Miata Mailing List: October 1997, Message #570
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From: 	"Hodges, Eric" <Eric.Hodges@tckmail.TeleCheck.com>

Subject: RE: Restyled '98 Miata

Date: 	Fri, 3 Oct 1997 15:46:36 +0000







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> From: 	Steve Barr[SMTP:steve@stevebarr.com]

> Sent: 	Tuesday, September 30, 1997 3:58 PM

> To: 	Multiple recipients of list

> Subject: 	Re: Restyled '98 Miata

> 

> Dan Scolnick wrote:

> > I guess they THINK they found a place to put the trunk hump they

> took off

> > the lincolns, too bad it's on a miata.  What's next a VW beetle kit

> for a miata.

> 

> > On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Randolph George wrote:

> > > Here is what he saw:

> > >

> > > Rear trunk lid has a dramatic hump in it

> 

> Anyone else bugged by Mazda repeatedly emphasizing that the new Miata

> will have a trunk capable of holding TWO GOLF BAGS?

> 

> 

Not me.  Driving to a golf course in a Miata with a friend is a definite

joy.  Especially in Japan, where golf is becoming a marial art.  Why

would anyone be bugged by a bigger trunk?





> Oh, yeah, right, I really want the engineers designing my

> sportscar to have MUST FIT TWO GOLF BAGS IN TRUCK as a design

> contraint.  Pul-eezzz...

> 

> 

It seems reasonable to me.  There have to be some sort of design

constraints.  2 golf bags seems just about right.



Eric Hodges

96M "PIZZI-5"