Miata Mailing List: May 1994, Message #52
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   From: jwa@yog-sothoth.dcrt.nih.gov (James W. Adams)
Subject: Re: Obsessed Owners
   Date: Tue, 3 May 1994 10:25:48 -0400

>     	I always thought of it as a rather frivolous car, and someone 
>     rational wouldn't buy one (who wants to be rational about their car, 
>     anyway)

In defense of the Miata, it is a profoundly practical vehicle for
personal transportation in dense urban areas.  Try parallel-parking a
Suburban in downtown DC!  ...or that last space at the Park-and-Ride,
for you ecologians.

I think owners of sports cars are not all obsessed (mine has a 2-tone
color scheme from dirt below the midline).  Many are simply interested
in the function of an automobile as a device for negotiating road
conditions in an optimal fashion, and want one which accurately
translates driver inputs and provides valid feedback.

ObPracticality:  Ever notice how folks with larger, "practical" vehicles
always seem to transport large quantities of resident junk? I can't
begin to count the number of times I've tried to put something in
someone's trunk, only to find it filled with "resident" materials which
have been in there for months on end (beach supplies in the winter, to
give an example).