Mazda Dealers Put The Crack Pipe Down

AutoXR wrote: Just import a car... RIV is $250 AC tax is $100 (if it has it) Then you pay taxes. The car's title has to sit at the border for 72Hrs. 1 way flights out of Buffalo or Syracuse To Fla. N.C , AZ and all the good rust free states are less then $200. It's not a hassel at all. a Hassel is using a plasma cutter to get out suspension bolts that are rusted. or finding someone has used mono foam to repare rockers.. Ect...

It's true. Swapping shocks and springs on my 97 (florida car) was don't with just open end wrenches and everything came off easy.

The exact same shock and spring swap on my canadian car involved grinding off 4 bolt heads. Cutting out one of my excentric bolts and then pressing it out of the bushing, drilling out one of the rear shock mount bolts from underneath, huge amounts of penetrating oil, impact wrench, and cheater pipes and I still haven't got the rear excentric bolts loose so I can align it.

My next miata will have grown up in the US.

Yup. Go South, young man. I live in Birmingham, Al, and when I'm looking for Miatas I fire up Craigslist and look all over the southern US. I've gone and gotten Miatas in Atlanta, Nashville, and Tampa. I even bought one about ten miles from home once.

If you work at it a bit you can find a very nice car with a reasonable price tag... although as noted above, you are now starting to shop right in prime time, prices will be up a bit.

What's a Miata? I have never heard them mentioned on this board before.

I was faced with as similar dilemma when looking for a Miata, there are no good cars available in Canada unless you want to pay $$$. I looked at the U.S. but ended up picking up a 2006 in Canada through a lease takeover. The guy gave me a bunch of cash plus a free set of snow tires. Plus it had only 32,000km on it!

Well gents, I'm close to closing a deal on a 97 BRG w/leather and a hardtop 183,000kms for $6k. A little high but the body is clean, it comes with a torsen LSD and a hardtop and its a much nicer place to be than a 1.6 A package (much of what I was looking at). Going to have my mechanic take a look at it, the only downside is I need summer rubber as it only comes with winters. Thinking of finding nice 14" summer tires or just buying used 15" with tires (prob the same price).

Man If Miata's were as cool as P71's.... would this conversation be happening?