The Best-Handling Miata You'll Never Buy

[Mark Hirt]

Edmunds inside line reviews my MX-5 MS-R

You're looking at the rarest Miata ever sold, the 2007 Mazda MX-5 with the MS-R option. The number of MX-5s delivered with the MS-R option is small enough to count on one hand — even by someone on medical leave from a sawmill...... continued---> (http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/Followup/articleId=124963?tid=edmunds.il.home.photopanel..1 .*)

note: with all my discounts mine did not cost that much

[MotoBob]

Interesting article! I never would have thought the Pontiac Solstice was better than the Mazda Miata. :redface:

[Mark Hirt]

Standard model to Standard model it really isn't, the factory Z0K package really wakes it up at the expense of ride quality.


Another unexpected result we're not griping about is the general tolerability of the day-to-day street ride. We'd have expected a track-focused package such as this to ride like a mattress with a coin slot, but the MS-R is actually quite a bit more livable than a lot of brand-name aftermarket setups out there.

You just have to be careful when you turn the wheel :whistle:


As a "driver" the MX-5 beats the Solstice hands down. The Solstice has no usable trunk a crappy ergonomics and truck like gear box. Most of the Solstice owners I know (all ZOK's) drive their cars into trailers for the ride home.

[JET Karting - Andy Finke]

Cool article. Didn't know THAT was what you had been waiting for.

I'm on my second Miata, but neither one would be that nice...


Andy

[Mark Hirt]

OnCars.com Video review (http://www.oncars.com/index.php?videoid=52)of the 1-G (aka MS-R) MX-5