As much as I'd like to reccommend it, granny is better off with the minivan!

Although, I must say that a friend of mine's 60 yr old mom has a 95 that she
only recently traded off for a PT cruiser.(yeah, yeah.. I know.... At least
she got the TURBO PT !)

Besides everthing else, just the fact that the car sits on the ground she'd
probably need a crane to follow her around to get out of the thing!

Let it go.!

"tonyrama" > wrote in message
...
> I was out and about today and I went down into a wholesale lot looking for
a
> vehicle for my mother, and what did I see but an M1! I couldn't believe
they
> had one there, so I pulled in to see it. It's a '95, it looked green under
> the lights but the guy there said it was blue, it had a tan top with black
> interior, power windows, power antenna, newish rubber on nice alloys,
> automatic tranny. When I saw it was automatic I didn't look over it much
> longer, but I almost had her convinced when I got home that it was a
viable
> buy for a winter car. The price on it was $3600, but they guy said they'd
> probably take $2500. It's not inspected, and the tag on the window said it
> was because of the directionals, and the drivetrain, whatever that means.
>
> So my questions are these: First, what could be wrong in a Miata
drivetrain
> that would negate a sticker? Second, I know that a lot of people here
drive
> their Miatae in the snow, but my mother is the little old ganny in a
minivan
> type. More of a point and steerer than a driver, what's the likelyhood
that
> she'd get herself into more trouble with a Miata than a FWD minivan? With
> decent snowtires, of course, but she drives 50-60 miles a day round trip
to
> work, and needs something she can count on to get through New England
> winters. What do you all think?
>
> Tonyrama
>
>