On 4/27/2012 11:43 PM, Professor wrote:
> On 4/27/2012 6:02 PM, XS11E wrote:
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/26/2012 8:02 PM, XS11E wrote:
>>>> That time is very nearly up, driving the car is now a painful
>>>> experience and I notice my shifts are no longer smooth so it'll
>>>> have to go soon but if it were an automatic I could keep it.....
>>>> maybe? Maybe not, I don't think it would be as much fun with an
>>>> automatic.
>>> I can't speak for any other countries, but here in Canada the MX-5
>>> is available with a " 6-speed Sport mode automatic transmission
>>> with overdrive and paddle shifters". Seems like a possible
>>> alternative.
>> It's available here as well but that's only in the newer models and
>> they're out of my price range, plus it seems that the "A" type are the
>> only Miata's I can fit into?
>>
>> I wrote a long essay here when the "C" type first came out about how I
>> wanted so much to like it but it was so miserably uncomfortable I gave
>> up on it after about an hour's drive. (Thanks again to a GREAT sales
>> man who rode with me to a gas station, used the dealer's credit card to
>> fill the car and had me drive him back to the dealership where he got
>> out and told me, "Don't be in a hurry to bring it back!"
>>
>> After the cupholder on the door cut my left leg in half and the
>> throttle position destroyed my right ankle I WAS in a hurry to bring it
>> back!
>>
>> "C" types are for people a little shorter than 6' 4"..... My 92 fits
>> just fine! I can't move around in it and I don't get in it, I put it
>> on, but it's comfortable once I'm in!
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Well, I've got the opposite problem.
> I'm short...... extremely short.
> When I sat in an MX-5 at the latest car show, I had to move the seat up
> so far in order to clutch to the floor,
> the steering wheel was in my chest like a NASCAR driver.
> Is it just in the last couple of years that the paddles were available?
>
> Professor
>
>
>

Actually, that is a problem with the B's as well.
Seems that all the "extra stuff" in the steering column was to blame,
and Mazda never bothered to correct it. I'm also of "average" height,
and end up moving the seat forward for in town driving, and all the way
back for the road.