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Yes she has and she is hooked. As a matter of fact, she asked me if we have a Novice School coming up!!! I think we may have another Miata showing up to our events next year!!!

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Todd Breakey
STS 42 - 1992 Sunburst Miata
Dammit!
"You souldn't play leap frog with a porcupine. You might get hurt." - Eliza

Maybe I'm giving a serious answer to a sarcastic question (and if I am, I'm prepared for Jim's mockery), but could they really class it as anything BUT H-stock? I suppose they could create an I-stock class. . .

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2012 MX-5 Sport SUV

I think the Smart car is going to be on the Stock Exclusion list for due to high center of gravity vs. wheelbase... similar to what has happened to the Scion XB. - AB

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'14 Toyota Sequoia Platinum 4WD
Super Westerfield Bros - '93 Integra - LeChump Du Jour
STX 93 - Scion FR-S

Hey man, my mocking days are over. Seriously, after being mocked by a minivan full of 14-year old girls, I can't possibly wish that fate on another human being. I've been so cruel and I never realized it...

Todd, that's good to hear. I hope she continues to enjoy it but tell her to stay away from minivans!

Jim

I've heard of regions letting them run in GS, but currently they aren't really legal for stock at all since they are grey market cars. The 2008 will change that, though, and I'm sure people will be asking. I'm not sure you have to worry about them tipping, but there's some index on that based on Cg height and footprint that will yield all very soon. It may even be on it already, I just don't remember the exact name to go searching for it.

At any rate, the thing wouldn't be fun to autocross. The steering rack is slow and you'd HAVE to do something about the shocks. It's pretty flat and not horrible to drive up to a point, but past that point things get weird fast. It's got strange bump steer, a very slow manual rack, and the bigger rear tires and wider rear stance make for crazy amounts of push. OTOH, just leaning your body forward actually does seem to help forward bite.


--Donnie

Is that a DOT standard type of thing or just specific to the Smart Car?

It would be interesting to see the data on a variety of stock cars & suv's, that's for sure.

Jim

It's some sort of standard listing for most all cars...dang if I can remember what it is, though. *sigh*


--Donnie

Jeb, why not just get Eric's C Stock car? Then you'd be done. Get in and drive...

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Karl S.
2014 Baby, 2014 House, 2013 Ford Focus ST, 2013 BMW 328i, 1994 Mercedes E320
(Insert passive aggressive signature line here)

Looking at it from an economics point-of-view, Do the 1.6 Especially if it has an LSD.
I paid $4,100 for my '93 5-6 yrs ago, with a hardtop, but no LSD. Mileage was about 78,000
I think I've got my money's-worth. Total time on-track at 6-7,000 RPM: about 70 hrs. Total mileage to date: 82,000---driven to a few autocrosses and to Roebling once. (That was enough .) Trailered everywhere since.
The important part: Looks like I could take all the goodies off, reinstall all the stock stuff, throw some wax on it, and still get around $4,000 for it--without the hardtop!
Total depreciation: Virtually nil.

As an autocross sled, the 1.6 can be competitive in the right hands. On-track, it gives up a little on the straights to the 1.8's, but is still quick and predictable.

Probably doesn't really matter which one you get, because they've both reached a near-horizontal line on resale value. Maybe go with the lower mileage.

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Brad

I figured I would post an MPG addition to this thread. I filled up earlier in the week and drove about half a tank around here with top up and down and to Charlotte in the rain, top up and the A/C. I calculated my mileage and it was 29.7. Not too bad!

I think that's pretty darn good.

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Marty Howard
2011 NASA SE Factory Five Challenge Champion
Track Events Logistics Coordinator - TZC/THSCC
2007 Factory Five Challenge Car.
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