> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Jim Carlile
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 2:04 PM
> To: William Elliott; IPM Return Requested
> Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Nostalgic Design
>
> I like Mazdas, but the Miata?? I don't get it. It's so apparently
> inferior to a 'B' that it seems unarguable.
I probably shouldn't get suckered into this conversation....
Let me say this with the caveat that I love my MGB, I just understand it's
limitations...(I've also never owned a Miata)
Let's start with real world stuff.....
(this is based on the cartest app, with data for a '96 miata and a '67 MGB
GT)
Miata quarter mile = 16.3 @ 84mph
MGB quarter mile = 19.3 @ 73mph
Miata 0-60/0-100 = 8.5/23.7
Miata 0-60/0-100 = 13.4/49.1
1 lap of watkins glen Miata = 2:56.9 MGB=3:36.2 (39.3 second
difference)
The Miata also passes 1990s crash tests, emmissions tests, gets better gas
mileage (at least better than my MGB), the hood takes 5 seconds to erect
instead of 5 minutes, has integrated A/C, less marginal electrical system,
Let's see... what else.... My point is, "it's so apparently inferior"...
give me a break. Take a look at the latest Solo II times at the National
Tour Solo II event in College Station Texas (http://www.scca.com). On the
wide open courses they use out there, the Miata's were only fractions of a
second behind the fastest Corvette (fastest stock autocrossers are either C4
'vettes or RX-7 twin turbos) and the fastest Miata would have been second in
SS (fastest stock class).
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