2006 mx-5

I just bought a 2006 MX-5 and I have to say I have never enjoyed a car
more..........ZOOM ZOOM

MX-5 wrote:
> I just bought a 2006 MX-5 and I have to say I have never enjoyed a car
> more..........ZOOM ZOOM


Is'nt it fun... I just picked one up on Saturday on a bit of a whim.
It's funny, I was inclined to pick up the new Pontiac but the stealers
around here want 5K over sticker. Well they can stick their sticker -
I ran straight to the Mazda dealer and paid invoice for a fantastic
roadster.

MX-5 wrote:
>
> I just bought a 2006 MX-5 and I have to say I have
> never enjoyed a car more..........ZOOM ZOOM

....two big issues to worry about though: 1.) sunburn's gonna get you,
and 2.) you're apt to smile so much your face muscles get sore.

But after a while the novelty will wear off and you'll get used to it.
Or so I'm told; it's only been six years and three months since I first
drove a Miata, but I expect to get all blase about driving this car any
time now.

Yours WDK -

In article >,
"W. Kiernan" > wrote:

> But after a while the novelty will wear off and you'll get used to it.
> Or so I'm told; it's only been six years and three months since I first
> drove a Miata, but I expect to get all blase about driving this car any
> time now.

Nine years, five months here. Still waiting....

--
Lanny Chambers
'94C, St. Louis
http://www.hummingbirds.net/alignment.html

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:06:25 -0400, pltrgyst wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:02:20 GMT, Lanny Chambers
> > wrote:
>
>>> But after a while the novelty will wear off and you'll get used to it.
>>> Or so I'm told; it's only been six years and three months since I
>>> first drove a Miata, but I expect to get all blase about driving this
>>> car any time now.
>>
>>Nine years, five months here. Still waiting....
>
> 43+ years here since the first Triumph, 15+ since first Miata, still
> waiting...

I've only had my Miata for less than a month. The commute from work is
only 10 miles and by the time I get home I'm in a whole different frame of
mind. Just sitting in it and looking out over the fenders, listening to
those four angry little cylinders, everything about it is great. I love
it.

W. Kiernan wrote:

> But after a while the novelty will wear off and you'll get used to it.
> Or so I'm told; it's only been six years and three months since I first
> drove a Miata, but I expect to get all blase about driving this car any
> time now.
>
> Yours WDK -

My first miata is the only car that I ever made all 48 payments on
without grumbling. It drove better 4 years later than it did when I
bought it.

Not too much longer after being paid off, it commited mutual suicide
with a large deer and was one less '96M on the road.
I have been parting it out slowly and pieces of it are now in about 12
different U.S. states and 5 or 6 other countries, plus I am still using
a number of the parts on my current miata. :-)

Now, with title in hand, the money saved on car payments goes towards
premium gas for the turbo, synthetic oil for the same, and much more
expensive tires before long. It also seems to use much more fuel
whenever I floor it for some reason....

Pat

nothing blase' there eh?!

Pat, there's allot of positive comments on the NC .................maybe
it's time to start up those payments again? ;-)

Chris
99BBB


"pws" > wrote in message
...
> W. Kiernan wrote:
>
>> But after a while the novelty will wear off and you'll get used to it. Or
>> so I'm told; it's only been six years and three months since I first
>> drove a Miata, but I expect to get all blase about driving this car any
>> time now.
>>
>> Yours WDK -
>
> My first miata is the only car that I ever made all 48 payments on without
> grumbling. It drove better 4 years later than it did when I bought it.
>
> Not too much longer after being paid off, it commited mutual suicide with
> a large deer and was one less '96M on the road.
> I have been parting it out slowly and pieces of it are now in about 12
> different U.S. states and 5 or 6 other countries, plus I am still using a
> number of the parts on my current miata. :-)
>
> Now, with title in hand, the money saved on car payments goes towards
> premium gas for the turbo, synthetic oil for the same, and much more
> expensive tires before long. It also seems to use much more fuel whenever
> I floor it for some reason....
>
> Pat

Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
> nothing blase' there eh?!
>
> Pat, there's allot of positive comments on the NC .................maybe
> it's time to start up those payments again? ;-)
>
> Chris
> 99BBB

I think that I want the Spyder. I never liked convertibles until the
miata, and the top is still a negative for most people until it is down,
and it is not as good as a non-fabric top when it is up.
I love driving top-down, but only when it is comfortable, which is about
50% of the time where I live, at least during the daytime.

Baking all day in the hot sun, A/C or not, and driving top-down when it
gets uncomfortably cold are not my thing.
I am now thinking that the folding hardtop would be used quite a bit.
Sure it adds 87 pounds to the car, but I probably weigh about that much
less than the average American anyway. :-)

The only other disadvantage to the folding hardtop that I can see is
that the top color will fade at a slower rate than the rest of the car,
especially if it is left down a lot.
Not a very big deal to me, but maybe something to consider. I would
probably at least wax it more often than the rest of the car.

Pat

pws wrote:

> I would probably at least wax it more often than the rest of the car.
> Pat

Make that, I would probably wax the rest of the car more often than the
folding hardtop. It is late......

Pat

"Carbon" > wrote in message
news
>, listening to those four angry little cylinders,

What a great line You should try a RoadsterSport exhaust, they sound even
angrier.

Jim

2006 MX-5 Sport