[Miata] Miata performance over the years

[Jon Etkins]

Speaking of radar, the best car I ever owned from the ticket-avoidance point-of-view was my 1st-gen RX-7.  It had such a small frontal area, with its radiator mounted at a very shallow angle, that it presented a really tiny radar signature.  I never once got a ticket in that car, and in fact several times I actually saw cops looking in puzzlement at their equipment as I sailed past!

Berck E. Nash wrote:
> I'm not sure, but it's only happened to me twice.  Recently, while going 
> over Wolf Creek Pass here in Colorado I passed a cop coming downhill. 
> For insane, stupid, and unexplained reasons the speed limit is 55mph 
> going downhill, but 35mph going uphill.  Seriously, if you're going to 
> make it slower one way, I'd say the downhill leg is the dangerous one-- 
> it's awfully hard to get in trouble going uphill.  I was doing about 65 
> when I saw the cop come around the corner, and started slowing down, 
> though not terribly aggressively.  THEN the radar detector went off, he 
> switched on his lights, and I actually came to a complete stop on the 
> side of the road before he passed me.  He said something to the effect 
> of, "You were a little quicker on your brakes than I was with my radar, 
> so I only got you going about 45mph, but I know you were going quite a 
> bit faster than that...  Say, how does this little car handle in these 
> mountains?"


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