Automotive News Discussion

[Senor_Taylor]

But did you notice the option for a carbon fiber composite box?!?  That was super interesting to me.  I don't know realistically how that would compare to steel in terms of heavy loads dropping on it but the weight savings is going to be obvious.  

That is just marketing bullshit. Who is actually dropping insanely heavy items into the bed of their truck? I've never seen someone literally launch a toolbox into the bed of their truck, either because they care about their tools and/or their truck.

As someone who lives in a newly developing subdivision, I can tell you that yes, I have seen lots of rtards dropping insanely heavy items in the back of a truck with ZERO fucks given.

Yeah, I've spent plenty of time chucking logs/other shit in the bed of my truck. Actual truck things aren't usually gently sitting an engine on a tire in your bed. *Most* "truck things" involve dirt, hay bails, rusty farm equipment/tools, ladders, contraction materials.

Just that nobody here interacts with people who use their vehicles like that often.

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The only people who see a problem with 150hp in a Miata are people who never owned one. A high horsepower Miata is no longer a Miata. I think 180 would he fine, but if you want a factory 200+ hp Miata, buy something else.

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Did you copy paste that from miata.net?
Ive owned a few,  and Id love a 200hp miata.   

The only reason to not like a higher hp miata is if it compromises anything else that makes it great.

There is no reason not to love a miata with a lightweight high revving I4 that makes 220+ hp.   Something like the engines that honda used to make before they lost their soul.

Sure, go ahead and build a Miata to do that, but that from the Factory is not the Miata and not the audience the car is marketing to. Look at who buys a Miata new. New Miatas already cost enough, so adding power surely drives that up even more. The consumer that buys the high power 4 cylinder buys an Si.

Just go buy the Abarth Fiata if you want a fast Miata. It exists, but no one is buying it.

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