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Title: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Andy! on 23 June 2011, 22:48
Just lately I've been fancying an mx5 hardtop.
Talk me out of it.
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Jack3559 on 23 June 2011, 22:54
Just lately I've been fancying an mx5 hardtop.
Talk me out of it.

Great cars.

(http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/8715/img7729.jpg)
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: dom on 23 June 2011, 23:05
If you go Jap it's gotta be an S2000 surely:

(http://rollingrepublic.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/ccwgold1.jpg)

(http://www.canibeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/go_simple_or_go_home5.jpg)

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5104/5611897230_3d30a22c25_b.jpg)

mx5 is do-able though:

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5251/5524396328_09582706ff.jpg)
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Jack3559 on 23 June 2011, 23:07
Couple of sillier ones:

(http://ivyleagueeast.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/DSC_9298_ps.jpg)

(http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL1109/13018910/23165207/386647407.jpg)
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Horney on 23 June 2011, 23:09
I can't help Andy, I have been having dirty thoughts of these for some time.

Nick
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Toby on 23 June 2011, 23:56
iv got jap thoughts to! just been out in mates skyline  :shocked: BOOST!!!!
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: tech1889 on 24 June 2011, 00:21
we have a mx-5 1.8 sport.. with hardtop and soft top and its great.. fantastic gearbox.. bullet proof engine.. great handling and driving experience.. sorry cant help with putting you off
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Gavv8 on 24 June 2011, 06:11
I agree, i know a few people with mx5's and they all love em, bulletproof mechanicals and great fun to drive.
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: bricey on 24 June 2011, 07:33
from a former honda nut--s2000 all the way
 :cool:
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: lemski on 24 June 2011, 08:29
Mk-5s r loads of fun. But if jap skyline, supra or s2000 are the way
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: SoundillusioN on 24 June 2011, 08:33
This might help...

No matter how well they drive, how cheap they are to buy and run compared to a skyline, s2000 etc, no matter how tempted you are.... It's a car made for girls.  Snap out of it!

(http://delapruch.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/wmface_slap_in_slow_motion.jpg)
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Len on 24 June 2011, 09:15
I love the MX5!

But would rather have a Beach Buggy for pure entertainment!
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: tobz. on 24 June 2011, 09:33
Gay, besides you ain't got enough hair!
If you want 2-seater fun you know it's all about old and british :wink:
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: archie837 on 24 June 2011, 10:09
RX7 over MX5. Otherwise it's gotta be a 200sx for me s13/14/15 they're all nice!
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Len on 24 June 2011, 10:52
Gay, besides you ain't got enough hair!
If you want 2-seater fun you know it's all about old and british :wink:

Has he got any hair? :grin:
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: AlanD on 24 June 2011, 10:58
Apparently its illegal to have a ricer roadster that doesn't have insane camber !? :shocked:
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: delirical on 24 June 2011, 11:09
http://autotrendcar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Civic-Mugen-RR.jpg

Yum
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: mellow yellow on 24 June 2011, 11:36
a lad from my town has an mx-5 hardtop, wide arches, lotus rear diffuser, 9.5 rears, turbo'd, stripped and caged, soon to be painted..

i'll get some pics when its done, nearly got some in its current state this week..
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Seanl on 24 June 2011, 12:17
Too many bigging them up, its not right! :angry:

By all means get an mx5 if;

1. You are homosexual hairdresser

2. You are currently going through a mid-life crisis

3. You are homosexual hairdresser

I know 1 + 3 are the same but its doubly true. No one envies a bloke who drives an mazda and they deffinately dont turn heads!  :grin:
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: delirical on 24 June 2011, 12:40
Sssshhhh, go for a sail, there is a nice breeze outside  :grin:
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Len on 24 June 2011, 14:08
He might be a number 2 now! :grin:
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Chris-White on 24 June 2011, 14:22
Too many bigging them up, its not right! :angry:

By all means get an mx5 if;

1. You are homosexual hairdresser

2. You are currently going through a mid-life crisis

3. You are homosexual hairdresser

I know 1 + 3 are the same but its doubly true. No one envies a bloke who drives an mazda and they deffinately dont turn heads!  :grin:

I envy them when i see how quick they are on track, how much of a hoot they are to drive, and how cheap they are to buy run and mod.
Plus with very little done to them (nice wheels, little drop etc) i think they very quickly loose the hairdresser image.
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Horney on 24 June 2011, 14:26
Too many bigging them up, its not right! :angry:

By all means get an mx5 if;

1. You are homosexual hairdresser

2. You are currently going through a mid-life crisis

3. You are homosexual hairdresser

I know 1 + 3 are the same but its doubly true. No one envies a bloke who drives an mazda and they deffinately dont turn heads!  :grin:

I envy them when i see how quick they are on track, how much of a hoot they are to drive, and how cheap they are to buy run and mod.
Plus with very little done to them (nice wheels, little drop etc) i think they very quickly loose the hairdresser image.

+1. Blinkers in full effect on this thread.

nick
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Jay on 24 June 2011, 14:36
And it's never break being Jap  :smug: :lipsrsealed:

If I could afford a Golf GTI or MX5 as a weekend toy/project (of the same monetary value), I know what I'd have  :wink:



Hint: It wouldn't be German
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: R32UK on 24 June 2011, 15:43
they are a bit sh1t really! look at how much of a cnut that guy looks like trying to get out of one!!
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: AlanD on 24 June 2011, 15:46
they are a bit sh1t really! look at how much of a cnut that guy looks like trying to get out of one!!

Genuine crying hahaha :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: lee-n-lottie on 24 June 2011, 17:09
if i were to go jap i would be going for a starlet or glanza turbo, mental cars.... lots of fun and from a 1.3!!

Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Jimp on 24 June 2011, 17:39
Mx-5 threads are becoming so regular that I'm thinking about them too  :lipsrsealed: I pass a red one that's dropped slightly every day on the way to work and a black one that's stock at work. They look so damn good lowered, even only a small drop  :lipsrsealed:
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Dave_IOW on 25 June 2011, 02:58
if i were to go jap i would be going for a starlet or glanza turbo, mental cars.... lots of fun and from a 1.3!!



Even more fun when you put the Paseo 1.5 bottom end on them  :afro:
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: bored_Welsh_lad on 25 June 2011, 10:33
if i were to go jap i would be going for a starlet or glanza turbo, mental cars.... lots of fun and from a 1.3!!



Even more fun when you put the Paseo 1.5 bottom end on them  :afro:

FWD though... MX5 Turbo.. Drifting fun!!

I know it looks sh!t but listen to this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPyZ-_v9BmQ&feature=related

Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: lee-n-lottie on 25 June 2011, 11:15
if i were to go jap i would be going for a starlet or glanza turbo, mental cars.... lots of fun and from a 1.3!!



Even more fun when you put the Paseo 1.5 bottom end on them  :afro:

its crazy ive seen some pushing 300bhp! and their very light.... i had a bash in my brother in laws and it was like a rocket on wheels that you could steer! plus it handled like it was on rails!! was well impressed
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Dave_IOW on 25 June 2011, 12:10
yeah theres a couple down here, 300whp one for sale and my mates got a semi-standard one with tein coilovers on and boost cranked up abit, good fun aint they..

Limited Edition Starlet if i got one, gotta love the LSD as standard  :cool:
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: lee-n-lottie on 25 June 2011, 15:38
My Wife used to have one before we met, was a gt advance... ive seen pics and its the best looking starlet i have ever seen... will try find them and post them, she wanted another starlet but i wanted a mk4 1.8t, i got my own way but now she loves the golf :)
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Dan34 on 25 June 2011, 20:51
Good ol' rice burners.
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: Mr Blue on 25 June 2011, 21:01
You are gay.

that is all  :smiley:
Title: Re: Help me! The japs are coming!
Post by: bored_Welsh_lad on 26 June 2011, 11:09
You are gay.

that is all  :smiley:

My god, this guys hilarious..