Miata Mailing List: February 1996, Message #160
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   From: Mx5mike@aol.com
Subject: Fwd: Miata knocking (fwd)
   Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 11:13:35 -0500

I just thought that I would share the kinds of things that my spies report
are being discussed on the Triumph list.  I got a big kick out of this.  It
probably was not very mature of me, but I posted a reply to this back to the
Triumph guys.  Feel free to do the same or just laugh at their foolishness...

Mike Pablo
94 base
Capital Chapter

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Forwarded message:
From:	jbillin1@osf1.gmu.edu (Joshua T Billingsley)
To:	Mx5mike@aol.com (Mike Pablo)
Date: 96-02-02 22:48:41 EST



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 22:41:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Steve L. Toth 
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Miata knocking

Hey all,

  What's all of this talk of a Miata being so great?  I have had the
opporyunity
(not all that pleasurable, I might add), of driving a Miata around town and
country for a day.

   I was not impressed.  Fuel injection?  Big deal.  You can't even tell
it's running!  Independant rear. Yeah, so.   Really, not much better than
my TR250's.

   I know that this was a comparison to the TR4 and the MGB.

   First of all, The Miata is 90's technology.  Higher quality steel, etc.

   Secondly, it has no character!  It looks like the cookie-cutter shape of
nearly every car in production right now!

   Finally, it has no "balls"!  1.6L, Wow!  This car can't even get out of
it's
own way!  Mild handling and not much more cargo space than a TR.

   These cars shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath, much less
compared!  I get really ripped when Miata owner's or fans brag about it
being some great sports car.  I eat them for breakfast anytime...anywhere.


   Enough said.
                                The Yellow Bullet

"Can't drive 55!"
 68TR250 CD915L