**A Passionate Owner's Review of His Mazda MX-5**

As I sit down to write this review, I'm surrounded by the familiar comforts of my home garage, where my beloved Mazda MX-5 has been patiently waiting for its moment to shine. For eight years now, I've had the privilege of owning and driving this iconic roadster, and let me tell you, it's a relationship that's grown stronger with each passing day.

My MX-5 is a 1990 model, which I purchased secondhand, but one that I've lovingly restored to its former glory. The engine is a 420 CC ECU-wise, with an Emmy two-to-one attached that's a normal 5-speed manual transmission from an MX-5. It's a familiar setup that I know and love, and over the years, we've become quite comfortable together. The suspension, however, has always been a point of contention for me. As you can imagine, these things are cheap eBay coilovers, which can be bouncy and prone to vibrations.

I've had my fair share of rattles and creaks over the years, but I've learned to live with them. After all, when you're driving something as charming as this MX-5, you tend to overlook a few minor imperfections. The interior, while not particularly pristine in its original state, has been thoroughly detailed by yours truly. It's a bit of a labor of love, but I'm proud of the way it's turned out.

One thing that really gets my goat is the sound deadening it needs. This car is very loud, even when the engine is quiet. I've never been one to complain about noise too much, but there are times when you just wish there was a bit more insulation between you and the world outside. Still, as I mentioned earlier, these little quibbles are dwarfed by the many wonderful qualities of this car.

I remember why I fell in love with this MX-5 in the first place – its sheer joy factor. It's such a fun little car to drive, with a responsiveness that's hard to match. Even now, after all these years, it still puts a big smile on my face every time I get behind the wheel. Of course, there are those who might say that this particular model needs to be replaced by something more modern – perhaps a 97 Boxster S or an even pricier option like a Bugatti Chiron. But for me, that's just not necessary.

I've put in around $2,000 into restoring and maintaining my MX-5 over the years, which is a small price to pay for the pleasure it brings me. As I look back on our time together, I'm reminded of how lucky I am to have found this little gem. It's not perfect, but it's mine, and that's all that matters.

**Future Plans and Improvements**

As for what the future holds, I'm not entirely sure yet. Perhaps a sound deadening treatment will be on the cards – who knows? One thing is certain, however: as long as this car remains in my life, I'll continue to cherish every moment we spend together. Whether it's a leisurely drive through the countryside or a spirited lap around the track, this MX-5 has always been more than just a machine to me.

Of course, there are some potential upgrades on the horizon. A new exhaust system is high on my wish list, and I've even considered giving the interior a bit of a makeover. But for now, I'm content with the way things are – besides, as any car enthusiast will tell you, it's often the little imperfections that make a vehicle truly special.

**A Final Word**

As I bring this review to a close, I want to take a moment to thank all those who've been supportive of my passion for cars over the years. To you, dear viewers, I offer my sincerest gratitude for watching and engaging with me on this channel. Your enthusiasm is what keeps me going, and I'm honored to have such an amazing community behind me.

And so, as I shut down the engine and step back from the cockpit of my trusty MX-5, I feel a sense of satisfaction knowing that this little roadster has brought me joy for eight long years. Who knows what the future holds? But one thing's for sure – as long as it's got an MX-5 behind the wheel, you can bet your bottom dollar that we'll be having a blast doing it!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys and welcome to a petrol pet amok words Mike Arvid 19 daily vlog uploading a new video every evening at 6 p.m. to keep you sane during a lockdown well it's time for another peddlers rides and I thought I'd film inside my office I never film in here really because the Lighting's not normally that good but in this peddlers rides I wanted to bring you something that certainly for my European audience you will never have seen before so as usual before we get stuck into the meat of this video we have a couple of peddlers pups for you now first off thanks to Stella Smith we have Wilbur and Fitz now Wilbur and Fitz are white schnauzers now houses come in four colors white black pepper and salt and black and silver just thought you'd say yeah a UK little bit of schnauzer knowledge for you and then next up from Derrick Finnegan we have smudge and smudge is a cat so a peddlers pura obviously but I think he's got the Puss in Boots big doughy eyes look absolutely nailed well done smudge so I promised you something quite big I said I would bring you something that you had never seen before this is aimed at my European audience so we are gonna head over to Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania to a youtuber called EA for tea and a Lincoln MKT supporter khamenei influencer line a lot of you have been asking me about this car okay so not a lot of you have been asking but a few people have been along with that I've actually been challenged by a couple people to review some of my family vehicles especially now because we're all under lockdown and there's basically nothing else to do so hello everyone I am EA and right here we have a car that you will not see in Europe the Lincoln MKC here we are looking at a 2017 lincoln MKT this is not the same kind of lincoln MKT that livery and chauffeur companies use but this is one that is more suitable for the entire family this car arrived at the start of the previous decade as Lincoln realized they needed a luxury SUV that could see more than just five people while appealing to suburban families without being as large as an American suburban family home is like the Lincoln Navigator consequently this six to seven seater model is relatively short and relatively low and depending on whom you ask it's relatively unattractive the first Lincoln MKT s the front end of that it looked like a shark it was very polarizing it was like rarer in your face it was quite a little bit to look at when they updated it for 2013 they ended up making it a bit more subdued but it looked like a whale this one I don't even know what to describe it I guess the more politically correct way of describing it is an acquired taste that's probably the best way of putting it as far as the back end of this car goes I relatively liked this design it's nice and sleek with this nice long light bar the only thing I don't really like is this backup camera with the way it just jumps out like that I'm not really a big fan of it but otherwise I like the back end of this car even though it looks a little bit too much like a whale so I guess the whole car almost looks like a whale then when you also consider the side profile so we have established that the exterior of the Lincoln MKT is a bit of a mixed bag and can look like an aquatic animal that's not very great when it comes to sales and making a good first impression perhaps the interior has some redeeming qualities does it yes it does but let's get some of the bad out of the way first some places such as the seat controls and such I don't like the hard plastics around here and then other places have a bit of questionable fit and finish that you wouldn't see on some of the German competitors for example but all that bad stuff aside it's actually surprisingly good in here around the instrument cluster you have two displays to flank the speedometer everything is relatively easy to see you have about an eight inch touch screen here and it runs the sync three infotainment system it still controls some things that I prefer to have buttons such as the heated and active cooled seats yes this car does have that along with the heated steering wheel I wish there were buttons for it but it's controlled in the touchscreen I guess that's where things have been going anyway otherwise things are pretty easy to use easy to find there are a couple buttons to enable the lane keep assist which helps you just stay in your lane and then also there's active part this car can parallel park itself it really isn't bad up front but the real party is in the second row where this one is option with a refrigerator honestly the second row is where to be in this car I mean the legroom in here is great you have a nice extended console and stuff you can store stuff in here you have the refrigerator back here and it's just a nice place to be overall there's even a bit of lumbar support and like I said heated and active ventilated seats along with your own climate control back here now I'm not Tyler Hoover I don't have any kind of Grey Poupon or anything to drop out the window and it wouldn't look very good for me to do that either since everything is short in the grocery stores so I'm just gonna exit the way I answered now where I live is under a Stanhope order and that means it wouldn't be very responsible for me to go out and give you guys a driving impression right now however here are a few hints as to what you can expect out of this car the power comes from a 365 horsepower twin-turbo v6 engine the curb weight of this vehicle once you have someone like me it's gonna be a little bit over 5,000 pounds does that make it quite the porgy SUV that you'd expect no actually center of gravity on this is pretty low and the ride is actually quite good and one good clue of everything when you look at the visor you don't see a sticker of shame that a lot of similar SUVs get that say Ohio rollover risk avoid abrupt maneuvers at excessive speeds this one doesn't have that and that's really good for where I live around the Pittsburgh area where there are a lot of curvy roads and hills here I say it this part can actually be a bit fun to drive on some of these back roads makes you wonder why people are getting bigger SUVs that seat the same number of people but way even more than that and aren't really as fun to drive around the curves like why it's something that's a little bit more direct this one floats well anyway those other ones don't float much better just I get something that can't really handle it doesn't make sense to me with fun driving dynamics some good features a somewhat amazing interior and more perhaps this is a compelling car to buy but it isn't at least it's not compelling to buy it new when this car came out of the factory it was about 57 thousand US dollars with almost all the options added onto it except for the rear seat entertainment which you should skip that because it was pretty old but anyway that's about how much it cost however I won't disclose the pricing that we bought it at pre-owned because it's not really my business to disclose it but here are some hints the first buyer had this car for about a year and put about seven thousand miles on it and the car cost fifty seven thousand dollars when he bought it back in 2017 however when we ended up purchasing it let's just say that in that year and seven thousand miles perhaps the cars price was closer to thirty thousand dollars than it was to even forty five thousand dollars residual value it does not have comfort it does have fun dynamics it does have but in production it is not as the new Lincoln aviator has its place in the lineup but despite its flaws I will still say that when it was sold the Lincoln MKT was one of the most compelling SUVs in its class that is once you got over the acquired taste looks yep can't say I've seen one of those before been to the States quite a lot or no not for a few years now but it's not a pretty car is it I'm not being disrespectful or anything but it's not a pretty car really isn't it's big but it's not pretty car it's probably why we don't have it to be honest but on the upside I thought your video was brilliant very very well put together very well edited I will put a link to your channel up there so head over to the channel and hopefully and you might get a few subs out of that but yeah very good video and so yes from something that we don't really see in Europe to something that many of us in Europe love we call them MX fives and you guys across the pond call them me artists but yes I'm gonna head you over to an mx-5 now this chat is called Hemi power and I love this video because this car is properly loved good morning and welcome to a quick overview of my turbocharged so let's start with the basics this is a 1990 G reg mx-5 its UK spec which means actually the first registered date is the 31st of March 1990 which puts this in probably the first 2000 built 120,000 miles on the clock ish is a 1.6 it's got some rubbish 15-inch fairly slim wheels that I have no idea I got with rambha they had yoga homers on it when I bought them for 300 rounds so I thought you know what that would be worth me money exterior wise the only thing I've changed really is put a hardtop on it which needs to be resprayed it's had very very little done to the outside because I wanted to keep it fairly stock I like the stock a shape of the car let's go on to the engine next internally the engine is fully stocked to 1.6 litre short-nosed from a JDM car so which means standard they are 115 horsepower the only thing internally that's actually been changed is that has a stainless steel head gasket turbo is a completely bog standard refurbished Subaru Impreza I think a 16 T turbo so it's fairly small or 13 tier cotton but which one a fairly small turbo but these fit very well with the mx-5 because they are very quick spooling and it makes a decent enough power on wastegate boost this one particularly on wastegate boost is making a 190 horsepower it's running rx-8 yellow injectors which I think 420 CC ECU wise this is running an Emmy two-to-one attached that is a normal 5-speed manual transmission from an mx-5 we've had a few of them now because they do break quite quick then it's got a 4.3 LSD in the back from a mark 2 with Delrin dismounts brakes wise to help me stop I've got 1.8 discs and pads which all EBC green stuff pads and everything off for 1.8 which is plenty it never really runs out power so the interior completely stopped basically this is the normal master mx-5 mark one steering wheel no airbag because it's a 1990 apart from that I've got this song mp3 thing I have to say the interior is not normally this clean it's only due to the fact that we've been stuck inside for the last couple weeks that I've had times just give it a really good detail inside so let's go through five things I hate about this car because there are a few things number one the suspension is so hard being that they are cheap eBay coiler is they're really bouncy and the fact that they're about seven years old now probably and I bought them secondhand already number two is because everything is Delrin or poly bashed or solid you feel every bit of vibration through this car anyway on top of any single rattles if there's not something quite right with the car you will feel it number three this car needs sound deadening it's very loud anyway I don't really have any other things to be honest the good news is though that all those bad things I don't like about the car are completely dwarfed when you drive it and I remember how much I loved this car and why I bought it in the first place I've had this car now for eight years like I said and I loved it I cannot get enough of it even when it was standard I love driving it it's such a fun little car to drive and I think it could be replaced unless I had you know 20 grand or if I had a 97 Boxster S or something but those are 15 grand for a decent one this was like a grand when I bought it I've probably put two into it so there you go that's a quick overview and quick few things I don't like dislike and future things I'll be doing to my mx-5 I hope you enjoyed the video smash the like button if you did and make sure you check out my channel Oh it'll be linked hopefully in the description below and my Instagram is at hens cowl wither z h en z p RW u double LP and yeah if you want any more mazda mx5 content check out my channel thanks guys bye yeah now I don't need to put links to your various social media outlets because you did it in your video although I will put a link to your channel just up there but yeah a lovely video and I love your passion about that car I love the fact that it's kind of almost like a rat rod style but I just the fact that you love it and you love to drive it and and yes there are things about it annoy you but after all our cars when they when they get to that special place in our hearts where we love them it kind of sometimes doesn't matter that there are things that we don't like it doesn't matter what they look like it's all about how they make us feel and I really got that vibe from your mx-5 and I must say I do love an mx-5 but I do like the original ones and Mart ones with a pop-up headlights I mean in the comments below how many of you have had a car with pop-up headlights by have had three I think it's one of my design things I would love to come back but I know sadly it won't but my final tip for you my friend is as you are a youtuber you could always wrap it I mean I've managed to last four and a half years on YouTube without wrapping a car maybe I'll stick to not wrapping a car as well and by the way I just thought I've never really had this on the channel very much I am a huge lego fan I haven't done any Lego during lockdown but my that's about as close to a bugatti chiron as I'm gonna get I've got the 911 gt3rs behind the camera as well yeah I thought I'd put that there for a bit of backdrop but anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this one if you have done so please give me a thumbs up comments below are always welcome and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to petrol play for plenty more content to come and i'll see you in the next film guys but you take care stay safehey guys and welcome to a petrol pet amok words Mike Arvid 19 daily vlog uploading a new video every evening at 6 p.m. to keep you sane during a lockdown well it's time for another peddlers rides and I thought I'd film inside my office I never film in here really because the Lighting's not normally that good but in this peddlers rides I wanted to bring you something that certainly for my European audience you will never have seen before so as usual before we get stuck into the meat of this video we have a couple of peddlers pups for you now first off thanks to Stella Smith we have Wilbur and Fitz now Wilbur and Fitz are white schnauzers now houses come in four colors white black pepper and salt and black and silver just thought you'd say yeah a UK little bit of schnauzer knowledge for you and then next up from Derrick Finnegan we have smudge and smudge is a cat so a peddlers pura obviously but I think he's got the Puss in Boots big doughy eyes look absolutely nailed well done smudge so I promised you something quite big I said I would bring you something that you had never seen before this is aimed at my European audience so we are gonna head over to Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania to a youtuber called EA for tea and a Lincoln MKT supporter khamenei influencer line a lot of you have been asking me about this car okay so not a lot of you have been asking but a few people have been along with that I've actually been challenged by a couple people to review some of my family vehicles especially now because we're all under lockdown and there's basically nothing else to do so hello everyone I am EA and right here we have a car that you will not see in Europe the Lincoln MKC here we are looking at a 2017 lincoln MKT this is not the same kind of lincoln MKT that livery and chauffeur companies use but this is one that is more suitable for the entire family this car arrived at the start of the previous decade as Lincoln realized they needed a luxury SUV that could see more than just five people while appealing to suburban families without being as large as an American suburban family home is like the Lincoln Navigator consequently this six to seven seater model is relatively short and relatively low and depending on whom you ask it's relatively unattractive the first Lincoln MKT s the front end of that it looked like a shark it was very polarizing it was like rarer in your face it was quite a little bit to look at when they updated it for 2013 they ended up making it a bit more subdued but it looked like a whale this one I don't even know what to describe it I guess the more politically correct way of describing it is an acquired taste that's probably the best way of putting it as far as the back end of this car goes I relatively liked this design it's nice and sleek with this nice long light bar the only thing I don't really like is this backup camera with the way it just jumps out like that I'm not really a big fan of it but otherwise I like the back end of this car even though it looks a little bit too much like a whale so I guess the whole car almost looks like a whale then when you also consider the side profile so we have established that the exterior of the Lincoln MKT is a bit of a mixed bag and can look like an aquatic animal that's not very great when it comes to sales and making a good first impression perhaps the interior has some redeeming qualities does it yes it does but let's get some of the bad out of the way first some places such as the seat controls and such I don't like the hard plastics around here and then other places have a bit of questionable fit and finish that you wouldn't see on some of the German competitors for example but all that bad stuff aside it's actually surprisingly good in here around the instrument cluster you have two displays to flank the speedometer everything is relatively easy to see you have about an eight inch touch screen here and it runs the sync three infotainment system it still controls some things that I prefer to have buttons such as the heated and active cooled seats yes this car does have that along with the heated steering wheel I wish there were buttons for it but it's controlled in the touchscreen I guess that's where things have been going anyway otherwise things are pretty easy to use easy to find there are a couple buttons to enable the lane keep assist which helps you just stay in your lane and then also there's active part this car can parallel park itself it really isn't bad up front but the real party is in the second row where this one is option with a refrigerator honestly the second row is where to be in this car I mean the legroom in here is great you have a nice extended console and stuff you can store stuff in here you have the refrigerator back here and it's just a nice place to be overall there's even a bit of lumbar support and like I said heated and active ventilated seats along with your own climate control back here now I'm not Tyler Hoover I don't have any kind of Grey Poupon or anything to drop out the window and it wouldn't look very good for me to do that either since everything is short in the grocery stores so I'm just gonna exit the way I answered now where I live is under a Stanhope order and that means it wouldn't be very responsible for me to go out and give you guys a driving impression right now however here are a few hints as to what you can expect out of this car the power comes from a 365 horsepower twin-turbo v6 engine the curb weight of this vehicle once you have someone like me it's gonna be a little bit over 5,000 pounds does that make it quite the porgy SUV that you'd expect no actually center of gravity on this is pretty low and the ride is actually quite good and one good clue of everything when you look at the visor you don't see a sticker of shame that a lot of similar SUVs get that say Ohio rollover risk avoid abrupt maneuvers at excessive speeds this one doesn't have that and that's really good for where I live around the Pittsburgh area where there are a lot of curvy roads and hills here I say it this part can actually be a bit fun to drive on some of these back roads makes you wonder why people are getting bigger SUVs that seat the same number of people but way even more than that and aren't really as fun to drive around the curves like why it's something that's a little bit more direct this one floats well anyway those other ones don't float much better just I get something that can't really handle it doesn't make sense to me with fun driving dynamics some good features a somewhat amazing interior and more perhaps this is a compelling car to buy but it isn't at least it's not compelling to buy it new when this car came out of the factory it was about 57 thousand US dollars with almost all the options added onto it except for the rear seat entertainment which you should skip that because it was pretty old but anyway that's about how much it cost however I won't disclose the pricing that we bought it at pre-owned because it's not really my business to disclose it but here are some hints the first buyer had this car for about a year and put about seven thousand miles on it and the car cost fifty seven thousand dollars when he bought it back in 2017 however when we ended up purchasing it let's just say that in that year and seven thousand miles perhaps the cars price was closer to thirty thousand dollars than it was to even forty five thousand dollars residual value it does not have comfort it does have fun dynamics it does have but in production it is not as the new Lincoln aviator has its place in the lineup but despite its flaws I will still say that when it was sold the Lincoln MKT was one of the most compelling SUVs in its class that is once you got over the acquired taste looks yep can't say I've seen one of those before been to the States quite a lot or no not for a few years now but it's not a pretty car is it I'm not being disrespectful or anything but it's not a pretty car really isn't it's big but it's not pretty car it's probably why we don't have it to be honest but on the upside I thought your video was brilliant very very well put together very well edited I will put a link to your channel up there so head over to the channel and hopefully and you might get a few subs out of that but yeah very good video and so yes from something that we don't really see in Europe to something that many of us in Europe love we call them MX fives and you guys across the pond call them me artists but yes I'm gonna head you over to an mx-5 now this chat is called Hemi power and I love this video because this car is properly loved good morning and welcome to a quick overview of my turbocharged so let's start with the basics this is a 1990 G reg mx-5 its UK spec which means actually the first registered date is the 31st of March 1990 which puts this in probably the first 2000 built 120,000 miles on the clock ish is a 1.6 it's got some rubbish 15-inch fairly slim wheels that I have no idea I got with rambha they had yoga homers on it when I bought them for 300 rounds so I thought you know what that would be worth me money exterior wise the only thing I've changed really is put a hardtop on it which needs to be resprayed it's had very very little done to the outside because I wanted to keep it fairly stock I like the stock a shape of the car let's go on to the engine next internally the engine is fully stocked to 1.6 litre short-nosed from a JDM car so which means standard they are 115 horsepower the only thing internally that's actually been changed is that has a stainless steel head gasket turbo is a completely bog standard refurbished Subaru Impreza I think a 16 T turbo so it's fairly small or 13 tier cotton but which one a fairly small turbo but these fit very well with the mx-5 because they are very quick spooling and it makes a decent enough power on wastegate boost this one particularly on wastegate boost is making a 190 horsepower it's running rx-8 yellow injectors which I think 420 CC ECU wise this is running an Emmy two-to-one attached that is a normal 5-speed manual transmission from an mx-5 we've had a few of them now because they do break quite quick then it's got a 4.3 LSD in the back from a mark 2 with Delrin dismounts brakes wise to help me stop I've got 1.8 discs and pads which all EBC green stuff pads and everything off for 1.8 which is plenty it never really runs out power so the interior completely stopped basically this is the normal master mx-5 mark one steering wheel no airbag because it's a 1990 apart from that I've got this song mp3 thing I have to say the interior is not normally this clean it's only due to the fact that we've been stuck inside for the last couple weeks that I've had times just give it a really good detail inside so let's go through five things I hate about this car because there are a few things number one the suspension is so hard being that they are cheap eBay coiler is they're really bouncy and the fact that they're about seven years old now probably and I bought them secondhand already number two is because everything is Delrin or poly bashed or solid you feel every bit of vibration through this car anyway on top of any single rattles if there's not something quite right with the car you will feel it number three this car needs sound deadening it's very loud anyway I don't really have any other things to be honest the good news is though that all those bad things I don't like about the car are completely dwarfed when you drive it and I remember how much I loved this car and why I bought it in the first place I've had this car now for eight years like I said and I loved it I cannot get enough of it even when it was standard I love driving it it's such a fun little car to drive and I think it could be replaced unless I had you know 20 grand or if I had a 97 Boxster S or something but those are 15 grand for a decent one this was like a grand when I bought it I've probably put two into it so there you go that's a quick overview and quick few things I don't like dislike and future things I'll be doing to my mx-5 I hope you enjoyed the video smash the like button if you did and make sure you check out my channel Oh it'll be linked hopefully in the description below and my Instagram is at hens cowl wither z h en z p RW u double LP and yeah if you want any more mazda mx5 content check out my channel thanks guys bye yeah now I don't need to put links to your various social media outlets because you did it in your video although I will put a link to your channel just up there but yeah a lovely video and I love your passion about that car I love the fact that it's kind of almost like a rat rod style but I just the fact that you love it and you love to drive it and and yes there are things about it annoy you but after all our cars when they when they get to that special place in our hearts where we love them it kind of sometimes doesn't matter that there are things that we don't like it doesn't matter what they look like it's all about how they make us feel and I really got that vibe from your mx-5 and I must say I do love an mx-5 but I do like the original ones and Mart ones with a pop-up headlights I mean in the comments below how many of you have had a car with pop-up headlights by have had three I think it's one of my design things I would love to come back but I know sadly it won't but my final tip for you my friend is as you are a youtuber you could always wrap it I mean I've managed to last four and a half years on YouTube without wrapping a car maybe I'll stick to not wrapping a car as well and by the way I just thought I've never really had this on the channel very much I am a huge lego fan I haven't done any Lego during lockdown but my that's about as close to a bugatti chiron as I'm gonna get I've got the 911 gt3rs behind the camera as well yeah I thought I'd put that there for a bit of backdrop but anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this one if you have done so please give me a thumbs up comments below are always welcome and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to petrol play for plenty more content to come and i'll see you in the next film guys but you take care stay safe\n"