chrisritch
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Registered: 2nd Sep 08
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Yay or Nay
With my hopes of a 172 dashed by insurance quotes and shit, MX5s have cropped up alot in convo on Saxp
Im seriously wanting one now, looking at the Mark 1 1.6 Eunos model
Just part of me isn't sure about them
Pro's:
-RWD
-Japanese Reliability
-Cheap to Buy
-Insurance is £735 a year
Cons:
-The inevitably being called a bender all the time for driving a 'hairdressers' car
-Modifying costs; its pretty expensive to get upgrade parts for them
What does everyone else think?
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*JonnyG*
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Registered: 2nd Jun 08
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Do it!
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spikedjack
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Registered: 16th Oct 08
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get the supercharged 10th anni model 
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chrisritch
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Registered: 2nd Sep 08
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cough insurance cough
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*JonnyG*
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Whats that. 
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Butler
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Just to make you jealous, heres my two cars....
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chrisritch
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i......am....so.........pissed......off........right.....now
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Butler
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I think you should get an mx5, sod what people say. Ours is shocking condition but its a track car. There is a guy on here with a black one on ronal ts', looks sooo good, not girly at all.
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FAZ
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quote:
Originally posted by Butler
Just to make you jealous, heres my two cars....
[img]http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs166.snc1/6216_238839890690_561465690_8559534_7972827_n.jpg[/im]
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inliner04
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isnt the eunos an import version? therefore high insurance?
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inliner04
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also you mention 'japanese reliability' but my dads was extremely unreliable, and was the reason he sold it.
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P1CK4D
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quote:
Originally posted by inliner04
also you mention 'japanese reliability' but my dads was extremely unreliable, and was the reason he sold it.
Probably just a bad example. Never hear of MX5's putting a foot wrong tbh.
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inliner04
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^possibly, but everytime something went wrong, he fixed it, and something else went wrong. Car was cursed. . .
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P1CK4D
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quote:
Originally posted by inliner04
Car was cursed. . .
Some just are. Unfortunatly there are always some wrongens.
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Rob126
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Registered: 18th Feb 05
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would it cost a lot more in insurance to get a 1.8 instead of a 1.6? would be a lot better.
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Daimo B
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quote:
Originally posted by chrisritch
Cons:
-The inevitably being called a bender all the time for driving a 'hairdressers' car
-Modifying costs; its pretty expensive to get upgrade parts for them
What does everyone else think?
I think you should stop listening to what everyone else thinks of your money, and do what makes YOU happy.
MX5 is an awesome little car, and anyone who says otherwise clearly doesn't know a damn thing about cars and should be laughed at for their ignorence.
Brilliant little cars. Proof that power isn't everything.
You don't NEED to do too much too them thats why
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Daimo B
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And anyway, you own a Saxo, and your worried about people taking the p1ss out of you?
Bit late for that aint it
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scoob
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ive been on the look out for an mx5 for the past 2 weeks just need to shift my vectra first 
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Twiggy
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My bro had 3! Brilliant cars, His last one had done 150k!
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Butler
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quote:
Originally posted by Rob126
would it cost a lot more in insurance to get a 1.8 instead of a 1.6? would be a lot better.
Argueable, more power but heavier car. On paper there isnt much in it speed wise, weve shed a lot of weight of our 1.6 so im hoping it will be better in the corners than any 1.8
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Rob E
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Registered: 1st Jan 06
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Brilliant little cars, I've had mine a month or so and any excuse to drive and im there I changed the wheels on mine and it completly transformed the look of the car and people who gave me the hairdresser remarks when I first bought it all changed their mind now 
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SVM 286
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Yay.
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