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Old 09-28-2011, 05:44 PM   #18 (permalink)
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I see your point, CMike. In fact, if power was all an enthusiast cared about, the Miata would have died in the 90's.

It is about the driving experience for me, not just the stat sheet.
Power is what makes it more fun, though! I drove a few 370Z's before I settled on something with more power. Lots of cars will handle well. The new V6 mustang handles better than the 370Z for crying out loud (At least, it turned lap-times at VIR VERY! similar to a NISMO even though it sat there banging off the 114mph speedo limiter for all the straight stretches, lol).

Balance is fine and dandy, but you also want to know that the car is going to GO when you mush the long skinny one to the right, because plenty of other cars have balance AND will GO!

Lets not start making excuses about "balance" and whatnot. It doesn't even really have that at 53/47. Unless of course now we are going to start using the mustang as a standard of comparison in the world of finely balanced sports cars. The only reason the Miata lives is because it is cheap as hell to maintain and offers great handling at that price-point. When you can go and auto-X the crap out of it and burn through a set of tires and not cry, it's a HUGE! selling point for an enthusiast without the desire to dump thousands of dollars a track day into their car.

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