My little review of the MX5 (update)

So I decided to buy the Mazda MX5..............

Review:

I haven't driven it lots yet but so far here's what I can say about it.

Handling is better than Silvias. IMO. Acceleration isn't as good as Silvias however. Top speed is better. Street Sport Tuned it can do 244 km/h, so not too bad at all.

The car isn't twitchy but it isn't boaty either. I think it's just right. It isn't as understeery as C10, which is 1 of my gripes about that car. This car is neutral, which I like.

It is stable off jumps, no snap oversteer.

Braking is fairly decent...... so above average.....

It looks better than Silvia & C10 IMO though wheels are a little lame.

I've tried crashing it into traffic cars and it actually doesn't slow the mx-5 down a lot, which I consider surprising. Edit: Does fairly well against the cops 2, quite surprising!

Anyways, so far so good!

Hope I helped!

Edit: Did a couple races and TEs today.

First race: Kempton Docks against a guy in a Chevelle (well tuned) forgot what level. Anyways I beat by him just a tiny margin cuz he didn't show on the results screen. Cuz of that, did not take a screenshot.

TE: All In w/ 2 other MX5s and a Zack. Observed that it does fairly well against cops as well as spikes.

Second race: Savannah Street against a well tuned Z4 (around my level). Beat him by a huge margin!



See? Not too bad at all! I this car!

Guess what I won from the race btw? Something not available in store I think..... Lumox Smokeout Black Tint



Pretty Lucky, eh?

Ugh, the Silvia and the C10 look so much better than the MX-5 in my opinion. And I'd take both of them over the Mazda quite honestly. For me, looks goes first when choosing a car.

Very nice review. check out my showroom: http://www.nogcommunity.com/t1921-the-new-showroom-of-the-dog to see what my second MX5 looks like.

PepsRocks wrote:Ugh, the Silvia and the C10 look so much better than the MX-5 in my opinion. And I'd take both of them over the Mazda quite honestly. For me, looks goes first when choosing a car.

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A couple of you guys already ran against my C10 and lost. I beat colts 959 @ Verona tunnel and I forgot who's MR2.

I will not lie, I love the c10. Even more so than my BMW M3 GTR.

on topic:
I only ran the mx-5 stock in two races (sp) and I almost got beat by a silvia. I put a few parts on it and it increased immensely, but I would say it's a s15 in a mx-5's body and nothing more.

this car is ok in my books, i just got it.... i personaly liked the way it looked, drove nicely, and felt in controll of it... when i put the stock parts the stats and driving went up alot, which might mean putting pro parts will make this little guy one of the best...

NFSKJG wrote:A couple of you guys already ran against my C10 and lost. I beat colts 959 @ Verona tunnel and I forgot who's MR2.

I will not lie, I love the c10. Even more so than my BMW M3 GTR.

on topic:
I only ran the mx-5 stock in two races (sp) and I almost got beat by a silvia. I put a few parts on it and it increased immensely, but I would say it's a s15 in a mx-5's body and nothing more.

dude u beat my chevelle not my 959, remember?

Sake_Chun wrote:this car is ok in my books, i just got it.... i personaly liked the way it looked, drove nicely, and felt in controll of it... when i put the stock parts the stats and driving went up alot, which might mean putting pro parts will make this little guy one of the best...

My thoughts exactly..........

I'm really considering getting it after buying my Corvette ($300k to go...) but if it comes to garage space, I've got a Scirocco, Cosworth, and Chevelle right now (C-raziness lol) and I am planning to sell the Scirocco, but its got some great parts on it (like some 12% brakes) and they're all providing at least 6% improvement in each stat they affect...

Now I tried the Silvia and Supra, and I must say I didn't like them all that much. But I just used store parts, I didn't invest much in them unless I was highly impressed with them. For now, my Chevelle is my T1 and my Cossie is my T2.

Well u will be highly impressed w/ the MX-5 (hopefully )

Update 2: Just a couple more races I did.....



Against IIIKJG's Chevelle. Keep in mind that Peps (in a UberBunny I think) started 19 seconds behind cuz of sync issues, so he would've finished ahead of KJG and behind me.



Lost this time..... Chevelle is still slightly better unless u r on really, really, twisty tracks



Got beaten by the Renault Clio......

Also, I got matched against a Murci, M3 GTR, Daytona Coupe, Subie Hatch, Supra, ISF and Evo-X on Heritage & Campus I think.....

Results: 1st: Murci (well, duh)
2nd: M3 GTR (duh again)
3rd: Daytona Coupe
4th: Subie Hatch
5th: ME (MX-5)
6th: Supra
7th: IS-F
DNF: Evo-X

So the MX-5 isn't too bad at all..... And remember, all those races I did were with a STREET SPORT parted MX-5.