Path: utzoo!utgpu!alliant.com!UUCP Reply-To: british-cars@alliant.com Errors-To: british-cars-request@alliant.com Sender: british-cars-request@alliant.com Return-Path: From: ejd@iris.brown.edu Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 04:39:11 EST Message-ID: <9002260939.AA04248@m2ejd> To: british-cars@alliant.com Subject: Re: Some people! Newsgroups: list.british-cars Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu mjb writes: Boy, I don't know about the Miata, or at least the folks who buy them. This past weekend it was NICE. Warm, sunny, with temperatures in the mid 50s. I was really really wishing I had at least ONE of these doll-garn Tee Arrs running[...] I saw two new Mazda Miatas. They BOTH had the tops up. Sigh. ---end citation --- Well, ya can't generalize from two drivers, now, can ya. I for one know of one or two owners who can't get enough of driving with the top down at any opportunity over 40 degrees F - Bell's Palsy be damned! :-) But then again, there're a LOT of exceedingly prissy Miata drivers out there, too. Don't know how good they have it - lots of fun with a minimum of hassles, and none of those funky SU or Lucas apparati to need tweaking right when you need the car for a date or something. Why, I even know a woman, in Cupertino of all places, who had the nerve to tell me that it was 'just a little too cold' to drive without the roof --- WHEN IT WENT UNDER 55!!!! Sheesh! She grows up with MGBs and a Spridget of her own in Philadelphia, then moves to California, gets a Miata, and her brain turns into guacamole. 55?! 55!!! I'd KILL for 55 degrees right about now. Maybe I'm the exception to the rule for M-drivers? Heaven help us. ed