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Why I love my MX5 hardtop


I can quite honestly say that the only other car I have owned that has been as much fun to own and in particular drive, was an old school mark one mini back when I was a young and carefree seventeen year old. I always loved the freedom I felt when I passed my driving test but also all the fun I had driving – what was practically a go cart! Today, I am the proud owner of an MX5 hardtop. Owning an MX5 is just as much fun and still has that classic car look about it. It has beautiful sleek lines and undulating curves which reflects the sky off its bonnet as you go cruising through the country lanes.

Apart from the drive, the open top is the best feature for me. It has added that extra luxury of what has always been a hobby and passion. It was strange when I first owned an open top car in terms of being able to feel the wind and sun on your head and also be able to see birds of prey flying overhead without having to crane your neck to try and spot them through your windscreen.

The MX5 drive is a pleasure, it takes corners like a dream and the acceleration is enough for me to feel like its doing something! It isn’t so fast that it is scary but it certainly isn’t so slow that it feels like a toy – everything is balanced in this car; the poise, the steering, the gear change and the exhaust notes are all in perfect harmony. I find it hard not to smile every time I get in to drive it – A stupid kid-like grin plasters my face especially when I open her up on an open road.

The U.K’s favourite car journalist, Jeremy Clarkson reviewed the Mazda MX5 as “this is the kind of gay I adore”. For a large man I can understand where he is coming from – it can be seen for a man as a ‘hairdresser’s car’ but once you have experienced the fun you can have in what is a very reasonably priced sports car with all the talk, this will truly seem irrelevant and shallow. The ones that say these preposterous things are the ones that are missing out, as there must be a reason why the Mazda MX5 is the world’s biggest selling sports car.

Go on re-live your youth and get yourself one!

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