Is the MX-5 NC girly?

[ProjectWHaT]

Apparently this just happened.

I'm afraid my school would have acted the same. Oddly, the reasons he gave as to why would be the same ones I'd list.

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/t...-weeks-at-his-high-school-in-texas-96021.html

Story is a fake.

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https://www.carthrottle.com/post/re...llied-at-school-turns-out-his-story-was-fake/

 

[Darragh]

Sorry to sort of dig this thread out of the grave, but I'm also now looking around for my first car and this car has really caught my attention! Just by chance I managed to find this thread and was horrified to see so many people thinking it is a 'hairdresser's car'!

To the OP, that's such a nice Mazda you have, I hope it's not giving any trouble so far! I'd probably be getting a model lower down to that, as my allowance is anywhere up to €4,500. I'm really looking for a car with a small engine and one that tells petrolheads that I am a petrolhead! This is a driver's car and would certainly be one of the best handling cars in that price range. However I really don't want the slagging in college that I have a 'girlie' car!

 

[Dagger311]

Sorry to sort of dig this thread out of the grave, but I'm also now looking around for my first car and this car has really caught my attention! Just by chance I managed to find this thread and was horrified to see so many people thinking it is a 'hairdresser's car'!

To the OP, that's such a nice Mazda you have, I hope it's not giving any trouble so far! I'd probably be getting a model lower down to that, as my allowance is anywhere up to €4,500. I'm really looking for a car with a small engine and one that tells petrolheads that I am a petrolhead! This is a driver's car and would certainly be one of the best handling cars in that price range. However I really don't want the slagging in college that I have a 'girlie' car!

Get an NA, track tune it.

No one will call you girly.

Or, just stop caring about what other people think of your car. That works better.

 

[Darragh]

Get an NA, track tune it.

No one will call you girly.

Or, just stop caring about what other people think of your car. That works better.

I've searched for a few of them and they do like nice as well. However I'd be a bit concerned about the age of the cars, considering we're looking at roughly 20 year old cars. They have the pop-up lights as well if I'm not mistaken? Thanks for the advice

 

[ildd]

Nb is best Miata kind, as a whole and on the market. They won't be rusted to hell like a fair bit of NAs, while still maintaining that NA driving experience that the NC doesn't, but still is quite comfy. It's literally the best of both worlds.

And for what it's worth, in (almost) 6 months of having mine ive only heard one person say my car is girly; that person is a raging lesbian that is American to the bone. She's a badass tho so i just gave her a warning.

 

[numbnuts70]

Nb is best Miata kind, as a whole and on the market. They won't be rusted to hell like a fair bit of NAs, while still maintaining that NA driving experience that the NC doesn't, but still is quite comfy. It's literally the best of both worlds.

And for what it's worth, in (almost) 6 months of having mine ive only heard one person say my car is girly; that person is a raging lesbian that is American to the bone. She's a badass tho so i just gave her a warning.

This is interesting as the general consensus on MX-5 forums here in the UK has the NB as the one to be wary of for terminal rust issues (front chassis rails mainly) which are easily missed and can make a generally sound looking car on the outside, be consigned to the scrap heap.

Imo, you can't beat the pop-up headlights and unadulterated looks of an NA.

The original and still the best.

But yes, the NC is the girliest of all MX-5 due to the cosmetic addition of the electric hardtop foisted upon the car to appeal to the 'too posh to pull up the hood by hand' hairdresser brigade in case they break a nail.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

In the right color, with the right wheels, and with a drop, the NC looks probably the toughest of all the MX-5s

Having never actually liked the NC before (especially the NC1) I've now decided it is in my top 5 2000's designs.

Ironically, I saw the "gulf" car just this past sunday. It has actually been re-wrapped and now looks like this...

 

[homeforsummer]

This is interesting as the general consensus on MX-5 forums here in the UK has the NB as the one to be wary of for terminal rust issues (front chassis rails mainly) which are easily missed and can make a generally sound looking car on the outside, be consigned to the scrap heap.

Indeed. Mazda wasn't quite as thorough on rustproofing with the NB as it was with the NA, and as a result any NB that's lived in a damp climate is likely to have the same issues as an NA - despite being a decade newer than the equivalent NA.

Incidentally, NCs are similarly likely to suffer in future, if perhaps to not the same extent, as NCs still have the same design of drainage channel that clogs up and starts dumping water into the sills to rot them out from the inside. They're just a little too new to have worked their way inside out yet...