Looking at buying a MX5

[GG.]

I can't help it if people won't see sense

[Jobbo]

Do Eporsch offer some sort of warranty covering IMS failure?

[GG.]

6 months parts and labour warranty (in house) is noted to be included though obviously I don't have the details of any excluded items / whether the IMS is covered / caps on claims. Hard for them to exclude it I would have thought without looking like very sharp operators.

Was that intended to be a pointed rhetorical question or are you now interested in these again for £7.5k?

[Jobbo]

No, the IMS bearing failure is so sudden and unpredictable yet expensive that I'd never have one.

[16vCento]

I test drove a 2.0 and it was nice, felt a bit soft but that's easily remedied.

Flows very well between corners, nice low seating position shame there isn't more adjustment on the steering wheel.

Just looking for a decent one now

[McSwede]

http://www.eporsch.co.uk/listings/2004- ... 2s-manual/

Slightly higher miles at 95k but a 2004 260hp S from a dealer, just had a major service by them and with 6 months parts and labour warranty for £7.5k which is the same price as your BBR modded S3 MX5.

I'd have the MK3 BBR everytime over a Boxster. They just look like a tarts car to me.

I have a MK1 MX5 and it's a super little thing (dim distant memory as it's been instorage so long!). 120bhp and skinny tyres were always a hoot and the the whole experience was so enjoyable. I could have immense fun at reasonably sane speeds. And with winter tyres on in the snow it was a awesome!

[Rich B]

Mk3 MX5 vs Boxster, and you wouldn’t have the boxster because it’s a tarts car?!

There’s a lot of ways to justify one over the other, but that is about the strangest!

That’s like saying you would choose Jordan over Jessica Ennis because Ennis is a bimbo!

[Carlos]

[duncs500]

I'd have the MK3 BBR everytime over a Boxster. They just look like a tarts car to me.

To be fair Rich, he doesn't state which car he is referring to in the second sentence. He could just as easily be saying he'd have the MX5 because they "look like a tarts car".

[GG.]

I'd have the MK3 BBR everytime over a Boxster. They just look like a tarts car to me.

To be fair Rich, he doesn't state which car he is referring to in the second sentence. He could just as easily be saying he'd have the MX5 because they "look like a tarts car".

That’d be pretty much the only universe in which that comment makes any logical sense

I was going to say there is precious little in the world that’s more effeminate than an MX5 but the sportka convertible does trump it I guess.

[MikeHunt]

Sadly the Porches of that era, especially the Boxter were built to a budget.

[GG.]

Yep, you’re right. 1930s was probably peak porch. One of those interwar semis should do you nicely.

There is merit in that accusation on interior quality (though again, very marginal versus a humdrum Mazda interior). That would be why I’d spend ever so slightly more on a 2005 on 987 with a vastly better interior and to my eyes greatly improved exterior styling too.

[JLv3.0]

You positively refuse to let this one go, don't you

HE DOESN'T WANT A BOXSTER!!

[GG.]

Yep - I’m in large part keeping this going just to annoy you JL

[JLv3.0]

I don't believe that at all

[JonMad]

Rather than buying a std one then converting yourself, how much are ready made ones of these going for (if any even exist for sale)?

[Jimmy Choo]

I was going to say there is precious little in the world that’s more effeminate than an MX5 but the sportka convertible does trump it I guess.

A Micra CC beats your SportKa in the effeminate stakes.

[GG.]

I was going to say there is precious little in the world that’s more effeminate than an MX5 but the sportka convertible does trump it I guess.

A Micra CC beats your SportKa in the effeminate stakes.

I also subsequently remembered the Daihatsu Copen. So it’s been bumped off the podium in the girly soft roadster stakes too

[David_Yu]

Guess I need to give a mk1 mx5 a try then and see what the fuss is about. Until then, Chris Harris' summation of "good, not remarkable" is going to leave a pretty big question in my mind as to how much people rate them very highly firmly in the context of them being cheap and basic good fun.

Everyone ignored my post (nothing new there), but Chris seems to agree with me.
Absolutely nothing special.

And yes, I think a Boxster S or even, as I said earlier, a Mk3 MR2 is a much better, more special car to drive.

Even Mazda never intended the MX5 to be a the last word in hardcore drivers' cars, just a reliable MGB/Frogeye Sprite.

I love the idea of one with the V8 though!

[speedingfine]

Rather than buying a std one then converting yourself, how much are ready made ones of these going for (if any even exist for sale)?

Bit steep - https://www.mx5oc.co.uk/forum/yaf_posts ... Mk3-5.aspx

IMO if you're in the market for something sub £2k though, an MR2 is a much better drivers car (assuming both cars are standard)