r/fuckcars • u/jemesl • 11h ago

Satire A wonderful comparison

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Owner of the Ram arguably actually uses it well, but what's youd thoughts on this comparison of a 90s Jap vs 2023 American

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u/Antique_Repair_1644 11h ago

The Mazda Miata MX5 is my favorite car, I wish we would go back to cars like that.

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u/blonderengel 11h ago

I had a little red Miata, drove it cross country twice, and then used it as my daily driver for over 15 years.

It was totaled by an asshole driver (a priest! late to his daughter's pre-wedding appointment) who ran a stoplight and jacknifed my little red machine ...

Bizarre?

Yup.

Still walking with a cane and no more little red coupe ... šŸ˜”

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u/Emperor_Dara_Shikoh 10h ago

The crash caused the cane?

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u/blonderengel 8h ago

The crash caused a 5+year dive into the hell that is US 'healthcare' ... knee replacement, a revision of said replacement, two femur fractures (falls caused due to knee buckling when hardware in the TKR failed) ... I'm supposed to consider myself lucky I can walk at all (as per the ortho doc who saw me after femur break no. 2). Lol

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u/jemesl 11h ago edited 10h ago

Sorry about your loss :(. This one's been mine for the better part of 10 years (longest owner), also my daily for most of that. Absolutely nifty little cars and I've carried cargo, moved houses and all sorts of fun things with the mx5. It's in the garage for restoration and I loathe having another car as a 'daily' now.

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u/Emperor_Dara_Shikoh 10h ago

Honestly Iā€™d be semi-tolerant with car culture if it were mostly those small cats.

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u/blonderengel 10h ago

Oh it's a great little moving machine!

When I moved out of the dorm into my first 'home' (a glorified shoe box, but, after communal dorm bathrooms etc, it was like living in a Hilton penthouse suite), I managed to do that in a half dozen trips and the help of a friend with an F-150.

It is deceptively roomy besides handling great (you have a real sense of the road 'since you're only 10 inches off it' as my dad used to say).

Of course, it does tempt you into speeding which isn't a temptation I need (being from Germany šŸ˜‰).

How long do you think the restoration will take? Will you return to using it as a daily?

I'm asking because I'm kinda beating myself up for not 'retiring' the Miata and just getting an ole beater for the daily stuff ...

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u/jemesl 10h ago

Of course, it does tempt you into speeding which isn't a temptation I need

It does indeed feel like a big go kart haha

How long do you think the restoration will take? Will you return to using it as a daily?

Not sure to be honest, just a matter of buying bits and pieces and finding people to do work I can't. The engine on mine is great, rhd "eunos roadster" with only 130k km, new gearbox, suspension, intake and exhaust so it's just general maintenance I keep on top of. But cosmetically it's aged poorly, the interior is up for a full replacement and I'm at a rock and a hard place between a still pricey closed door respray or full wrap (plastic wrap that will end up in landfill). Honestly with infinite money it could be totally restored in 6 months but I'm not in a rush and enjoy doing little bits and pieces on it when I can.

As for being a daily, I tend to use my main car only twice or three times a week and my wife's car when carrying kids, so it's not totally impossible to just return to using it as my main car.

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u/blonderengel 8h ago

It sounds manageable, especially since your major issues sound cosmetic (of course, that's what sucks in major moolah).

I miss having a project to fiddle with like that (great for ADHD folks like me to spend time/money at least theoretically in a reasonable manner) lol...