Congrats man. If you have any twisties nearby Miata’s are unbeatable. Would still say my dads nd is more fun than my e92 m3 -sound on a good b road. Heard the same from a lot of rich folks at track days. They want a gt3rs and a Miata

Idc what issues it has if the last owner was an old lady it’s in better condition than 90% of thrashed Miata’s by 6 owners

Gotta agree. Got an e92 m3 right now with the 7spd dct. So much fun. Woulda loved a manual but there were precisely two for sale on the whole west coast in the 6 months leading up to my purchase and it was a daily driver anyway

Yea it always feels bad. Like maybe they just built these things to shift 5x what they used to to squeeze that extra 5mpg during the test

I mean it’s pretty clear especially being a California resident that it’s to keep mpg averages down over the fleet. And agreed the zf8 is great but so soulless. Gotta disagree on dcts tho. I have an e92 m3 and whoooo boy those downshifts are so nasty cuz it actually gives gas to downshift unlike torque converter automatics

The shifts are very fast, my issue was the programming. For specifically delivery driving it just upshifts too quickly. When I’m weighed down it will over upshift to like 4th by 15mph and I either have to bog the engine or almost floor it to get it back to 2nd. It ends up being a constant shift fest where as soon as it upshifts back to 5th or 6th I immediately need it back in 3rd. To the point where I just keep it in manual now so I can force it to stay in the power band for longer than .5 seconds

But as a car enthusiast I would love to see that idea

Don’t you need a lot of power to get that going though? May as well just use full electric and skip that step