Cool Miata based kit cars
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I know that Rockville and a few others are gong to remind me that they disagree with me every time I say something to this effect , but I just don't get cars like this. Is it fun? I bet it is, but so is a shifter kart that you can buy used for next to nothing. Hell, the shifter kart is probably twice as fun.
If you're going to get a non real car, why not go all the way and get a single seater something-or-other? This is not enough of a real car to have any tangible benefits such as being able to feel good about it beating some other car, yet it's probably not extreme enough such that it is going to ruffle any feathers among other custom built track cars (read: not production based track cars).
Again, looks like a great deal of fun but it's lost on me.
Luder, you've already go a Miata based car. It's called a Miata and you can actually race it against other real cars.
If you're going to get a non real car, why not go all the way and get a single seater something-or-other? This is not enough of a real car to have any tangible benefits such as being able to feel good about it beating some other car, yet it's probably not extreme enough such that it is going to ruffle any feathers among other custom built track cars (read: not production based track cars).
Again, looks like a great deal of fun but it's lost on me.
Luder, you've already go a Miata based car. It's called a Miata and you can actually race it against other real cars.
Actually I'm not, in principle, against a car like this. I'm not sure I'm in favor of one so aesthetically challenged. I like the idea of a car that makes for a very pure road going experience. What I have trouble understanding is why people adjust cars to the point where they are useless for the road yet for the same money they are inferior track weapons. As a better "nice day canyon carver", not to mention the satisfaction of having a hand in the making, than the average Miata I can be enthused about the car... now the question is how do I drive it without looking at it...
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I usually like odd-looking cars, but DAMN that thing is UGLY! I'd call it an extremely good argument for doing a Locost...
If you're going to get a non real car, why not go all the way and get a single seater something-or-other?
car, yet it's probably not extreme enough such that it is going to ruffle any feathers among other custom built track cars
Hell, the shifter kart is probably twice as fun.
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Originally Posted by Mr.E.G.' timestamp='1327775821' post='21361252
I know that Rockville and a few others are gong to remind me that they disagree with me every time I say something to this effect , but I just don't get cars like this. Is it fun? I bet it is, but so is a shifter kart that you can buy used for next to nothing. Hell, the shifter kart is probably twice as fun.
If you're going to get a non real car, why not go all the way and get a single seater something-or-other? This is not enough of a real car to have any tangible benefits such as being able to feel good about it beating some other car, yet it's probably not extreme enough such that it is going to ruffle any feathers among other custom built track cars (read: not production based track cars).
Again, looks like a great deal of fun but it's lost on me.
Luder, you've already go a Miata based car. It's called a Miata and you can actually race it against other real cars.
If you're going to get a non real car, why not go all the way and get a single seater something-or-other? This is not enough of a real car to have any tangible benefits such as being able to feel good about it beating some other car, yet it's probably not extreme enough such that it is going to ruffle any feathers among other custom built track cars (read: not production based track cars).
Again, looks like a great deal of fun but it's lost on me.
Luder, you've already go a Miata based car. It's called a Miata and you can actually race it against other real cars.
Actually I'm not, in principle, against a car like this. I'm not sure I'm in favor of one so aesthetically challenged. I like the idea of a car that makes for a very pure road going experience. What I have trouble understanding is why people adjust cars to the point where they are useless for the road yet for the same money they are inferior track weapons. As a better "nice day canyon carver", not to mention the satisfaction of having a hand in the making, than the average Miata I can be enthused about the car... now the question is how do I drive it without looking at it...
Yeah, you and I have had this conversation before. Lulz. I know that any single seater would make a better track car but there is just something awesome about taking a road car and modifying the heck out of it. If all road cars were slow then I would probably want a single seater racecar, but as long as they keep making Corvettes and Ferraris I will always like modifying cars.
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One of my friends just sold his miata with high miles for 1200, glad I didnt see these conversions then.
And yeah shifter carts are fun till you crack a rib, then not so fun.
And yeah shifter carts are fun till you crack a rib, then not so fun.
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Sooooo....if you went through all the troubles of buying this kit, and the trouble of taking off the body panels and stuff... why don't i just take the front and rear subframes and make a tube chassis?
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Yeah, you and I have had this conversation before. Lulz. I know that any single seater would make a better track car but there is just something awesome about taking a road car and modifying the heck out of it. If all road cars were slow then I would probably want a single seater racecar, but as long as they keep making Corvettes and Ferraris I will always like modifying cars.
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I'm definitely jealous!
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why don't i just take the front and rear subframes and make a tube chassis?
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why don't i just take the front and rear subframes and make a tube chassis?
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Oh no! The A arms aren't pretty. What are we going to do?