In today’s world more is always more, more power, more brakes, more grip, and this is all evaluated on a spreadsheet. Very rarely is there talk of more driving fun. If the numbers don’t add up on the spreadsheet, then the car must not be good.
Those that are actually interested in DRVING cars rather than just evaluating how they look on a spreadsheet know that the name of the ESPN show “Numbers Never Lie” is false, great cars, memorable cars are not about the numbers, they are about the DRVING!
Like the British sports cars of old, MG’s, Lotus Elan, Triumph TR6’s and Spitfire’s, and more recently the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ, light weight chassis don’t require big horsepower numbers to be fun.
For 15 years now the Mazda MX-5/Miata have been that car. Yes it has grown in weight and size some over the years, but it still stays true to the formula that fun can be had in small packages. We can say, with no qualifiers, that every time we got in the MX-5 and drove it we had FUN! Even if it was just heading through town to the market to pick up a couple things for dinner. How many cars can you say that about? And on top of all that, you can drop the top and let the sun shine in!
