Ownership Of My MX-5

Well what can I say! Sheer brilliance, exciting, fun, cute, sexy, reliable describes this car. And it did get an award in the Autocar awards taking the title of '‘Best Handling Car 2003'’. The Mazda MX-5 beat the Porsche 911 GT3, BMW Z4, and Noble M12 GTO 3-R, proving the Mazda MX-5's driving dynamics still offer tremendous driving pleasure. "The Mazda MX-5 offers as much pleasure as a Porsche 911 GT3 regardless of how fast you drive it," enthused Autocar.

This is one of the reason i bought this car. I did spend a few months searching for the right car, if i can rightly remember about 6-7 months of looking and searching. I narrowed it down to wanting a 1.8 litre in my favourite color black. As i was researching for the car i purchased the following book: Mazda MX-5 Renaissance Sportscar by Brian Long.

This little book was a great starting point in getting to know this famous sports car, giving an insight into the production of the cars design and engineering. And also described the various specification of the MX-5 in the different marketing regions of the world.

The specifications of the car differed alot from the market regions which include America, Asia, Europe, Australia. I wanted the UK spec MX-5 and not a Japanese import. To cut a long story short i decide to go for the special limited edition model, and the only 'black number' they did in the UK was the MX-5 Classic which is finished in brilliant black, and feature the following

• Black leather with red stitching
• Five spoke alloy wheels
• Mohoganey wood trim
• A stainless steel brace bar
• Polished treadplates
• MOMO leather steering wheel
• Floor mats in black with red edging

And the list price for this model back in 1997 was £17,495 on-the-road. I paid £6k for it in July 2005 at that point the car was around 8 years old. Sounds expensive i here you say, well the car only had 42,000 mile on the clock with a full service history. But having been my first ever car, i thought 'what heck you only young once' so i decided to purchase.

Once i bought it home all the family were in shock, it was the so funny seeing their reation to the little sports car. First thing my grandma said 'now you got a car, you need a girlfriend in their too'. They thought i would buy a small car like a Nissan Micra or a boy racer Corsa. But my dream became a reality which then led to where the fun begins, MODIFICATIONS!!!!!!!!!!

Oh no! Another boy racer with go racing strips and fuffy dice with tacky neon lights. Thats not my style, I like to keep things tasteful, and not go over the top. So the first modification for the car was a Jackson Racing Exhaust System, was expensive but i think was worth every penny. The car did lack the sporty sound because of the OEM exhaust, and i thought this is a sports car and wanted the sound too!!! Its loud when you want it to be, keep the revs at 3500rpm and change into 2nd gear all you can here the Bbboouwww!

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to be continued........