Author – Qaga User: Chris Walker
I didn't understand why Indians like to eat curry before, it is said that eating curry can make you sweat, but it is cooler, where is the spicy cooling so to speak? But after driving this Miata, I understood that this is really the case.
The all-black interior plus leather seats are a steamer in the summer, the leather seats are completely airless, the car is like a baking pan anytime and anywhere, and the flat and hard seats and tight space make passengers feel more like fish in cans. The towering drive shaft eats up most of the storage space in the car, and the mobile phone can only be tucked into the net pocket on the door panel, but any bag does not know where to put it.
The air conditioner is very difficult to use, when the shed is closed, the wind is not cool enough, and the wind is small and cannot blow on the face. The most terrible thing is that this Miata does not have an air conditioning filter, and after half an hour of opening, the tonsils are in pain, and it is not cool at all.
Opening the open top is the correct way to deal with it, and the environment with air inlet on all sides is indeed much more comfortable than turning on the air conditioner. But this is only limited to when moving, when stuck in traffic you will only sweat wildly in this "Matsuda" brand pan, but when the car is driven, it will harvest double coolness, just like eating curry blowing hot air, as cool as eating curry blowing hot air.
The 2.0-liter naturally aspirated engine naturally cannot expect much power, but the sound of the engine running when the shed is open becomes extremely direct. Although stepping on the throttle into the cabin will not be faster than the current mainstream family sedan, the low sitting posture, the original and mechanical driving experience will give you enough time to enjoy the thrill of the full operation of the machine, and the wind that penetrates the hair gap takes away not only the noise of the irritable summer day, but also the pressure of the adult world at this moment.
The gearbox is a snake gear 6AT with a decade of age, but the performance in the M gear can still be regarded as remarkable, before subtracting and adding two card slots will not eat any reasonable shift instructions, the response even if it is put and today's Aisin 6AT ratio is not bad, but the smoothness will be a lot worse. But who cares? D stop is not unusable.
Steering wheel shifts in that era were not as good as they are now, and the combination of paddles and buttons was always confusing. But the logic similar to Porsche at that time was nothing to be black, or did not say that Mazda was Porsche Hiroshima? It's just that the performance of this Miata on the road can only be said to be average, the front of the car responds quickly, but the rear is very lazy. When you enter the corner, you can clearly feel that even if the front of the car is actively entering the corner, there is a lot of delay between the dynamics of the rear and the front of the car. Comfort is also not good, the large compression damping makes the bumps of the road surface become particularly obvious, and the potholed urban roads are obviously not suitable for this kind of mechanical and happy sports car.
If the Miata were to be treated as a car for daily commuting, she would naturally be unqualified, with the day's accumulated fatigue making it impossible for her to step into the cockpit where her legs could not be extended, and her tortured spine could not withstand the further devastation from the suspension. And when you're not running for a living, Miata can give you endless happiness, safe and refreshing driving experience and wonderful interaction with the world. The motivation to drive in order to drive is long gone in today's anxious world, but in Miata, enduring the gradual swelling and pain of the tonsils, you still have the right to smile like a child without troubles.
She is like the curry in the lunch box of an Indian office worker, the watermelon in the refrigerator in the hot summer, the braised beef noodles of Master Kong on the green-skinned train, the simple and pure happiness is actually very close to us, open the ceiling, you will have the whole world.