Funniest/stupidest things people have said about your miata.
 

As expected, I've gotten a good bit of shit about selling my subaru for my miata but I don't regret it one bit. It's fun to laugh and join in the fun I guess so I figure it'd be a fun thread to share some of the better jokes our friends have made about our fruity little cars.

"Does your car come in men's?" :giggle:

This is more of a BS section topic, but I'll play. No one makes comments about my car, because they know I'll break their neck... no really, I just get the typical "FAG!" yells, and sometimes get comments about it being some other type of car. Had a girl say I must be rich driving a Viper... :hsugh: I would have played along if she wasn't ugly. Other than that I don't recall any personal experiences. I've seen other people talk about comments about the Miata being FWD.

people ask me how i fit in there, they dont know its rwd etc etc. the list goes on.

You ever think that when they yell fag at you it has nothing to do with the car?

Is that seriously a ferarri?...dumb blondes believe anything your friends tell them.

Someone asked me if mine was a Porsche, most people think it's fwd, and one guy even after showing the engine wasn't transversely mounted he still didn't believe me so I did a burnout for him. Granted he's an idiot but still...

^^
+1

I've heard the "is that a Porsche?", "those are just fwd, so I don't know why people race them" type comments, along with the usual fag etc. I have had (more than once) a guy pull up beside me in a big truck / 'real man's car' and say "you look like you're having alot of fun with that thing, maybe I should look into one".

She knew it was a Mazda, and she knew you had a little penis, but a fat girl's gotta get play somehow. Jk.


I have NEVER gotten shit about my car besides the usual musclecar snob looking down their nose. I am going to miss smoking those guys (cock).

most idiots tell me "nice little car, wish it came in RWD"

to which I respond "it does" and get one of these faces :eek5:

I got the porche one twice... I got the match box car lol... Fwd a couple of times.... How do you fit in there... This girl thought my car cost like 25k lol.... One dude thought it was an rx7

"My Honda has 17's and it'll out handle a Miata" - Random dude. I don't know what the hell this kid was talking about.

I once told someone that the Miata was the most popular sports car in the world. He didn't believe me.

My boss told me that people over 6 ft. don't belong in a Miata. :jerkit:

I had a guy come up to me at Home Depot
"that's a really neat little exotic car. where is it from and how many were made?"

I just smiled.

Lots of "fag car" comments. The people that gave it to me the worst though were my co-workers. After taking a ride in the boosted goodness, one of them bought a miata and is now working on a turbo kit, and another is currently in the hunt for one. :D

I got a lotta shit... til i made more whp than all my friends

I have heard a lot about the rotarys in these cars being unreliable. Is that true? :jerkit:

Isn't this an M.net question?

Is it Tuesday?

one of my friends at school yesterday asked me why did i straight pipe my stupid little miata?

i told him my "straight pipes" doubled my horsepower and i would race his mustang gt any time :fawk:

There is a guy at work that goes on and on about how great a rotary swap in a Miata would be, even though he's never had either (he did on a Pantera though).

I've discussed it with him, and see his point, but know what an ordeal the swap is for not too much gain. He still sends me CL links to every TII motor, ecu and tranny he sees come up. At least he mechanically knows what he's talking about.

I once heard " You know, your car looked much better when it was on fire."

I had one guy in a 2000ish purple monte carlo tell me in rush hour traffic one day that Miatas are for child molesters.

^ lol!!!

It's true. There are OVER NINE THOUUUSAAAANNNNDDDD of us with Miatas, all molesting little children.

Ive had a few random ppl yell fag and shit like that

but naywa, this shit is may too m.net for me... sooooo goodbye

being right hand drive, i get all kinds of shit.

Where is your steering wheel?
Why do you want such a weird car?
Is your car from Europe (its japanese btw...)

once i was boosted I was asked "holy shit, really...a miata?" after taking a friend for a spin.

"My Goldwing's engine is larger than your Miata's"

My dumb neighbor keeps asking, "Do you ever win money racing that thing? Seems like a waste to me. You'll never get half your money back when you sell it. I don't know why you waste your time with a lawnmower engine when you could buy a Camaro for that amount of money." I then explain that my life doesn't revolve around sinking money in a 20-year old $1600 car as an investment.

Yeah you tell him. My miata is a 20 year old $3000 investment.

yes it does:fawk:

Is that a go kart or a race car?

Honestly I do see the allure. A 13B will rev to 9K and make decent TQ from 4k on up. It will make decent power NA too. The engines are relatively cheap and the right people can make them very reliable. Not having a valve-train to speak of/deal with is pretty sweet. And in a light car like a Miata, having a broad but progressive TQ band is a very good thing. You doint need massive tires, but you can run the lower gears a lot when racing for great TQ multiplication and acceleration. Basically the Honda philosophy of high-po vehicles untill recently.

But, you have the huge hassle. You do have the fact that it should probably be rebuilt before you bother putting it in. It will sound like a weedwacker wide open. Rotary transmissions seem to need to ride a bit higher do to the fact that the crank is basically in the center of the engine rather than the bottom (which is part of why an LSX goes into an FD or FC so well.) And for all the coolness of the powerband of a rotary, an LSX plowerplant is going to womp it overall. The aluminum 5.3 engines are starting to show up on ebay lately, and they are cheap and will make high 200s WHP at an absolute minimum considering the headers you will be running with any swap. Save up for later, throw in a built bottom end and cam with the (very good and slightly better than LS1) 5.3 heads and mid-high 300WHP is dead relaible on an engine that can go right to 7K and makes TQ at 3K.

Rambling. Sorry.

^ I get the "Hey you drove your Go-Kart" all the time

I would then point out the wonderous 10 bolt rear ends breaking at 300WHP(basically stock LS1), the fact that that chassis is roughly as stiff as your neighboors dick (over-cooked spaggetti), the absolute crap rear suspension (which combined with the chassis makes subrame connectors more or less nessesary for any sort of racing) and the fact that with the exception of late 70 and 80s F-Bodies, they are over-hyped and over priced. All the normal non-rich people are flocking to the Novas because the late 60s Camaros are all bought up and being sold to gold-chainers for 40K a pop. The LS1 cars are just so magical to fanboys because they make about 300WHP and theoretically can run high 12s stock so they get sold for way more than it costs to make a 300WHP car.

I looked hard at LS1 F-Bodies for a long time, and never could justify the cost for a car that more or less sucks at anything other than drag racing. For a drag slut I will just run some gutted Nova or Vega or Maverick or RX7 or Z or Mustang or any one of a dozen other options that are cheaper and lighter and are easy to setup properly.

Great engine, possibly the best available for most folks. Pretty good trans too. Crap everything else. Corvettes exist for a reason. F-Body guys hate hearing that, which is funny to me.

The most entertaining thing for me is the typical z06 or gt3 owner giving you the look when you are lining up in the pits for your first run group of the day, like O god I'm going to have to sit behind that guy. then the rest of the day after you have lapped them at least once per session they will completely avoid eye contact with you, and or grumble about how they are having some imaginary problem with there $100k car.

^funny you say that. Smaller scale but my first autocross in the miata I ran right with a Carrera. The owner was talking the car up big time before the race and was pissed off with it after haha.

"is that one of them kit cars or sumthin?"

"why do you have a huge radiator?"

I get the FWD thing alot, from mechanic's ( family and friends i do my own work ) its partly forgivable since there are only a handfull where i live.

"Oh, ur driving ur girlfriends car today?"
"Why would u turbo that? 13B swap it"
"Why would you want a rollbar? its not like u can flip it" - from my wifes father.. u would think the litlte extra safty for his daughter wouldnt be a bad thing.

Quoted from a buddies FB page that has a pic of me and him working on my miata:

I ALWAYS GET THE IS IT A MIATA OR AN MX-5? i then just stair at them. like wtf then they always go is it RWD? guys say i am gay and girls always say its cute. so i consider that a WIN on my part!

This morning while filling up:

"What does that tiny thing hold?"
"You mean the tank? Around 12 gallons."
"WOW! Doesn't look big enough to hold 5."

The guy was actually really nice. Just wanted to chat.

For some reason, I get random old guys asking where I got my Triumph. Several times a year for as long as I've owned the car, I get the Triumph question.

Since I've installed the intercooler I've had a few people say "What's up with that second radiator?"

Here in GA I get plenty of the gay jokes. My friends are actually pretty relentless about it. I also get the "so do you just put it on and zip it up?" and "nice go kart."

Once I had someone call it a Honda. That's the only one that got to me.

My brother and his VW friends always go on and on about their "fine german engineering" then I get to laugh my ass off when changing the thermostat is an all day job

I've had quite a few people yell "faaaaaaag" as they were driving by. I've never had anyone get out of the passenger seat with a negative comment though. Probably the best comment was, "I hate to say it, but your car has made me start to reconsider how gay miatas are."

from an asian girl in my apt parking lot, in a thick accent:
"is that your car"
-"yes"
"it's beautiful"
-"thanks"
"so small!"

from a group of drunk college guys:
"is that a lotus?"
-"yeah"
"that's sick bro"

I went and picked up a spare hood, red (my car's black), and rode back with it mis-matched... for some reason everyone I saw now thought my car was the shit, I got comments left and right just because my hood didnt match, and they were all positive, wtf? I never get comments normally

Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner! I can definitely see this. :bowrofl:

^Me Too.

I met some of the stupidest people at school. Like drown in the rain stupid. If you pulled up in an FD they would compliment your Ferrari and ask how fast the V12 is. Then tell you that their freind has a V4 Honda and that they were going to be senators.

I ride a V4 Honda daily...it's pretty bad ass actually.

One of my good friends once told me that my car would be good at stoplight racing-"since its so light it can get a jump on people and surprise them". He meant racing between stoplights..

Does it have 4 wheels and a fart can? Or 2 wheels and some actual acceleration? :giggle:

Same here. I really like running with the American Iron and CMC cars because apparently my car is mid-pack with those classes in the NASA TX region. I recently scored a check-ride for the TT license and the official riding along asked:
"does this thing have a turbo?"
-don't worry, its only running 11psi
"oh, ok..."
"holy shit that car is violent" after puckering a bit for a decreasing radius, off-camber, downhill 90mph 5th gear throttle steer corner on a V8 RX7pass, lol.

I spanked a douche from PCA once at H2R. He was in his brand new Boxter and had just sold his autotragic miata. I was in my spec miata with a junkyard motor. He walked up to spoolin2bars after the session and asked him what kind of turbo I had. When spoolin told him it was a junkyard motor pushin 100whp the guy just smirked and walked off, he didn't believe him.

Can we have a thread on what exotic cars have tracked out rather than give a point by? Why can't I be on there youtube hall of fame vid?

Hyper told me that my inline fuel pump will explode like a grenade in an accident
thats pretty stupid...

That thread is awesome, I heart clubroadster...lol

My two favorite:

Stand up comedian (Maybe Mike Birbiglia?)

"The Miata's a good little car; you rub it on the carpet, it'll go."

Overheard a guy at the Pittsburgh fireworks telling his buddies about me:

"Hey look!" Then parodies Chris Farley, singing "Big dude in a little car".

A cop once pulled me over, saw the harness and the seats, and asked exactly that, and, then, proceeded to read me the riot act. :cool:

A friend of mine teases me by calling my car "Fix It Again, Tony" (FIAT) :)

Sounds to me like they will be senators


Living in England I get none of this. Here it is about an average size sports car. I am in a very wealthy area, in fact probably the wealthiest in the country, and I get people asking me all the time how I can afford to run this car (I am a Mechanic). When I tell them its a Mazda and I have £2500 in it total (with the turbo and M/S conversion) they just about lose their shit. It is hilarious every time.

I chased a guy in an Aston Martin for a few miles a couple of months ago, all over him like stink on shit (tiny British country lanes so no room to pass), and we ended up at the same gas station. He starts asking me when they started making elans again.

Never ceases to amaze me how quickly non car people forget what model a car is. Back in the late 90's I had an MGB with fresh paint and everyone thought it was new.

My boss asked me today "Is that your little hot rod out there? It looks really nice, it's English right? It looks new did you just get it?"

She is ~45 and drives a rusty Caravan but at least she recognizes the British design influence.

To most people good paint = new car, I was asked on occasion whether my '93 323 was new. Sometimes I miss having a back seat in my fun car.

I'm late to this thread...

I'm lucky I guess, as I've never heard any comments about me or my car. -and I'm a target. I've been 290lbs for the last year (it's starting to come off a bit) and I'm 6'3"... you'd think I'd get all of those comments and yells. I've never heard one fag yell. Only my wife messed with me about it being a chick car, and that was only when I announced I wanted one.

I had a lot of people ask me about the car when I first got it in, the typical "how do you fit in it"? and such. I'd really love to see much more creative questions and comments...

• "That costume is so lifelike, you can barely see the seams"
• "I see Happy Meal toys are getting better"
• "Does it double as a floatation device?"
• "Ah, they were all out of your size huh?"
• "Hmmm... I never thought of a car as an accessory before!"
• "Do you have the matching purse?"
• "So it just folds up and fits under the bed huh?"
• "Do your parents know you are off of the sidwalk?"
• "Where do you wind it?"
• "Does it take AA or AAA?"
• "You must be hung like a rhino, because you clearly aren't compensating for anything."

or something funny anyway.

Unfortunately, mine is still bone stock so not a lot of impressing people to be done. But, in commuter traffic and off the beaten path I just keep it wound up and play around with it's natural handling abilities (even soggy and worn like it is). It's fun, even if it's slow.

At least people are constantly impressed with it's age and condition though. As other have said, TONS of people have no idea what it is, or that it's 19 years old.

I get no snide remarks, no one yells "faaaag" as they drive by, and no one jokes about the size of the car, either.

There are two types of cars in Istanbul.. Econoboxes and insanely expensive cars.
Miatas are virtually unknown to 90 per cent of the population, too.

So, if I have to go somewhere "privileged" I just pull up to the gate and nod. No one asks anything, gates raise, and off I go.

Oh, I hear quite a few "must be a Ferrari" whispers when I drive with the top down.
People actually act respectful around the car.

I drove my sister's Opel Corsa for a few months when I first moved back to Istanbul, till I searched high and low and finally bought my Miata (MX5 actually).
The difference is like night and day with the Miata. Doors open. Security people smile at you. Cops apologize when you stop at traffic checks.
I took it in for the state inspection, and all the inspectors came by the car! Passed in just five minutes :)

My claim to fame is bettering a twin turbo Audi by almost half a second on the track.

Everybody just says it is "cute". Got old after the first 100 times.

Now there's a good idea for a thread: "Stuff you're really sick of hearing about your car"