Jaxmadine wrote: Nothing like a supercharged miata to brighten your life.
Just booting the Manic Miata in second gear will make my wife squeak. I took her for one - one - autocross pass in it. She hooted the entire time, then got out pretty much as soon as we cleared the stop box.
sethmeister4 wrote: Description under the video: "2011 Caterham R400 scares Car Dealer's staff writer Batch on a national speed limit Welsh road"
Guess I didn't look very hard. 
His name is James Batchelor, as of January he became the editor of Car Dealer magazine. http://cardealermagazine.co.uk/publish/james-batchelor-appointed-editor-of-car-dealer-magazine/71433
He should learn something from this "guy" 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pm3aJtHMHs&NR=1&feature=endscreen
When we take people for rides in the various FM cars, they either start laughing like maniacs or they get really quiet. Thing is, you can't tell from that reaction who's going to come back and build one of the cars for themselves.
Haven't actually scared anyone for a while - although I did have a pretty well-seasoned driving instructor bracing for a crash when she was in the Targa Miata. Not used to what a rally suspension can do with braking in the middle of an off-camber corner, I guess...
sethmeister4 wrote: That was a great video! Yes, I'm stereotyping,
It's hard NOT to stereotype or at least make a leap of faith guess in this case.
You know the reason we have stereotypes don't you? It's because they are examples, not exaggerations, of the majority of that sub group in real life. In other words it comes from real life observations. So most stereotypes are generally true.
I'd like to see the kid in something with more power... and less grip.... 
oldeskewltoy wrote: I'd like to see the kid in something with more power... and less grip....
I'm betting his seat lost some of it's grip towards the end. I wonder if they ever got the smell out?
Spinout007 wrote: I politely tell him, yes it is tiny, yes you get a lot of looks and jokes driving it, but its really light, and you know what a really light car is good for? "Uh huh" THIS! drop it into second and hammer it about 150' before the first hard left, brake at the last second for the turn, and proceed to push it through the rest of em, drifting the last two. By the time we got back he wanted one, screw what everyone else says.
A ride like that in my uncle's BMW 1600 (I was 7 or 8) is probably why I'm an import guy.
That's far from the first man to have handled a car ride less than gracefully...And certainly won't be the last.
HOLY E36 M3 WE'RE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE GODDAMNED ROAD!!! 
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