Ultra pretentious question!!!!!

[taylor]

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Originally Posted by wallijonn I STRONGLY suggest that you take it out for a 1 hour test drive. You may find the bucket seats are not the most comfortable for long distance driving. The newer seats are higher than my '90 seats. I once drove 14 hours between Dallas, TX and Phoneix, AZ. I had to take a 15 to 30 minute break every hour. I padded the seat with 1" of foam - otherwise it is murder on my back. I'm 5'7". If you're over 6' you may have problems. The Miata seats are very narrow. I wish I could put the Honda Del-Sol seats in my Miata. You can shoe horn a V8 into the Miata for about $8000 out the door. I'd rather go that way than turbo this, muffler that, brakes the other thing. When my 1.6 goes I'll be putting in a V8.

The Miata does not have much headroom either. I was at the Philly auto show last year, and got to sit in the Miata. I'm 6'2", and I was very happy that the convertable top was open because if it wasn't, there was no way I was going to fit in the car. When I got in, the top bar of the windshield was at eye level.

The Miata is probably out if you're above 6'.

 

[neueziel]

The current model NSX is around $90,000. However you can get an early 90's for around $20,000 I've heard...

 

[meithkiller]

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Originally Posted by wallijonn I STRONGLY suggest that you take it out for a 1 hour test drive. You may find the bucket seats are not the most comfortable for long distance driving. The newer seats are higher than my '90 seats. I once drove 14 hours between Dallas, TX and Phoneix, AZ. I had to take a 15 to 30 minute break every hour. I padded the seat with 1" of foam - otherwise it is murder on my back. I'm 5'7". If you're over 6' you may have problems. The Miata seats are very narrow.

If he buys a Miata for open track racing (which is what it sounds like he's going to do), the stock seat will be coming out and will be replaced with a fixed-back race seat (he can choose one that is somewhat comfortable for him), and a roll cage and other safety equipment will be going in. Unless he is running longer endurance races, most races a Miata will compete in will be under an hour, so the comfort issue won't be much of a concern. Most race seats can also be mounted lower to the floor and you'll gain headroom since you'll be lower in the car. I'm 6'1" and 230 lbs, and its a tight fit for me in a Miata, but that will be one of my next car purchases (for racing), for the money it is hard to beat.

-Keith

 

[wallijonn]

Keith,

You're absolutely right. I was associating the M3 with the Miata - in a non-race way.