Post #115471 by Satan's Sin on Sun, Sep 19, 2004 8:52 AM

cynfulcynner --

Thanks for the additional Miata posts -- beautiful car.

And yes, I know that rotary engine very well. I had a Mazda RX-3, ages ago. Very smooth acceleration. A little slow to get out of first and second gear, but once you were up and running it was very very powerful. You could be going 70 and stomp the accelerator and it would really just take off!

Not so good in the milage dept.

P.S. -- visited a friend Fri night who just bought a Thunderbird. It's smaller than the photos led me to believe -- but that's a good thing. Sitting in it was like sitting in a "regular" sports car -- as opposed to an oversized American convertible. Nice tight feel to everything -- like a Mercedes. Transmission can flip from automatic to stick shift -- neat! Engine is a Jaguar V-8 -- wow!

Owner reports that whenever she's in Palm Springs she sees tons of these cars. I understand. First place I'd go would be Palm Springs -- with the top down, of course, as one tears across the beautiful desert.

My own dream is to have one of these beauts -- with bright aqua paintjob. And seats done over in leopard skin. Would go so well with my ivory cigarette holder and monocole. Heaven!

[ Edited by: Satan's Sin on 2004-09-19 08:55 ]