 18 years ago

please reply with CITY, STATE (and COUNTRY

Santa Monica, CA ... U S of A

-- Steve McMahon Green '07 Sport

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Christopher Muto 18 years ago

Mazda clearly wanted to eliminate the 'Miata' name in the US, but after just one year they seem to have given up as evident by the 2008 models on the MazdaUSA web site once again being called the "MX-5 Miata."

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of car names, did you hear this weeks puzzler on Click and Clack? Name three cars that are named with plural nouns. I can only think of the Daihatsu Applause (assuming that applause is the plural of applause). Any other ideas?

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Leon van Dommelen 18 years ago

Most likely. Many of these people would not, of course, drive white Miatas. Here in Florida we prefer quality over quantity.

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Chris D'Agnolo 18 years ago

. Here in Florida we prefer quality over quantity.

Interesting thought from a guy with 2 Miatas ;-)

Chris

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Chris D'Agnolo 18 years ago

Hey Steve, happy to have you weigh in! That puts CA at 4 with TX. Hopelessly trailing both PA and the U.K.!

Thanks, Chris

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George Jetson 18 years ago

2006 Galaxy Gray MX-5 Sport 6MT, LSD.

Rural Iowa, nearest town, Keystone.

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Richard Phillips 18 years ago

Treating the UK as a state is probably giving us an unfair advantage mind, Chris! Though seeing as it's a US-based newsgroup, things are probably evened up a bit ;)

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Richard Phillips 18 years ago

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Speaking of car names, did you hear this weeks puzzler on Click and> Clack? Name three cars that are named with plural nouns. I can only> think of the Daihatsu Applause (assuming that applause is the plural> of applause). Any other ideas? I suppose once a name gets into the public domain, it's hard to backtrack. I suppose it's the same as if Coca-Cola wanted to stop people using the term Coke?!

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Invisible Man 18 years ago

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Speaking of car names, did you hear this weeks puzzler on Click and Clack? > Name three cars that are named with plural nouns. I can only think of the > Daihatsu Applause (assuming that applause is the plural of applause). Any > other ideas?

Chelmsford, Essex, UK where it is raining right now. Got a Blue 2.0 Coupe. The top is slower than a manual rag top to put up when it rains unexpectedly but it does mean we don't have to be quite so careful where we park.

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Leon van Dommelen 18 years ago

They are both white!

Leon

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Brian 18 years ago

San Antonio, TX

1990 Red - Turbocharged

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Jack McGann 18 years ago

I've been so puzzled, I'm going to turn it into a thread!!

"Christopher Muto" > Speaking of car names, did you hear this weeks puzzler on Click and Clack?

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McMahon 18 years ago

Yeah, but ... I'm on my *2nd* Miata. Does that give The Golden State 5?

-- SM

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Werner B. 18 years ago

Antwerp, Belgium (Europe, if you need to ask...)

Black 1.6 1998 MX-5 NB

Occasional visitor of this group

Werner B.

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Iva 18 years ago

Well, if you get to count your 2nd Miata, then so do I - and that gives PA 6!

Iva & Vixen

2004 Classic Red No more winkin' Miata

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Chris D'Agnolo 18 years ago

So you're saying that you prefer both quality AND quantity!

not bad if you can get it!

Chris

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Chris D'Agnolo 18 years ago

George Jetson / Galaxy Gray! You didn't think you could just slide that one thru from out there in rural Iowa did you ;-)

#1 f/ Iowa! Chris

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