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It's Friday and I'm bored - Printable Version

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Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - rherold9 - 11-01-2016

For people not on /r/cars again: [youtube]SLONL8ax9CI[/youtube]

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - Senor_Taylor - 11-01-2016

Such a cool car in concept, but $70,000+ for a Miata no matter what's in it is ludicrous.

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - ScottyB - 11-01-2016

Senor_Taylor Wrote:$70,000+ for a Miata no matter what's in it is ludicrous.

its definitely a lot. but, i'd look at it instead as a "mini Z06" rather than a swapped miata. everything works, its brand new, and there's nothing you can buy with that speed and reliability that weighs anywhere close to 2600lbs for the money in ragtop form. for the cars it can compete with in performance, i don't think anything new is going to touch it for 70.

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - G.Irish - 11-01-2016

^^^ My thoughts exactly ^^^

Yeah it's pricey, but there really isn't anything road legal that is gonna come close to that kinda weight with that kinda power for the money.

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - BLINGMW - 11-01-2016

Something about swapped V8 Miatas of any generation strikes me as kinda dumb. Like, no shit you can make it go faster in a straight line. :dunno:

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - ViPER1313 - 11-01-2016

A new Alfa 4c + a tune (around 300hp, not 520) and a really nice vacation with the savings?

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - Goodspeed - 11-01-2016

As others said you're not really buying a "$70k Miata", but a 520hp 2600lb RWD roadster with a Mazda badge attached. All new & different subsystems in every part of the car, nothing else like it, configuration or performance wise, on the market for the price. They've built a few dozen of these (NA/B/C) and IIRC they've sold like ~250 kits to date for home builders (so not $70k FM-built, but I've run the numbers and it's still $$$) so the market is there.

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - BLINGMW - 11-02-2016

Goodspeed Wrote:As others said you're not really buying a "$70k Miata", but a 520hp 2600lb RWD roadster with a Mazda badge attached. All new & different subsystems in every part of the car, nothing else like it, configuration or performance wise, on the market for the price. They've built a few dozen of these (NA/B/C) and IIRC they've sold like ~250 kits to date for home builders (so not $70k FM-built, but I've run the numbers and it's still $$$) so the market is there.
So it's more like a factory five cobra but not nearly as cool? (And possibly more expensive?)

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - Goodspeed - 11-02-2016

BLINGMW Wrote:So it's more like a factory five cobra but not nearly as cool? (And possibly more expensive?)

Except you can drive this across the country without rattling or burning yourself to death as they note in the vid, and it has AC, stereo, bluetooth, a real top, blablabla. Same but different. Would I rather have a FFR Cobra for same/less? Possibly*. But I wouldn't dream I could live with it the same way I could the FM car.

*I've sat in a few and even though I'm small the ergonomics were :lol:

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - WRXtranceformed - 11-02-2016

Yeah I've never been a big Miata guy but this thing is cool and worth the money. You're going to tie up that much in any project car that fast and it's probably not going to be nearly as livable (ie uncomfortable, big turbo laggy, always breaking more stuff, etc)

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - JPolen01 - 11-02-2016

Goodspeed Wrote:Would I rather have a FFR Cobra for same/less? Possibly*. But I wouldn't dream I could live with it the same way I could the FM car.

*I've sat in a few and even though I'm small the ergonomics were :lol:
I'll be in the FM camp. My friend's dad built a factory 5 cobra for years in his garage. I always thought it was so cool until it was done. Impossible to get in and out of. Fiberglass everywhere. Literally no interior besides seats a steering wheel and a shifter. Loud as hell and fast, but those were the only redeeming qualities.

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - SlimKlim - 11-02-2016

If I had that kind of budget I'd totally rock one in NOVA, the land of leased Boxsters, AMG and M cars.

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - Senor_Taylor - 11-02-2016

So everyone who doesn't like Miatas like this, and the people who have owned multiple miatas don't. Is there a correlation?

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Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - ScottyB - 11-02-2016

Senor_Taylor Wrote:So everyone who doesn't like Miatas like this

probably because its so not-a-miata.

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - BLINGMW - 11-02-2016

ScottyB Wrote:probably because its so not-a-miata.
Right. I wouldn't hate on anyone for having one and I'd certainly like to take it for a spin... I dunno, I just don't get it. I guess it's a poor man's do-everything-but-still-only-room-for-two supercar, for people that like sleepers? :dunno: Too comfy and too unproven for a track car, too small for a useful DD, but man, stoplight racing ricers, here I come!

JPolen01 Wrote:Literally no interior besides seats a steering wheel and a shifter. Loud as hell and fast, but those were the only redeeming qualities
Now THIS I like the sound of. :thumbup: I *think* however one possible redeeming quality you forgot is that it looks like a Cobra.

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - SlimKlim - 11-02-2016

Senor_Taylor Wrote:So everyone who doesn't like Miatas like this, and the people who have owned multiple miatas don't. Is there a correlation?

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I've owned a miata and I like it. :dunno: I'm also a liberal that owns a gun, and probably a few other walking paradoxes, so I just like to fuck statistics up I guess.

BLINGMW Wrote:
ScottyB Wrote:probably because its so not-a-miata.
Right. I wouldn't hate on anyone for having one and I'd certainly like to take it for a spin... I dunno, I just don't get it. I guess it's a poor man's do-everything-but-still-only-room-for-two supercar, for people that like sleepers? :dunno: Too comfy and too unproven for a track car, too small for a useful DD, but man, stoplight racing ricers, here I come!

I just love sleepers. If I had a bottomless wallet I'd go a step further and choke down that LS motor with the most restrictive exhaust possible for the ultimate stealth experience (could always run a cutout for when you need braps). Imagine that little thing passing you on the highway like you were standing still and not even emitting an exhaust note that explains why it's so fast. :lol:

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - BLINGMW - 11-02-2016

SlimKlim Wrote:Imagine that little thing passing you on the highway like you were standing still and not even emitting an exhaust note that explains why it's so fast. :lol:
A stock minivan could pass me at 120MPH like I was standing still too. And the "reason" it's so fast would be the same, driver is a fool. I mean, the guy said they haven't even high speed tested the FM Miata. Have fun with that!

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - davej - 11-02-2016

BLINGMW Wrote:
SlimKlim Wrote:Imagine that little thing passing you on the highway like you were standing still and not even emitting an exhaust note that explains why it's so fast. :lol:
A stock minivan could pass me at 120MPH like I was standing still too. And the "reason" it's so fast would be the same, driver is a fool. I mean, the guy said they haven't even high speed tested the FM Miata. Have fun with that!

I bet that thing would float like a hovercraft after a buck fiddy. Really put the Flyin in Miata.

Oh, and on your stock minivan note, I've been having too many bad dreams about the R63 that ends today. Much want.
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Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - SlimKlim - 11-02-2016

BLINGMW Wrote:
SlimKlim Wrote:Imagine that little thing passing you on the highway like you were standing still and not even emitting an exhaust note that explains why it's so fast. :lol:
A stock minivan could pass me at 120MPH like I was standing still too. And the "reason" it's so fast would be the same, driver is a fool. I mean, the guy said they haven't even high speed tested the FM Miata. Have fun with that!

Sure but I'm still allowed to enjoy theoretical situations about things I'll never do in cars I'll never own.

You're getting too old and grumpy. An isty bitsy teeny weeny roadster with a bigass V8 should at least bring a little smile to your face just for existing. It doesn't have to make sense.

Re: It's Friday and I'm bored - BLINGMW - 11-02-2016

SlimKlim Wrote:You're getting too old and grumpy. An isty bitsy teeny weeny roadster with a bigass V8 should at least bring a little smile to your face just for existing.
:lol:
it does!
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