Miata Mailing List: February 1995, Message #90
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   From: SAMUEH01@MCRCR6.MED.NYU.EDU
Subject: Re: MR2 vs. Miata
   Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 08:47:57 -0500

Several have commented on the unstable rear end of the Mr2 (second
generation), particularly for the less experienced driver.  I think
that Toyota may have corrected this problem by a rear suspension
design for the 93 or 94 year.  What is interesting about the problem is
that it tells us much about the honesty and reliability of the U.S.
Car Mags (Car and Driver, Motor Trend, Road and Track etc.).  None of
them mentioned this problem when the second generation Mr2 came out. 
However, both CAR and Performance Car in the U.K. criticized the rear
suspension and the tendency to swing out suddendly when the second
generation first came out.  In spite of this, the U.S. Mags never 
commented on this until Toyota changed the rear suspension several
years later.  Then they said that the new susp[ension geometry solved 
a problem which they never first commented on.

Herb Samuels