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The 5-speed I had in my 95 NA is still to this day the best feeling transmission (and clutch and throttle response) I've had the pleasure of driving. It all just combines so perfectly. The 6-speed in my E46 comes close, but the clutch and throttle response aren't as raw and precise as in the NA so the whole package isn't quite as nice.
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destructo posted:The E46 six speed sucks in comparison to the Mazda 5 speed, it's passable with a ZHP shift knob, but stock it's pretty miserable. One of the first things I did when I got the car was replace the stock knob with a ZHP knob. Huge improvement. The Mazda 5-speed is still king, though. I miss that car 
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1st_Panzer_Div. posted:So I've got a '95 M edition that I absolutely love...d. Until it just died last week, working my way through things I finally realized it was beyond my capabilities and had to take it to my mechanic. And find out today that he's fairly certain it's a broken valve seat; he's estimating it at $1,500-$2,000 total to have it remachined and labor etc. Plus my roof is in a really bad way which I had been planning on, but the $900/$1,000 there. 105k miles on the car. LS1 swap time. 
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Oct 16, 2013 06:33
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The hilariously lovely shifters on trucks like the Ranger or old Nissans and Toyotas is kind of part of their charm.
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I've been so excited for the ND launch for way too long now. It really can't come soon enough. I just hope it isn't a let down.
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Apr 16, 2014 20:47
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blk posted:Is there an easier way to get at the NA oil filter than from the top/side trying to squeeze my hand past the manifold and everything? I tried that this afternoon and managed to spill oil all over the engine bay, yay. Jack up front-passenger side enough to remove the wheel and reach through wheel well. Some people say you can do it by just cranking the wheel all the way to the side, but I was never able to do get enough clearance that way. Taking the wheel off only takes like an extra 5 minutes and with the wheel off it's easy-peasy.
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May 22, 2014 23:19
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Phone posted:Mark Booth has been dropping some truth bombs on Miata.net in regards to the ND. The dude is obviously a Mazda Community Outreach/Crowd Control guy. If this is accurate I'm a little disappointed that Mazda didn't push closer to 200hp, but that torque figure in proportion to the power looks appealing and being under 2400 pounds is pretty good. I'll definitely go test drive one...
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Jul 16, 2014 22:01
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Phone posted:NB2s are old dogshit, here are some pics of the NEW HOTNESS: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.867050849991497.1073741973.193891893974066&type=1 That's downright pornographic, thank you.
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Jul 22, 2014 07:25
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Assuming it's not a track car, I'd do the same thing.
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Jul 29, 2014 03:41
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Hikaki posted:God knows how many overpriced Miatas are on the SF CL are so someone's gotta be buying them. It's not overpriced if that's what people are consistently paying for them. That's how a free market works. Same deal up here in Seattle. The only Miata you're getting for under 3k is a shitpile. More realistically you're looking at 4-5k for something good.
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Jul 30, 2014 19:31
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Phone posted:A bunch of nerds on mnet are acting as if the NC is the pinnacle of Mazda's design language. I love how with every new generation of enthusiast car the initial reception is "it sucks, look how ugly it is, <manufacturer> lost their way after <older model>, I'll never buy one!!" and then 5-10 years later it turns out that "it's perfect and could never be improved upon, the new model that is just around the corner sure is going to suck!" The cycle repeats itself constantly and yet few people seem to realize.
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Aug 11, 2014 18:14
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I never had a cloth top, but I did put a Robbins no-zipper glass vinyl top on my NA back when I had it. At least in the Northwest, I absolutely positively 100% recommend the no-zip glass. Pros: - Visibility! The glass is so much clearer and never fogs or cracks. You can see so much better despite the glass window being slightly smaller than the acrylic window. - Durability. The glass will outlast the rest of the top, unlike acrylic. - You can buy glass with defroster elements built in for like $50 more and wire it up to your defroster if you've got the pigtail for it. - Ease of use. Don't need to unzip/zip the window to fold the top up and down. Cons: - If you live in a super hot climate, you can't unzip just the rear window while leaving the rest of the top up. In the Northwest this isn't an issue as it's rarely above 90 (and rarely below 40). - It takes a little while for the top to break-in, and until then operation of the no-zip top is a little tight and tricky. As it breaks in it gets easier. The break-in time might be a lot shorter with cloth than with vinyl, though, since it's more pliable. - You'll hate yourself for not switching to a glass window sooner.
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Aug 27, 2014 18:35
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gently caress the haters, the ND will probably be another awesome iteration of the tried and true Miata formula. All the usual naysayers will complain about lack of power, lack of fixed roof, lack of you-name-it. Is it bad that one of the things I'm most excited about the ND is the presumably wildly improved fuel economy?
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Sep 3, 2014 21:00
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I'm into it. Will test drive.
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Sep 4, 2014 02:11
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If you make something idiot-proof, they'll make a better idiot. It's a never-ending cycle of catering to the lowest common denominator.
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Sep 4, 2014 19:28
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A MIRACLE posted:My bone stock '93 makes a bit of a ... rattle on decel in gear. It's easier to hear with the top up but not super loud either way. Is this something to be concerned about? Does it happen at about the same RPM every time, say about 3500ish or so? My 95 would rattle subtly on decel as the RPMs dropped through that range and while I never figured it out I eliminated a number of things and I'm pretty sure it was an exhaust heat shield that would vibrate at a specific RPM frequency.
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It's going to be hard for me to resist picking up a PRHT ND once that variant is available.
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Taco Box posted:Anyone else get kinda tired of DDing a miata? I owned an NA as my only car for 4+ years a while back. While I did not fall out of love with the car, I did fall out of love with it being my only car. It was easy to put up with the downsides when I was in college/fresh grad, but it started to wear thin as time and life went on. In the Northwest it's awesome to have a Miata from about June to October where you can have the top down 90%+ of the time in temperatures that rarely stray from 60-90F. There are some nice days scattered through the rest of the year, but a soft-top convertible is largely kind of a bummer from like November to May since you make a pretty big trade-off in noise and insulation to have the drop top. Incidentally, the same part of the year that it's awesome to have a Miata it's also awesome to have a motorcycle... It's also a pretty big limiting factor for going hiking, biking, skiing, etc. when it's your only vehicle. Sure, you can kinda-sorta do it as long as you aren't trying to go with anyone, and I did, but it's just generally a hassle. I don't need an SUV, especially as a DD, but I needed something with a little more utility. So I switched and got an E46 coupe. Not as sharp as a Miata (not much is), but still a fantastic driver's car and day-to-day comfort is so, so much better. The trunk is sizable, the rear seats fold down, and while you wouldn't want to do a 10 hour road trip in the back seat it can fit 4 normal sized non-hambeast adults reasonably comfortably for a couple hours. And despite having a 3L engine with 2 more cylinders and 100 more horsepower it gets about the same gas mileage as my NA did - better, in fact, doing all-highway. My E46 is an awesome DD, and I have my motorcycle as a pseudo-replacement for the Miata. For a while owning 2 cars was simply out of the question, but it's becoming a possibility now. I toss around the idea of getting a beater utility/outdoors vehicle like a Forester or 4Runner or something like that, then picking up another Miata or similar car. Maybe getting rid of the bike to do so. For the moment I'm waiting to see how the ND shapes up before making any moves... Guinness fucked around with this message at 21:02 on Feb 9, 2015 |
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Apparently when goons "outgrow" Miatas they buy E46s.
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Feb 9, 2015 23:21
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Hikaki posted:Maybe I drive like a grandma but I get 30 mpg pretty consistently doing 80% highway. I'm actually kind of surprised considering I'm at 4k+ rpm constantly while on the highway. Grandma spotted. Also doing 80% highway is going to help your average mpg significantly.
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Feb 12, 2015 06:58
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Larrymer posted:Silver cars never look dirty. Conversely, silver cars never really look clean, either. Not the same way a freshly washed and waxed non-silver car does.
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A MIRACLE posted:Am I a bad person for wanting a blinged out power hard top ND. I don't really race my NA or anything I'd buy the poo poo out of an ND PRHT.
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Jun 16, 2015 19:18
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Did you seriously do image editing in Word with spellcheck and grammar check on? I do like the new wheels, though. Anything larger than about 16s look too big on an NA/NB.
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Grrr Mazda for not allowing you to option the factory LSD with the Grand Touring ND.  The GT has all the daily niceties that would make the car a livable DD, but the Club has all the proper sporty bits.
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GEMorris posted:Oh well, they're likely to fix it next year (and add the PRHT) so in four years I'll likely pick up a '17. Is there any real evidence for a PRHT ND in the pipe? If Mazda offers a true fully-loaded PRHT with all the features of the Club and the GT (or at the very least a GT + LSD) then I literally have nothing stopping me from buying an ND. It baffles me that they don't even offer it as a $$$ option. Mazda, I so badly want to give you money but you're busting my balls here.
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King-Kong posted:So this tiny thing followed me home yesterday (Club, MT, Ceramic): God, I'm so close to doing a very similar thing. I've had my '04 330ci for about 5 years, and while I still love it, I do really miss my old '95 M-Edition... Post some good pictures and early ownership impressions to put me over the edge!
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Oct 21, 2015 22:13
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djfooboo posted:Must resist the call of the ND... Right there with you. And now that the Fiata's official specs and photos are out, it's making it even harder. I still think the Mazda overall looks better, but the allure of that 1.4 Turbo that can be piggyback ECU tuned to ~200hp for like $600 is real. If the exhaust they slap on there sounds half as mean as a 500 Abarth then god drat. It doesn't help matters that Fiat has already said they are planning an Abarth version of the 124. It's the Mazdaspeed Miata that Mazda is too afraid to build.
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I highly doubt you'd be able to factory order a Club & GT Frankenstein, but a dealer might be willing to take your money to do some post-delivery modifications to add some of the GT features to a Club.
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A good number of newer cars exhibit that rev hang in between shifts. That's the biggest complaint about the new WRX throttle, too. I think it has something to do with emissions controls.
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While I like the look of the RF slightly more than the PRHT, I would rather have the full-convertible functionality of the PRHT.
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:I didn't want the infotainment in my vehicle because it will look dated sooner than the non-infotainment radio &tc. So, so true. Most of the infotainment crap on the market these days already looks dated and crappy while still sitting in the show room. Whereas a nice basic knobs and buttons interior from 10-15 years ago in a not poo poo-tier car still looks good and non-tacky.
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Rhyno posted:Did you buy an automatic Miata? 
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Feb 14, 2017 23:26
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Very very few dealerships have in-house body shops. They almost always outsource/refer that sort of thing.
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Dealers are scum. Every dealership car I've ever looked at, new and used, the sales person has used the line "someone else is interested and coming tomorrow, don't miss your chance!"
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Uh the difference between ~180ft and ~110ft stopping distance 50-0 on wet pavement is loving significant. Even ~90ft vs ~75f is a pretty big gap, that's like two car lengths. There are more reasons that you may need to suddenly stop than chronic tailgating.
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Now here's an interesting new "confirmed" rumor: 2019 Miata to get power bump from 155 to 181hp along with redline bump from 6800 to 7500rpm. https://www.autoblog.com/2018/06/11/mazda-miata-more-horsepower-higher-redline/ I'll believe it when the official Mazda USA press release goes out, but that would be a fairly significant update.
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