And yet
...you still bought one!
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here is no such thing as a Eunos Mx5.
1)The Eunos is pure JDM.
2)No Eunos was exported from Hiroshima to the UK unregistered.
3)It's either a Eunos Roadster initially registered & USED in Japan, or a badged Mazda Mx5 or a North American Mazda Miata.
If you bought something that said "Eunos-Mx5", someone sold you a pup. Back street rice car perhaps.
They are also very easy to cut n shut unfortunately thanks to floor pan & inner sill sections etc easy to obtain.
The other issue always has been the DVLA being tossers and calling them all sorts.
Mine...is registered as an Mx5 and has been for the 16 years I've owned it.
There was a thriving market in 2nd division shite being imported to the UK with dodgy Roadsters that had failed the dread "SHAKEN", or JDM Super MOT. Equally there were plenty low miles minters.
I imported mine from a trusted Japanese specialist who only bought cars which he knew had never seen salted roads. Yes Japan does salt it's roads. Another myth.
These cars dissolve quickly from the inside out. You might want to read up on "SHAKEN". That could be why yours was gotten rid of of like many hundreds others to the UK.
I know perfectly well what Cosworth is and does...I merely meant it was a specialist entity tied to Ford..and others. Certainly do not need a history lesson from people like you about motorsport. I took part at amateur day Club levels for nigh on 40 years till 5 years back,
As for the Capri comparison? I had two x 2.8is.
One was a Vulcan steel built/ Burton gas flowed 3.1 conversion. Check out their PTWRs of the 160bhp (1210 KG & 0-60 in a claimed 8.6 seconds) per ton to the 146BHP VVT milled per ton ratios of the 2002 Mx5 Sport ( 7.9 seconds)
The Mx5 UK Sport you will find is much lighter (1065kg). If the usual stupid drop-clutch abuse is applied to both, the 0-60 times are pretty bob on with each other, with the 5 being nearly a second quicker. I never claimed either is/were "fast". The 2.8i was a cheap thriller of it's day 30 years back.
Number of times over the years I've corrected Yo Dudes in the OC complaining their 5 is not fast enough....I usually tell them they bought the wrong car, and go get a hedge finder 3 pot Fiesta ST or shagged WRX and see how the insurance looks,
As for a 250bhp Lotus..yes brilliant wee things.
Funny but true. Over a good few years if I've been stopping say EG at The Green Welly in Tyndrum for a pee and coffee, it's usually been a
Lots
of
Trouble
Usually
Serious waiting with it's bonnet up for the AA. Or French. Or Italian.Well cheers but I'd rather do a journey in something that has not shed bits on the way home TVR style.
I'd also like to see photos of this JDM Turbo'd toy laden whizzbanger you had
Was it a Mk2 or Mk1? I'll pop the photo off to our resident JDM Club guru who holds every chassis & production stat in various databases of every worldwide version that left Hiroshima.
It could have been some genuine Ltd....or a bag of fake shite. I've been in the marque and very involved with them for over 17 years. Not saying yours was an oddball, but MazdaSpeed JDM built turbos were usually 180bhp...soft pressure Garret Ai-Research I think turbos. There were a couple of uber rare JDM Mk2s "Cafe Racers" rated at 220 plus BHP but I believe only 1 hit our shores. It was black..I think it got 18k at auction.
Your experience was, typically, a passing phase 2 decades back.
You seem to be getting a bit wound up about a production world beater of a wee car that means nowt to you 2o years later in your life.
Now, tell us all what your chosen weekend special fun steed is. I'm interested. Sort of.
