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If you could buy any car..?
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Some of those "exoskeleton" cars are pretty cool. Ariel Atom or KTM X-Bow. I'd like to build a "Vette Cart" someday.
Those Ariels are very fast. One of the garages Eddie Hill has when I bought his Caddy had a few. He sure likes his toys.
I couldn't ever imagine fooling around with three wheelers. They're not a bike, they can't move through traffic like one and certainly don't corner like one. But the biggest flaw to my mind is the exposed front wheels, no room for error there. If I ever had to transition I'd get a proper sports car, something light and fast like an old Honda MR2 , a mid-engine car with optional supercharger. It was fitted with a 4A-GE 1.6-litre, twin cam, sixteen valve engine borrowed from the legendary AE86 Corolla GT-S.
From an Article:
handling is the MR2’s distinguishing characteristic. Just like its styling, handling of the MR2 is razor sharp. It is an easy car to drive fast and is even easier to drive faster. The car is nimble and predictable through corners with rapid and precise turn-in when the steering wheel is turned. Even if you manage to get yourself into trouble and the rear end starts to rotate around just dial in some opposite steering and the MR2’s quick reflexes will save you. Toyota spent a significant amount of time testing its new sports car at race circuits around the world using experienced race drivers like Dan Gurney to test development cars. Toyota even recruited Lotus to assist them with the handling balance of the car since Lotus had much more experience with the handling characteristics of mid-engine sports cars.
I had the opportunity to drive an Mazda MX5 years ago, I think they called them a Mileta in the states. As gutless a 4-cyl as you could get but it would stick to the road like S*** to a blanket. I took it up over Mt Tambourine S of Brisbane, a super windy road with lots of 30km/h corners. It drove like it was on rails, no flex in the body whatsoever. Having a curb weight under 1,100 kg (2,500 lb) helped of course. I certainly wouldn't get one of those, a hairdressers car for sure, but it showed me what a small sports orientated car could handle like if it was done right!
themotoringenthusiastjournal.com/fun_stuff/toyota_mr2.htm
I'll stick with my bikes for now though
From an Article:
handling is the MR2’s distinguishing characteristic. Just like its styling, handling of the MR2 is razor sharp. It is an easy car to drive fast and is even easier to drive faster. The car is nimble and predictable through corners with rapid and precise turn-in when the steering wheel is turned. Even if you manage to get yourself into trouble and the rear end starts to rotate around just dial in some opposite steering and the MR2’s quick reflexes will save you. Toyota spent a significant amount of time testing its new sports car at race circuits around the world using experienced race drivers like Dan Gurney to test development cars. Toyota even recruited Lotus to assist them with the handling balance of the car since Lotus had much more experience with the handling characteristics of mid-engine sports cars.
I had the opportunity to drive an Mazda MX5 years ago, I think they called them a Mileta in the states. As gutless a 4-cyl as you could get but it would stick to the road like S*** to a blanket. I took it up over Mt Tambourine S of Brisbane, a super windy road with lots of 30km/h corners. It drove like it was on rails, no flex in the body whatsoever. Having a curb weight under 1,100 kg (2,500 lb) helped of course. I certainly wouldn't get one of those, a hairdressers car for sure, but it showed me what a small sports orientated car could handle like if it was done right!
themotoringenthusiastjournal.com/fun_stuff/toyota_mr2.htm
I'll stick with my bikes for now though
They are called a Miata here in North America.....I know someone that has a new one, he supercharged it and that little car is like a go-cart....I couldn't ever imagine fooling around with three wheelers. They're not a bike, they can't move through traffic like one and certainly don't corner like one. If I ever had to transition I'd get a proper sports car, something light and fast like an old Honda MR2 , a mid-engine car with optional supercharger. It was fitted with a 4A-GE 1.6-litre, twin cam, sixteen valve engine borrowed from the legendary AE86 Corolla GT-S.
From an Article:
handling is the MR2’s distinguishing characteristic. Just like its styling, handling of the MR2 is razor sharp. It is an easy car to drive fast and is even easier to drive faster. The car is nimble and predictable through corners with rapid and precise turn-in when the steering wheel is turned. Even if you manage to get yourself into trouble and the rear end starts to rotate around just dial in some opposite steering and the MR2’s quick reflexes will save you. Toyota spent a significant amount of time testing its new sports car at race circuits around the world using experienced race drivers like Dan Gurney to test development cars. Toyota even recruited Lotus to assist them with the handling balance of the car since Lotus had much more experience with the handling characteristics of mid-engine sports cars.
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I had the opportunity to drive an Mazda MX5 years ago, I think they called them a Mileta in the states. As gutless a 4-cyl as you could get but it would stick to the road like S*** to a blanket. I took it up over Mt Tambourine S of Brisbane, a super windy road with lots of 30km/h corners. It drove like it was on rails, no flex in the body whatsoever. Having a curb weight under 1,100 kg (2,500 lb) helped of course. I certainly wouldn't get one of those, a hairdressers car for sure, but it showed me what a small sports orientated car could handle like if it was done right!
themotoringenthusiastjournal.com/fun_stuff/toyota_mr2.htm
I'll stick with my bikes for now though
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One of my former colleagues had a 2nd gen factory supercharged MR2 of which he spent a pile of money on for upgrades.....it was quite a car and sexy as heck.......
I couldn't ever imagine fooling around with three wheelers. They're not a bike, they can't move through traffic like one and certainly don't corner like one. But the biggest flaw to my mind is the exposed front wheels, no room for error there. If I ever had to transition I'd get a proper sports car, something light and fast like an old Honda MR2 , a mid-engine car with optional supercharger. It was fitted with a 4A-GE 1.6-litre, twin cam, sixteen valve engine borrowed from the legendary AE86 Corolla GT-S.
From an Article:
handling is the MR2’s distinguishing characteristic. Just like its styling, handling of the MR2 is razor sharp. It is an easy car to drive fast and is even easier to drive faster. The car is nimble and predictable through corners with rapid and precise turn-in when the steering wheel is turned. Even if you manage to get yourself into trouble and the rear end starts to rotate around just dial in some opposite steering and the MR2’s quick reflexes will save you. Toyota spent a significant amount of time testing its new sports car at race circuits around the world using experienced race drivers like Dan Gurney to test development cars. Toyota even recruited Lotus to assist them with the handling balance of the car since Lotus had much more experience with the handling characteristics of mid-engine sports cars.
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I had the opportunity to drive an Mazda MX5 years ago, I think they called them a Mileta in the states. As gutless a 4-cyl as you could get but it would stick to the road like S*** to a blanket. I took it up over Mt Tambourine S of Brisbane, a super windy road with lots of 30km/h corners. It drove like it was on rails, no flex in the body whatsoever. Having a curb weight under 1,100 kg (2,500 lb) helped of course. I certainly wouldn't get one of those, a hairdressers car for sure, but it showed me what a small sports orientated car could handle like if it was done right!
themotoringenthusiastjournal.com/fun_stuff/toyota_mr2.htm
I'll stick with my bikes for now though
Beautiful car! I got to drive a later gen turbo MR2. Amazing car. One of my first turbo car experiences. The car I drove had significant turbo lag. One had to drive it in anger to keep her on boil. One mix up and you are off the boost and the power.
......His MR2 must have been turbo'd instead. For some reason I thought it was supercharged.......those were the 1st gen cars....
Yes. I think there were only the two gens. Gen 1 had the sweet supercharger. Gen 2 went turbo. Both awesome.
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