[serialk11r]

It's butt ugly, but could be a good track car or motor donor for something ultra light. The power to weight ratio on the NR series engines is good, they have high mechanical efficiency (less oil cooling requirement), and if they mate to an EC60 like transmission the transmissions should be an efficient and reasonably robust design.

Now that said, the Miata is still kind of...the better car. This is just cheaper, supposedly. If it's really just 15k, then a lightly used one would make a really really cheap track toy.

I'm still disappointed they didn't put the engine in the back and make it an MR2. Your move, Honda. Do an L15B7 midengine car.