Days Like This Make You Realise Scoobies Are Not Actually The Best!
19 March 2005, 07:51 PM
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Days Like This Make You Realise Scoobies Are Not Actually The Best!
Took the MX5 out .......................
Buy one - you will not look back!
36mpg - annual services - nowt goes wrong - fun, fun, fun
Keep the Scooby for the real work - but get a fun car!
Pete
Buy one - you will not look back!
36mpg - annual services - nowt goes wrong - fun, fun, fun
Keep the Scooby for the real work - but get a fun car!
Pete
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19 March 2005, 08:07 PM
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Originally Posted by kingofturds
guess it beats the scoob in this weather scooby and aircon on= no fookin petrol
19 March 2005, 10:21 PM
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The MX5 is a great little runabout. Rather feminine of course, and I’m confident in my both my aphorism and assertion that no real man would own one. But yes, for those with an excess of oestrogen, I’d say it’s one of Japans finest but most anodyne roadster. Imitation is suicide.
19 March 2005, 10:47 PM
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Keep your woodruff key in pete (MX5's techies will know about that one 
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MX5 are bit too limp wristed for me in terms of torque, just as well as the gearboxes don't cope as it is.....rather stick to a nice old TR6 running triple webbers (sod that crappy Fuel injection ) and a few bags of cement in the boot
Although did drive past a nice looking Griffith for sale today...hmmm.
)MX5 are bit too limp wristed for me in terms of torque, just as well as the gearboxes don't cope as it is.....rather stick to a nice old TR6 running triple webbers (sod that crappy Fuel injection
) and a few bags of cement in the boot Although did drive past a nice looking Griffith for sale today...hmmm.
19 March 2005, 11:33 PM
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My Mrs has had a Mk 1,2 and 3 Mr2 and a slk
Mk 3 was a loverly car to drive and it was vert chuckable
Mk 2 was just a ok car, still looks nice, just a bit common now.
Mk 1 was even better on corners but not much grunt
slk was torquey but rolled on every corner.
Is nice to get the roof down, even in a hairdressers car.
Now got a family brum brum, but still the torque
Mk 3 was a loverly car to drive and it was vert chuckable
Mk 2 was just a ok car, still looks nice, just a bit common now.
Mk 1 was even better on corners but not much grunt
slk was torquey but rolled on every corner.
Is nice to get the roof down, even in a hairdressers car.
Now got a family brum brum, but still the torque
19 March 2005, 11:35 PM
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I'm actually thinking of buying one of these to run over the summer. Currently I have a TVR Cerbera, and my wife has a Merc CLK 320 coupe. Thinking of getting an MX5 for around £4k so she can go to work and back with the roof down, then I can spank it round the track at the weekends. Even with insurance, it pains me to put £20k's worth of TVR on the track.
20 March 2005, 12:10 AM
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I used to have an MX5 - then I got a job and bought two bikes and a proper car instead. An MX5 is brilliant for what it is(n't) - It isn't a 5k bike and doesn't have the performance. It isn't a 20k car and doesn't have the carrying capacity. It isn't a different 20k car that can go some. It isn't a fast car.
It is good for 17 yo's to get cheap insurance and experience what a light Focus feels like
It is good for 17 yo's to get cheap insurance and experience what a light Focus feels like
20 March 2005, 09:46 AM
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Its funny how when a typically feminine looking (and owned) car is mentioned that there are so many 'gay' references dropped into the thread, Do we have any evidence that Gay men actually prefer and buy the MX5 compared to heterosexual men ?
This always happens with TT threads (including one I started), so we actually need some stats before we can say things like this, when I see a man in an MX5 I dont not automatically assume he is Gay, even if he is whats the problem ?
I just assume that MX5 drivers are probably very effeminite, have highlighted hair with lots of gel, tuck their jumpers in their jeans and read 'Style' magazines. Sort of girly men with immaculate nails that cant put a plug on, they go to the gym a lot yet are puny because they just stand around and then go for a poncy coffee, actually, no scratch that, they all bought the new Mini.
This always happens with TT threads (including one I started), so we actually need some stats before we can say things like this, when I see a man in an MX5 I dont not automatically assume he is Gay, even if he is whats the problem ?
I just assume that MX5 drivers are probably very effeminite, have highlighted hair with lots of gel, tuck their jumpers in their jeans and read 'Style' magazines. Sort of girly men with immaculate nails that cant put a plug on, they go to the gym a lot yet are puny because they just stand around and then go for a poncy coffee, actually, no scratch that, they all bought the new Mini.
20 March 2005, 09:50 AM
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I had someone come to me and said he sold the TVR and the Porche because the MX5 handles so much better and is more reliable.
Nothing feminine about his driving I must say.
The MX5 has a low centre of gravity and besides being failry light weight it has 50-50 weight distribution.
My brother has got one and it was comparable to the RX7 in many ways.
Nothing feminine about his driving I must say.
The MX5 has a low centre of gravity and besides being failry light weight it has 50-50 weight distribution.
My brother has got one and it was comparable to the RX7 in many ways.
20 March 2005, 11:00 AM
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Funny, a mate of mine recently sold his gay haidressers MX5 and bought an S2000 which is a middle aged pringle sweater wearing mans car... He's 28 puts werid stuff in his hair and wears strange clothes but is in no way gay.
That said I call him gay (as an insult because I find that whole thing very very wrong - my opinion and happy with it) and used to use it in reference to his MX5 frequently...
When we went out in it with the roof down people would take the p155 - kids would hurl insults, white van man found it the perfect car to tailgate and bully. It was lowered and use to bounce over bumps in the road like a gokart making country lane playtime a scary experience!!
Anyhoo - the S2000 is ten times the car but it cost him twice as much - much more fun then the mx5, but we agree to disagree on cars now - we have a mutual respect for being in the 240bhp gang. He rips me for owning the impreza - a drug dealers chav car - so its all good fun
That said I call him gay (as an insult because I find that whole thing very very wrong - my opinion and happy with it) and used to use it in reference to his MX5 frequently...
When we went out in it with the roof down people would take the p155 - kids would hurl insults, white van man found it the perfect car to tailgate and bully. It was lowered and use to bounce over bumps in the road like a gokart making country lane playtime a scary experience!!
Anyhoo - the S2000 is ten times the car but it cost him twice as much - much more fun then the mx5, but we agree to disagree on cars now - we have a mutual respect for being in the 240bhp gang. He rips me for owning the impreza - a drug dealers chav car - so its all good fun
20 March 2005, 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by J4CKO
Its funny how when a typically feminine looking (and owned) car is mentioned that there are so many 'gay' references dropped into the thread, Do we have any evidence that Gay men actually prefer and buy the MX5 compared to heterosexual men ?
This always happens with TT threads (including one I started), so we actually need some stats before we can say things like this, when I see a man in an MX5 I dont not automatically assume he is Gay, even if he is whats the problem ?
I just assume that MX5 drivers are probably very effeminite, have highlighted hair with lots of gel, tuck their jumpers in their jeans and read 'Style' magazines. Sort of girly men with immaculate nails that cant put a plug on, they go to the gym a lot yet are puny because they just stand around and then go for a poncy coffee, actually, no scratch that, they all bought the new Mini.
This always happens with TT threads (including one I started), so we actually need some stats before we can say things like this, when I see a man in an MX5 I dont not automatically assume he is Gay, even if he is whats the problem ?
I just assume that MX5 drivers are probably very effeminite, have highlighted hair with lots of gel, tuck their jumpers in their jeans and read 'Style' magazines. Sort of girly men with immaculate nails that cant put a plug on, they go to the gym a lot yet are puny because they just stand around and then go for a poncy coffee, actually, no scratch that, they all bought the new Mini.
26 March 2005, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
Took the MX5 out .......................
Buy one - you will not look back!
36mpg - annual services - nowt goes wrong - fun, fun, fun
Keep the Scooby for the real work - but get a fun car!
Pete
Buy one - you will not look back!
36mpg - annual services - nowt goes wrong - fun, fun, fun
Keep the Scooby for the real work - but get a fun car!
Pete
26 March 2005, 10:12 PM
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Originally Posted by micapink
LOL....you've got real problems Pete, even more so than I originally suspected...... And now, a special bulletin from our worldwide technical motoring expert Pete Lewis " Scoobies are not actually the best ". Authoritative automotive analasys at a hitherto unsurpassed level, and another PSL gem....thanks Pete, another miraculous insomnia cure, and all provided freely by your good self! Watch those 30 limits mate. I'm all gay in my PINK car!!
Please tell me, you only bought the MicaPink Scooby because you are colourblind?!
PMSL!!
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27 March 2005, 12:13 AM
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What I like about these verbal jousts is the complete unpredictability with which you respond...."der, I haven't got an answer for that, so I'll just fall back on the old car colour guff again, no-one 'll notice". Original that, you must be very proud.
Anyway, try to keep up mate, I drive a black Evo now. Couldn't get one in pink, those to55ers at Mitsubishi wouldn't supply one in 'my' colour!
Btw, notice how I'm making the effort to space out my sentences, so that the halfwitted among us can understand more easily.....thought you'd appreciate that.
Anyway, try to keep up mate, I drive a black Evo now. Couldn't get one in pink, those to55ers at Mitsubishi wouldn't supply one in 'my' colour!
Btw, notice how I'm making the effort to space out my sentences, so that the halfwitted among us can understand more easily.....thought you'd appreciate that.
27 March 2005, 12:31 AM
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I swear I used to have more fun driving my old MX5 at the limit on the 'twisties' than either of our scoobs. It's a magnet for trouble from Van Man though.
BTW, I don't get all this gay stuff about cars, working in the music biz I know many openly gay people and most of them drive big off roaders, jeeps and BMW's.
BTW, I don't get all this gay stuff about cars, working in the music biz I know many openly gay people and most of them drive big off roaders, jeeps and BMW's.
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