Miata Mailing List: December 1998, Message #12

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At 12:54 AM 12/1/98 -0500, Jeff Holbrook wrote:
*snip*
>5.. Former School Bus Driver (Probably not as high performance as the bus
Dans drives!!! )

My bus probably isn't that high performance, being as it's normally
aspirated, but it is high tech!  (:

/^\dans


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>Jeff
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>Jeff and Diane Holbrook (jeffholbrook@acm.org)
>91A - Red
>San Antonio, Texas
>Bluebonnet Chapter of the MCA
>Member Miata Club of America (MCA)
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>Life is a Miata--Drive it up!
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>On Monday, November 30, 1998 7:55 PM, John Freas  wrote:
>> Previously on Occupational survey, Jeff Gehrig <miata@bigpond.com> said, 
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>> >        Prejudiced maybe but the prejudice is tempered with 7 years
>> driving
>> > an M1 so I feel qualified to make the judgement, the M2 is vastly
>> superior
>> > in all circumstances and a much safer car on a very long journey, much
>> > quieter in the cabin, therefore less tiring.
>> 
>> I guess I really need to drive Jeff's car.  Are they doing something
>> different to the '99s in the Pac Rim?  It might be the smog devices and
>> crappy California gas, but while RAR III was a fine automobile (emphasis
>> on was :)  it was not so stunningly brilliant that I would trade an M1 for
>> it.  Yes it was somewhat peppier, yes it felt pretty tight, but in most
>> measurable ways it was just a Miata.  As to quieter, I can't begin to
>> imagine what Jeff's talking about, wind noise is wind noise, and the M2
>> ain't any different, and I can now officially say that the absence of
>> headrest speakers is a BIG loss on the M2.
>> 
>> Still, when I got home and climbed into my humble '90 base model I
>> expected to feel a big difference.  Surprise, I didn't.  It pulled
>> strongly, maybe not quite as strongly, but darn close, turned in quickly
>> and precisely and didn't rattle going over the odd bump.  Now you can say
>> "yes, but John, you are running advanced timing, have a high perf.
>> alignment, sway bars, chassis braces and good tires", and I will say yes,
>> and a cloth top with a glass window (which I seldom see) for about $14K
>> USD less than a new M2.  Not worth the trade if you ask me.
>> 
>> Wait, I know what it was!  I took my Voodoo knob with me to LS2.  NO
>> WONDER the cars felt the same, everybody knows /that's/ where all the
>> performance comes from!  :)
>> 
>> 	-John
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>> John Freas (jfreas@earthlink.net)
>> Red '90 Base-ish #7690
>> Birmingham, AL
>> Team LS1,2, SP, the Gap...
>> Team dlralt, PBC, Roebuck, Voodoo...
>> "I have no idea what those dimple things on the windshield frame are for."
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