Miata Mailing List: September 1999, Message #484

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Must be a good friend to have just picked it up and hand over the keys.

I'll back you up, it is Fathers Day here. Maybe it's called something else
in the US ;)

Matt.


> Matt, I'll be recording that of course, at the same time, I'll be poking
> around in one, friends took delivery yesterday, pity he won't be home for
> Fathers Day on Sunday, he's in Belgium but we'll enjoy it for him! I'll
need
> some convincing that it's worth $30k more than an MX5.
>   Now all I need is for some Moron to come back and say that it isn't
> Fathers Day, it IS HERE!
>  BTW, Through the Gears on Foxtel was supposed to be testing the MX5
> yesterday, it's held over until next week, all part of the MOTOR Magazine
> "Bang for your Bucks" article.
>
> Jeff Gehrig
> MX5 Club NSW #169
> '99 Grace Green
> Oz TeamVoodoo
> Team Grandpa
> http://mx5.com.au/nsw
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Apsilon <apsilon@weitech.com.au>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <miata@list.miata.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 6:20 PM
> Subject: Re: R&T Reviews a Japanese Spec. S2000
>
>
> I saw a picture of an SLK in Sydney with the top down once. Does that
count?
>
> Didn't the original press release in Japan have an MX-5, Z3 and Boxster
all
> at the same track for the journos to drive before they got a chance to
drive
> the S2000? Honda at least recognise the MX-5 to some extent.
>
> For any Australians on the list (or at least Sydney siders, others check
> your local guides as they say) Drive Time on 10 will have an S2000 review
> this weekend.
>
> Matt.
> '94 Laguna Blue Clubman
> T28BB Turbo Terror
> MX5 CLUB of NSW #582 Australia
> http://apsilon.weitech.com.au
>
>
> > Johan, I'd take the Honda ($70k) and have $35k left to play with, almost
> > enough for a '99 MX5! The SLK does nothing for me, they seem to have
lost
> > the plot, the A Class looks like it should have privacy screens and a
> toilet
> > paper dispenser, not to mention Moose Radar and at the top end is the
low
> > flying Webber model of Le Mans fame. I still can't believe that Mark was
> the
> > driver of both cars that took off.
> >   Honda see the S2000 as a Z3/Boxster competitor I would think, I doubt
> > whether any manufacturer would consider the SLK as a competitor for
> > anything, it's just there and sells to a very limited clientele, now
> there's
> > a car that I have never seen with the roof down, in our climate? Even
Z3s
> > here have their roof down. Boxsters on the other hand, never have them
up!
> >
> > Jeff Gehrig
> > MX5 Club NSW #169
> > '99 Grace Green
> > Oz TeamVoodoo
> > Team Grandpa
> > http://mx5.com.au/nsw
> >
> >
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