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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
@ KAuss sounds like our commute is similar links (I do 80 mile per day, and have done 146,000 miles in the 86).
Frankly, if this is going to be your commuter car, you are putting too much emphasis on the torque dip. If you are doing commute driving you don't notice it, and if you are stepping into the throttle you're going to be above it anyway. Honestly if someone had shown me the charts, I wouldn't have known it existed.
If you need room, the MX-5 is not the solution (check out my "Junk in the Trunk" thread for how roomy the 86 is).
For overall value I don't think the cars are close in comparison, 86 wins hands down, particularly as a commuter car. But, admittedly, I'm not a fan of the Miata, and while the newest is a better looking car than the previous ones, I still think they look like bathtubs on wheels.
As far as the "rent space when you need it" mantra, I'm not a believer. If I'm throwing down nearly $30K or more for my DD it needs to fit 95% of my daily driving tasks. Renting a car is just to inconvenient to have to do it on a regular (or even semiregular) basis. |
You're not wrong in the commute not needing the torque part. I use cruise control, but I'm also driving a truck I've owned for 14 years. Which has 18 mpg, and if I even so much think about putting the pedal down, I'm just looking at my gas needle dip LOL. So I've tried to live on the sane side as of late because the truck has dipped from 20 mpg going 85 mph in two years. Now it's 18 going 75.
I've actually looked at the space, and am well aware of the space being able to hold 4 tires and a jack from even the concept information from way back. I also found this picture that had a legend of every measurement of trunk space as well. Unfortunately, I have a dual Q series Kicker L7 sub in my truck right now, and that thing is 15 7/8" tall, while the trunk is 15.5" tall. If that thing was 17" tall, I would probably give the BRZ a bunch of pionts, but because I can't reuse those subs, I'm going to have to sell it with the truck. Still, that trunk space is going to be occupied by some kind of sub setup. It's actually more important to me knowing how I feel about my truck after 14 years. When I'm not driving like an idiot, having the subs really make my drive a lot sweeter. This is where the MX-5 has to make up for it with it being convertible. Since I won't have subs in that thing at all.
The one reason why the MX-5 will win as a commuter car though is because of the gas mileage. Even if you get on it with that thing, you'll be hard fetched to drop below 30mpg. Like I can probably drive it in 4th the whole time and it'll still have amazing mileage. It does not trump everything the BRZ can do better though. BRZ will halve many many more points making it a better commuter.
You bring good points up, and they're not wrong. I'll have 1K miles in either car after a month, so after that, I can fully test out the torque dip thing if I end up in the BRZ.