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Car Forum / UK Car Forums / General Car Topics (UK group) / December 2008

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MX-5 : Should I be tempted?

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GB - 29 Dec 2008 14:05 GMT
Mazda London have sent me a flyer offering a new 1.8 MX-5 soft-top with air
con (who needs air con on a convertible?) and leather seats for £12.5k.
Offer ends 31 Dec apparently. Is this a good buy? Should I be getting
another £1 or 2k off the price?
Mike P - 29 Dec 2008 14:12 GMT
> Mazda London have sent me a flyer offering a new 1.8 MX-5 soft-top with
> air con (who needs air con on a convertible?)

Anyone who drives in a city in the summer. Roof up, aircon on. Saves you
being on head-level with bus exhausts

> and leather seats for £12.5k. Offer ends 31 Dec apparently. Is this a good
> buy? Should I be getting another £1 or 2k off the price?

No idea, mine's a MK1 :-) Seems like an ok price though

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GB - 29 Dec 2008 16:40 GMT
>> Mazda London have sent me a flyer offering a new 1.8 MX-5 soft-top
>> with air con (who needs air con on a convertible?)
>
> Anyone who drives in a city in the summer. Roof up, aircon on. Saves
> you being on head-level with bus exhausts

You just recirculate the air inside the car then?
Pete M - 29 Dec 2008 21:45 GMT
>>> Mazda London have sent me a flyer offering a new 1.8 MX-5 soft-top
>>> with air con (who needs air con on a convertible?)
>> Anyone who drives in a city in the summer. Roof up, aircon on. Saves
>> you being on head-level with bus exhausts
>
> You just recirculate the air inside the car then?

You don't understand aircon then?

Even roof down in summer it is much, much nicer to have AC in an MX5
than not have it. Trust me on this.

Or are you one of those people who thinks AC costs £5 a mile to run and
knackers the AC on anything you own by never using it.

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Steve Firth - 30 Dec 2008 00:37 GMT
> > You just recirculate the air inside the car then?
> >
> You don't understand aircon then?

Errm I think you're the one that fails to understand it in this context.
Air-con pulling in outside air will quickly build up hiogh levels of
diseasel fumes inside the car. Put it on reccirculate and it will reduce
the level of fumes in the car, for a time. Or if it really does 100%
recirculation until you run out of oxygen.
Halmyre - 29 Dec 2008 15:14 GMT
> Mazda London have sent me a flyer offering a new 1.8 MX-5 soft-top with air
> con (who needs air con on a convertible?)

Try driving round Pisa in the middle of summer in a leather-seated MX5 with
no air-con!

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