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'Twas the month before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, just me and the computer mouse; The internet was browsed with diligence and care, In hopes that something exciting for Christmas would be there; When all of a sudden, an idea went ping!
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A list I should write, so Santa knows what to bring; A wide selection of cars, I know I will need, For a huge motoring appetite they will need to feed.
MAZDA MX-5 First on the list has to be one of the most enjoyable little cars available, the evergreen Mazda MX-5. It is almost impossible to find anyone
drove to the pub. A night sipping orange
The best part of £170k gets you a lot of
juice was a small price to pay for the fun
car, and even more gadgets, but the
had on the blast there and back. It was also
smoothness of that 6.3-litre V8 engine and
the last time I did the drive from
sumptuous interior mean that the blast
Manchester to Sheffield via Settle, Skipton,
down the auto route to your south of
who doesn’t like the little MX-5. Over the
Whitby, Malton, Hull and Gainsborough,
France villa (see last year’s Christmas list)
last 23 years and three generations, it has
such is the amount of pleasure these little
will be no more tiring than sitting beside the
proved to be the spiritual successor of what
cars deliver.
cars like the MG Midget and Triumph Spitfire would have been like today. I can distinctly remember the last time I tested a new MX-5, as it was the last time I 58
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pool in the sun. Fiddle with the buttons on the dash though and this car becomes the
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snarling, Ferrari beating beast that is
Getting a little more ambitious is our
making its tin-topped brother so successful
next contender…
as a safety car in Formula 1.