Hi all. For my second post on the site, here's my 2005 Launch Edition that my wife bought me for my 50th birthday (in 2009).
Love it almost as much as I love her. :hug:
I've been lucky over the years as a mate owns his own auto body shop and gets a load of high end cars to repair and I get to drive many of them. Heck, I even got tired of driving Scooby's he was getting so many of them in. Some of the imports were amazing and I felt the UK was getting a poor deal with what was on offer here. Still, getting to deliver the likes of Aston's, Porkers, GT-R's, 350Z's, Audi R8, Lotus Elise amongst the more mundane motors is a nice perk of being trusted by him.
Dewi wrote:
"But then again I'm odd in that I must the only person alive who thinks the mk3 /3.5 is the best looking of all the 3 generations of MX5 (and yes I have owned a Mk1). To my eye, it's the only one that looks good from every angle and I've loved it since the first time I clapped eyes on one in the flesh - parked outside a hotel in France around 2004 or 5 ish. I knew then that I'd end up with one someday, it's a shape I never tire of looking at."
While I know this is perfectly valid:
No, you're not odd, Dewi. I've always thought that the previous Mk's were a bit............don't want to say girly............. how about 'soft'.
I do prefer the Mk1 because of the pop-up lights (and they always seem to look even better with some nice modifications on them) to the Mk2, but the Mk3 is much more 'butch' in appearance. And as said, it looks right from every angle. Maybe being physically bigger helps the Mk3, but in all honesty I probably would have gone down the S2000 route had Mazda not injected some testosterone into the Mk3 model.
Saying that, we all love our 5's, and that's what matters most of all.
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