I bought Engineering Explained's supercharged Miata.
, for a price that would make you want to punch me in the mouth. I paid eight grand for a two-owner car with zero rust, all of its maintenance up to date, no mods, and just one dent in the rocker panel. That car was my escape pod from quarantine in New York, the thing that got me into the woods and away from the oppressive weight of a city dark. I never even considered selling it.
I could imagine no better car for my life, but my car deserved a better life for itself. My clean, soft-top S2000 parked in Brooklyn overnight got stolen. I had the gall to act surprised. Insurance paid out far more than I’d spent on the car, but it didn’t matter. I couldn’t replace it. Having purchased one for $8000, I couldn’t justify spending $20,000 on the same car, or $15,000 on a far worse one.
Fenkse ended up needing the car for another year. I told him to text me the minute he decided to sell it. In the interim year, I tried on two separate occasions to buy a different, worse, supercharged, bright-yellow Miata. They fell through for reasons entirely outside of my control.This time, I wasn’t going to let that happen.
The result is sensational. The added grunt and re-tuned power delivery make you want to wring out this Miata’s engine, something that wasn’t true of a stock Miata until the ND2. The crescendo is not dramatic as the on/off switch absurdity of VTEC hitting, but with more talkative steering, a more linear powerband, a softer setup that communicates through body roll, and an equally perfect gearbox, my ND is one of the only cars in the world that I enjoy more than my S2000.
Of course, no car is perfect. And the Miata’s main issue as a car is that it mostly isn’t one, given its limited ability to transport humans or goods between locations. I’m known among friends as the architect of many last-minute road trips, the kind that fill the cargo areas of large SUVs and tie up every seatbelt. For that life, the Miata won’t do alone. But I don’t care. This car is going to be with me for a while. Now I just need to find a beater truck to go with it.
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