S2000 vs 2019 MX-5

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Aug 5, 2019 | 08:01 AM

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Originally Posted by JasonMG

Kudos for going to a neat color when you needed a respray. So many people just stay with boring stock colors.

Also... older Tacomas.. Ugh. The rust. Then again, my father got a crazy deal when his was recalled. He was given a large lump sum of cash for his recalled Tacoma which was enough to buy a new one... and zero percent financing on the new one. So he kept the cash and got a new truck with zero percent financing (he's an investor, so he made money off the money, too). It was a huge win/win/win. He's friends with the guy who owns that dealership, not sure if he got special treatment or that was the norm.

My family has had GM/Toyota/Honda and I feel like the Toyota's and Honda's were nearly trouble free. I did have a Toyota hybrid system blow out when I was doing 90MPH in rush hour traffic on a 105 degree day (part of a recall I had yet to do). That was scary as hell since I was in the fast lane and had to scoot over four lanes. Most of my cars were GM or Chrysler and they were never super expensive to fix but they seemed to need something or other every year or two. My Jeep Wrangler (2013 10A) has been dead reliable so far, though.

Oh yeah, and I still feel that the S2000 has a soul and the Miata does not.

The frame rust was on a particular set of year models. And it was VERY well taken care of by Toyota. I met a guy last year who just bought and old Tacoma and while at a dealership for some maintenance (no idea why people are paying dealer prices for maintenance but that is besides the point) they noticed his was one of the frame rust ones. Frame was nearly broken in the rear. He told them that he bought it for very little as a work truck and would just sell it for scrap rather than try to fix that. Their response? "No, this rust issue will be fixed by Toyota for FREE". They replaced the frame on a nearly 20 year old truck that had had multiple owners free of charge. Said it has around 300,000 miles on it and everything else is pretty much in perfect working order.

Regarding the soul ... while the ND (in STR prep) is more capable on an autox course than my S2k, I will say that the S is more "fun" to me to drive and does have more soul. Granted though, I have only driven said ND Miata for a total of 17 autox runs, so I am still feeling the car out compared to my S which I have had for 5 years now, so that could change. But overall I feel ths S is more smile inducing and has more overall character. Not taking away from the ND, as it is a very fun and very capable vehicle. Its also the first Miata I really ever liked the looks of that much.... still could be improved but a lot better looking than the old ones IMO