sports cars

I don't think it's worth rehashing but I did see this on a tv program ... didn't know they existed . 

 

 

 

 

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2004 MazdaSpeed MX-5 Miata

Sports car

 

The 2004 Mazdaspeed Miata falls somewhere in between. Rated at 178hp and 166 lb-ft of torque, it offered buyers 36 additional horsepower and 41 extra lb-ft compared to the standard 1.8L four-cylinder engine.Sep 13, 2018

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I love cars, trucks, Jeeps, boats, ATV's, etc... 

My problem is I tend to get bored once I have modified something to just the way I want it, and then I typically get rid of it and move on to something else I can play with and modify.  

I do consider my MKIII a sports car but I also considered my modified MK1a a sports car as well. 

I think once a vehicle is significantly modified, OEM classifications or descriptions don't fit very well anymore.

In regards to the RX7 I believe the early ones were true to being a sports car. The later ones from the 80s started to be more like a GT car until they made the FD RX7 which is a focused sports car.  Out of the titan performance cars from the 90s only the FD RX7 was the sports car of the bunch and the other three fat GT luxury cars. It is remarkable that Toyota slipped in a true sports car after that era was over that wasn't well received. The general public  use the words sports loosely even calling something like an S class AMG Mercedes a sports car that its meaningless. I think roadster fits the description better.  

@neomr2

Have any pics of your mk1 ?  I still have mine it's just in pieces ....

@phats

Let me search through my old back-ups from my old computer and I will see if I can find a few.  🙂

@phats,

You can just barely make out the facial bones of the MK1 there.  It's interesting, in trying to figure out why I can still recognize it without the rest of the chiseled features, it seems (to me) that it must be the angles of the front and rear windshields.  Even though that's basically all that is left of the MK1 shell, really, that's all it actually takes.  I think that's pretty cool.

<blather alert> I fell in love with the MK1 in 1986 when I was 17 years old.  I never test-drove one, because they wouldn't let me, LOL. But they let me sit in it.  Gee, thanks, "dad" (the stealership salesman).  That was a mistake, because my nice-at-that-time '81 Celica GTA trade-in and my job would have allowed the purchase, even though my parents were also not terribly warm to the idea either.  I think, having a Spyder now, that a stock or near-stock MK1 would be nostalgic as hell, but my guess (again, STILL never having actually driven one) is that it would be pretty underwhelming.  Yours looks like you've done a mod or two, though.

Once the pandemic is over, I think I will get out more.  Get to a track, or a meet, even just a Coffee and Cars, scrape and grovel in my newby-ness and hope someone takes pity on me.  My interest is there, but there is so much for me to learn, still, that half the stuff I read has no context.  For example, what is an A2W?  I Guess it is Air-to-water, a cooling exchange for a supercharger (just guessing), but obviously, Hoogle says it is "The A2W reactor is a naval nuclear reactor used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warships".  How is LT gonna fit THAT in his frunk???

Cool car, Phatts.

Ok...my definition-s;

1. A "sports car" is a 2 seater with a drop top(soft or retracting/removable hard top), or no top at all. A "sports car" can not have 4 seats.

2. Anything else, call it what you want.

$0.02

I cannot afford one. But if I purchased a Porsche 911 I'd pull out all that fake seating in the back.  More luggage space. I was in the back of a 912 once, not a lot of fun.

Car companies want to call their cars 2+2's for insurance purposes. What a joke. Ever seen the back seat of a Lexus RC / LC ? Or a Lotus Evora ? My old VW Beetle had more room in the back!

@phats

Found one...

@neomr2

Man ... that was fast . lol  

I see a trend developing ... you like big wheels and can not lie  ( I think there's a song in there somewhere ) , what are those 18's . I liked the hardtop best but Toyota did a nice job on the sunroof . Mine was the worst with t-tops ... gave me a good reason to cut the top off . I really like the supercharged version that mine had .... need to get it back on the road someday !! Thanks for the picture ...... 

@phats

LOL, 17" wheels. 

I forgot to look and then stumbled across one of my old photo's and then remembered... 

I think I am getting old...  

😴 😜 🤪 

I liked the car a lot, until an Amazon PRIME contract driver took me out and had no insurance for commercial use so I was out of luck getting it fixed or replaced...

You have way too many cars to get on the road, or part out, but I will wait to see what you do with it.  🙂

@neomr2

To bad about the car being taken out that way !!  So do you still buy from Amazon ? lol  

The mk1 started the whole spyder thing for me .... wish I never woulda bought that car . lol

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@neomr2

To bad about the car being taken out that way !!  So do you still buy from Amazon ? lol  

The mk1 started the whole spyder thing for me .... wish I never woulda bought that car . lol

Yes, I am still a Prime member...  ☹️ 

My MK1 did the same for me.  I need to get my Jeep TJ finished and get back into rock crawling though, it used to be my passion before the Spyder.