On Jul 23, 4:12*pm, John McGaw > wrote:
> On 7/23/2010 3:23 PM, pws wrote:
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> > If you were to lose your current Miata today, be it totaled, stolen,
> > whatever, and received enough money to cover a replacement, all the way
> > up to an optioned-out brand-new one, (say $30,000 to be safe), what
> > would you do:
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> > buy an older miata and keep the larger money difference?
> > get a brand-new new one and keep the smaller money difference?
> > get a different vehicle altogether?
> > if older, would it be stock or modified? What year?
> > do something not on my list?
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> > I am not in this situation, no money anyway. Just curious, and it's even
> > on-topic! :-)
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> > For those with multiple miatas, just pick one to be missing.
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> > Pat
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> It is difficult to say for certain what I will do in the next minute but,
> hypothetically, under the circumstances stated I would probably buy a new
> PRHT MX-5 (red...always red!). Certainly not the most practical choice
> since I really could use some amount of money too but I've not been without
> a Miata since 1991 and I have a general distrust of used cars except in the
> most desperate circumstances.
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> In my situation the most realistic thing to do would be to forget the car,
> use the money to finish up the remodeling and landscaping, and drive the
> Subie but nobody every accused me of being a realist...- Hide quoted text -
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Currently, the best Miata (imo) is the most current '2010' so I'd go &
buy a new GT PRHT MX5, however they cost $40,000 in Canada!