Mazda adds first power hardtop to MX-5 Miata roadster

Slightly "OT" but worth the read.

As a New Englander, I can remember USAF Basic Training in San Antonio, way
too many years ago.

One of the most fun things us N.E'ers + NY'ers did, was to go downtown S.A.
in front of the Davy Crockett
hotel one day when there was some small "snow" (as they called it). It was
such a hoot, they couldn't
even get off from the light when it changed to green. I gotta tell you, To a
manboy, we laughed (and drank
secreted pints of Rum) incessantly, until we literally couldn't laugh no
more. But we were "manboys". As an
adult, I try not to take such pleasure in people's misery anymore.

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"pws" > wrote in message
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> Chris D'Agnolo wrote:
>> That's the way to go Scott! I'm an old yankee so I've got winter (snow)
>> driving experience and when I took my miata back up north at christmas a
>> couple years ago I was amazed. All this rubbish about all 4 snow tires or
>> don't even attempt it, is bs. I had ............... well I don't
>> remember for sure now ....... worst case, Falken Azenis, best case, all
>> season pieces of rubbish but the point being, wonderfully balanced
>> handling in the snow. Nothing more fun than drifting at low and medium
>> speeds (except maybe drifting in someone else's car at high speeds :-).
>>
>> Here in Houston, autocrossing this sunday (probably 40 to 45 degrees F)
>> will be a relatively big 'winter driving challenge' for here .
>>
>> Chris
>> 99BBB
>
> I think that it is funny that the only places I have ever driven in the
> snow are Central Texas and and a near-blizzard in Southern Arizona that
> shut down the highway overnight.
> I have never seen so many 18-wheelers, (and many other vehicles), sitting
> down the embankments where they had come to rest after sliding off the
> road, but amazingly, no major wrecks.
>
> The residents said it was their first snowfall that could really be called
> snow in over 30 years, but I never did verify that.
> It has never snowed that hard here in Austin in at least 32 years, so it
> is not hard to believe.
>
> Pat

ROTFLMAO

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"pws" > wrote in message
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> KWS wrote:
>> One of my colleagues bought a new Volvo with the retractable hardtop. She
>> brought it to work the next day and we had a crowd around it in the
>> afternoon when she demonstrated the "lowering of the top". It was
>> something to behold. We applauded.
>>
>> Ken
>
> Applause? Are you sure that it was her Volvo top that was lowered? :-)
>
> Pat

"Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote:

>Leon, where have you been? Upstate NY or just unusually quiet?

Been under the weather a bit, but there have also not been much threads
that I had much to say about. My knowledge about MI5 is limited.

Leon

>Chris
>99BBB
>
>"Leon van Dommelen" > wrote in message
.. .
>> wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.ng2000.com/news.php?tp=mazda
>>>
>>>It's that time of year when dark clouds and cool winds of winter prompt
>>>owners of the sprightly, two-seat Mazda MX-5 Miata convertible to start
>>>to put away their cars until the following spring.
>>
>> Huh??? I did not even put my MGB away in upstate NY (on all seasons.)
>>
>> Are you weird?
>> Leon
>> --
>> Leon van Dommelen Bess, the Miata Bozo, the Miata
>> http://www.dommelen.net/miata
>> The only thing better than a white Miata is two white Miatas
>
--
Leon van Dommelen Bess, the Miata Bozo, the Miata
http://www.dommelen.net/miata
The only thing better than a white Miata is two white Miatas

Much enhanced now for me

Chris
99BBB

"Leon van Dommelen" > wrote in message
...
> "Chris D'Agnolo" > wrote:
>
>>Leon, where have you been? Upstate NY or just unusually quiet?
>
> Been under the weather a bit, but there have also not been much threads
> that I had much to say about. My knowledge about MI5 is limited.
>
> Leon
>
>>Chris
>>99BBB
>>
>>"Leon van Dommelen" > wrote in message
. ..
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>http://www.ng2000.com/news.php?tp=mazda
>>>>
>>>>It's that time of year when dark clouds and cool winds of winter prompt
>>>>owners of the sprightly, two-seat Mazda MX-5 Miata convertible to start
>>>>to put away their cars until the following spring.
>>>
>>> Huh??? I did not even put my MGB away in upstate NY (on all seasons.)
>>>
>>> Are you weird?
>>> Leon
>>> --
>>> Leon van Dommelen Bess, the Miata Bozo, the Miata
>>> http://www.dommelen.net/miata
>>> The only thing better than a white Miata is two white Miatas
>>
> --
> Leon van Dommelen Bess, the Miata Bozo, the Miata
> http://www.dommelen.net/miata
> The only thing better than a white Miata is two white Miatas

Somebody hurry and buy the PRHT Miata, you can race her to see who can get
topless first, and win every time ............ or would that be losing every
time?

Chris
99BBB

"KWS" > wrote in message
. ..
> One of my colleagues bought a new Volvo with the retractable hardtop. She
> brought it to work the next day and we had a crowd around it in the
> afternoon when she demonstrated the "lowering of the top". It was
> something to behold. We applauded.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
> wrote:
>> http://www.ng2000.com/news.php?tp=mazda
>>
>> It's that time of year when dark clouds and cool winds of winter prompt
>> owners of the sprightly, two-seat Mazda MX-5 Miata convertible to start
>> to put away their cars until the following spring.
>>

> wrote in message
ups.com...
> http://www.ng2000.com/news.php?tp=mazda
>
> It's that time of year when dark clouds and cool winds of winter prompt
> owners of the sprightly, two-seat Mazda MX-5 Miata convertible to start
> to put away their cars until the following spring.

Say what? In the 11-1/2 years I've owned her, my Miata has never been put
away for the winter here in eastern Pennsylvania.


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