Miata Mailing List: August 1993, Message #111
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   From: sebruun@ihlpe.att.com
Subject: Handling (and Rev Limiters)
   Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 10:20:51 -0400


Jason L Rahaim sez:

Now, if we could take a 93 RX-7 engine
and handling and put it in a Miata....

To which I respond:

Bite your tongue, Jason.  The new RX-7 is twitchy and quite
unforgiving of the mediocre driver's errors.  The Miata has
the best balance and quickest turn-in of any stock car I've
ever driven in twenty years of autocrossing.  Another 100hp
would be fun, sure, but not at the expence of the car's ace
in the hole, it's overall drivability.

And with respect to banging the rev limiter, don't get your
panties in a bunch about it.  I routinely bounce off of it,
usually five or ten times each weekend I solo the car (well
over 60 times in the past four years), and so does the wife
on the weekends she decides to get out of bed and come cone
hunting with me.  That engine is *strong*!

- Steve Bruun