Re: The Perfect Crash - or - a miracle? (nmc)

Dana Myers wrote:

> Anyway, let's get back on topic.  There's no need to
> maintain an anti-SUV campaign on the Miata newsgroup.
> "Love Miata" does not equal "Hate SUV".  Let's just stop
> now.
>
> Dana

Love Miata does not equal interested in RX-7/RX-8. It's nice how you 
only want to get back on topic when the subject offends you. This smells 
strongly of hypocrisy. From the post below, it looks like it is even ok 
to put down a vehicle, like the 1st generation RX-7, as long as it isn't 
 what you drive. How many times have you mentioned your Trailblazer in 
this newsgroup that has nothing to do with Trailblazers. Like I said, 
for you to make any mention of staying on topic is pure hyposcrisy.



> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  jeffegordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> I used to love the old RX7 (Type I?) with pop up headlights. It was
>> very cool and loved the sound of the engine.
>>
>> Is the RX8 every bit as good and even better?
>
>
>
> Are you kidding? That's like comparing a Miata to a Pinto. While 
endearing in some ways, the 1st-generation 7 was a rolling disaster, a 
ticking bomb if hopped up to make respectable power.


Are you implying it wasn't a ticking bomb under normal
circumstances?

> It was simple, fun, and cheap, but crude. It didn't even have 
independent rear suspension or rear disc brakes.
>
> The RX-7 is a world-class touring car on a sports car chassis.


Interesting.  Leon, typically one of the most, if not the most by a
wide margin, precise people I've ever met (in 23 years of engineering,
that's saying someting) managed to subtract one from the integer portion
of RX-7 to yield RX-6.  That was odd, but we're all human once in while.
You, another of the most consistently accurate posters to r.a.m.m.miata,
managed to subtract one from RX-8 to get RX-7, which worked out to be
considerably more confusing.

I'm just waiting for Jake, like a metronome, to find a reason to dispute
anything I write (gawd I love my Trailblazer's motor) and especially to
protest continued discussion of rotary Mazdas.

Shame on me.  I'm a stinker at the moment.  Please forgive me.



Dana