Thats for certain. The Miata's performance surprises a lot of folks
including the BMW Z3 in 2000. It has been my felling that the Miata
is where Donald would have taken his cars today.
Didn't you exceed the towing limit for the Miata with the Holy Sprite.
Got company got to go.
Bob Kitterer
1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise)
1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk III (Trevor) - still in boxes
2000 Miata Special Edition
On Aug 14, 2008, at 5:33 AM, David Lieb wrote:
>> Back in the old days :-) the question was "Is it a Sprite course or
>> a Corvette course?"
>
> Musta bin bout '93 when the local Corvette club was celebrating 40
> years of Vettes. They rented out the asphault track at Lake Geneva,
> WI and invited the Miata club to come up and play. Part of the
> event was an autocross course that they laid out on the track so
> that they could impress the Miatas with how well a "real" car could
> handle. Unfortunately, the second half of the course amounted to a
> high-speed run with a tight gate at the end. Turned out that the
> Vettes had to almost stop for the gate, but the Miatas never
> lifted. The slowest Miata was faster than the fastest Vette on the
> course. The Miatas never got another invitation from the Corvette
> club...
> David Lieb
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