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Originally Posted by MVJ1975
The little red Mazda, beat to crap, basically pink, was my first car. This is the goodbye picture - it sits next to the silver tC that replaced it. It is 17 years old in this picture. The FR-S I just ordered will replace the tC... a car I like but do not love the way I did the MX-3.
As I said, the MX-3 was my first car. Like the FR-S, it wasn't really fast. The 4cyl engine barely eked out 88hp. It had huge blind spots. It looked like a space shuttle. But it was low, sleek, and handled very well. When I drove it, I felt like it was a part of me, an extension of me - not like I was sitting in a room.
It took me a long time to give it up. It was repaired several times. After a collision with a deer, USAA wanted to total it, but I begged them to spare it - and they did, grudgingly. I drove it another five years after that. In the end, it came to the point that I was spending more than it was worth every year to keep it running. At well over 100k miles, it was time to let it go.
I wanted to replace it with the same sort of car. You can imagine my dismay when I realized that no such car existed. I looked at everything. Minis, Mazda 3, Civics, the Genesis coupe, etc. I quickly realized that no four-door car would satisfy. That narrowed the field considerably. Ultimately I was able to get over the fact that the tC didn't come in red (boo!) and chose it based on price and features. I'd still recommend it, of course. It's a nice car.
But it didn't ever call to me like the MX-3 did... and the way the FR-S does now. It is exactly what I want.
So yes, I've been in love with this car from the moment I laid eyes on it.
-Mark
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Yeah, my Eclipse is getting extremely expensive to repair. It was this past January when my transmission went out that I first started toying with the idea to get a new car. But of course, the FR-S wasn't out yet and nothing else would have satisfied me so I just repaired my Eclipse.
And just last night, I started feeling a knocking/clicking coming from the front of the car. It's definitely something in the drivetrain which probably isn't going to be good.
But it's just frustrating because the car drives perfectly once I fix what needs to be fixed but then every 6 months, something starts to break down again and I have put another 1-3k in it. So what I really want to do is retire it to backup and snow duty. Plus, I can take it apart and play around with it more in my spare time - making it a project car of sorts.
So anyway, the FR-S is the only acceptable replacement daily driver I've found for my car. I was planning to hold off another year or so before I bought one but I may have to try and get it sooner rather than later if my Eclipse needs another several thousand in repairs.