Why did you buy an MX?

[sabik]

Just a when driving the other day this question popped into my head... Why buy an mx?

The reason I bought mine is my jeep was off the road and I fancyied something with a bit of poke and a fun drive! The MX fitted this but so do TT's, S2000's, Z3's etc..... and for some reason I didn't spend much time looking at them. Since owning my mx it did what a wanted to and has put a smile on my face..

So I guess my question is- "WHY DID YOU BUY AN MX AND NOT SOMETHING ELSE?"

[Fla]

cause I always loved them.. Have done for 15 odd years and when I was able to get a few bob together it was just about aenough for an mx5 and not a Ferrarri...!! Anyways a TT is just a golf with style and a price tag and most of the other sports cars (which must be said cant handle like a five) are way way over priced...

Plus the second I took the five for a test drive that was it, I was hooked...!

[TeenaG]

I wanted a classic car, but I also worked early mornings and needed something that wouldn't throw a rusty connection into the works at 4am.

I wasn't technical enough to keep a classic car in good enough condition myself, I couldn't afford to get someone else to do it, and at the time I also couldn't afford to run one as a second car.

Enter the MX5. Someone recommended it as a quirky little sports car with great reliability.. and 8 years ago my adventure began.

For a time the '5 graduated to being 'a second car' ... but when I noticed moss growing on the windows of the Merc, I knew it was time to give up the pretence, and now my redster roadster is back to pride of place.

[leamyj]

The devil made me do it


Real reason?.....cheaper than a mistress!!

Real Real reason...midlife crisis I suppose ( No Mike, nothing to do with you )

[shadowhearth]

I was looking for performance car, as i couldnt get insurance for skyline at that time.

So mx5 was a briliant options. It was insurable, reliable, can take tons and tons of abuse, cheap to run, extreamly fun, best handling roadster in the world...


I actually didnt cared that it was convertable, i guess that was a bonus outside of allready great packadge

i got my dream car now, but i can lay my hand on mx5 and sell it, so its stays in family and my misses driving it moust of the time. I think i will newer ever sale it... even if i wount be driving it much, it will sta in family. It will be a project for my children

[barney]

jleamy about spot on with the answer and with working 2 out of every 3 weekends it's amazing the extra few bob in my pocket, and so i can indulge my passion for cars. to sum it all up, the 5 ticks all the boxes an MG doesn't, reliability, affordable, comfortable and very very chuckable.

[TeenaG]

Cheap and chuckable she may be... but shhhhhh, she'll hear you

[robmx5]

I was working in Dublin Port way back in 1990 when I saw the first 6 MX5's in Ireland being unloaded from a boat - the first thing that attacted me was the design of the rear lights - I always promised myself that one day I would own one - it took me a few years - and it was only a 2nd hand one - automatic - but boy was it worth waiting for - now on my second.

Spideog

[Reesy]

The devil made me do it


Real reason?.....cheaper than a mistress!!

Real Real reason...midlife crisis I suppose ( No Mike, nothing to do with you )

+1 here John - right on the money.

The trigger for me was being at the funeral of a friend (young, cancer, tragic) & afterwards going down to the sea to think. Thought. 'feckitt, life is too short', went to Mazda dealer, test-drove a new Mk 2 & liked it, bought my 1991 Mk 1 shortly afterwards. That was 8 years ago. Never looked back.

[sidewaysreilly]

they go sideways so easily and controlably...........

[leamyj]

they go sideways so easily and controlably...........

most of the time

[sabik]

John they need a little space...

[Igor]

It is everything I liked about cars when I was 12.
...And I could afford it

[barney]

after being on The Isle of Man for the weekend with Cloggy and friends, i now know for sure why i bought my 5. following iom Ivan over some of the TT course was a blast.

[Navin]

I always loved cars, i'v had about 9 in ten years!!! started with toyota corollas, 3 of them one after the other! Then a bmw, then another corolla, after that a focus and then i got a mgf!! I always wanted one since i saw one for the first time when i was 12!!! i got one and i did like it but it always seemed like a toy car!!! it felt very wobbley and flimsy and it wasnt all that fast. the hg went in it then so i fixed it and sold it on. next was another bmw and then the mx5!! as you can tell i get bored of cars very quickly but not bored of my mx5 yet!!! it feels a so much better put together than the mgf and more solid. its a fun, nippy sports car for bargin money!!! its a car that i think i'll hang on to for many years. once the kids start coming along i plan on keeping it. i'll prob get a family car but hang on to the 5 for the summer and weekends away with my soon to be wife!! in another 3 years time i'll be able to tax it and insure it as a classic car so it won't cost to much to run, apart from the little presents i'd have to buy it!!!! its a stunning looking car with the roof up or down and handles like nothing else i'v driven. i must take some pics of it and put it up on here soon!!