They guy in the striped shirt that ran up on him looks right out of Grand Theft Auto 4 with those WTF gestures!

COTD. Well done, Owen.

Indeed it is. Happy looking, happy revving, a joy in the curves. I drive it sometimes just to shake off a bad mood.

Thank you Jason. Sorry this first review was a bust. Watching this space closely.

Thank you thank you thank you for doing this Jason! I want one of these in each of our cars and have no idea which one is best suited for the job.

I see Florida in the headline and assume it's yet another story about a cop flouting the law, speeding or otherwise trying to screw a citizen for some malfeasance committed by the cop. Instead I see a man standing in a crosswalk. Not walking. STANDING. The cop should have radioed for assistance instead of driving…

These new parking meters from Photo Violations Technologies basically make parking enforcement officers obsolete. They have cameras in them that can sense if a car is in a spot. If the meter expires and you haven't refilled it yet, it will actually take a picture of your license plate and then give you the option to…

I live in Chicago. A while back, the city outsourced parking management to a LAZ Parking on a ridiculous 75 year contract for over a billion dollars. The money covered a budget shortfall, but apparently nobody read the damn contract. If the city closes a street for construction or maintenance, LAZ gets paid for the…

If you're seriously interested in the NA, find one from late 1991 or later. Early Miatas were shipped with a short nose crank. That's not an issue per se, but they've been known to develop vibration problems if they were overtorqued during routine maintenance - an easy mistake for a mechanic to make since the later…

That's the stock steering wheel. The first generation airbags were huge on the Miata. I'm guessing you're from Canada. The airbag was mandatory on the Miata in the US since its introduction. A few years later, the dashboard was redesigned for a passenger airbag as well. When the second generation Miata was…

Clean and rust free examples of the first generation Miata are going for around that asking price, but they normally include Mazda's B6 motor. Early examples of the Miata had a flaw in their engine design called the "short nose crank" which could be easily over torqued when serviced. Some developed into vibration…

I bought a new Acura TL back in 2005. I had an option to go for three, four or five years. The interest rate was the same regardless of the length of the loan. I was working in sales and some months were better than others, so I chose five years to lower the monthly payment. I always overpaid against the principal…

Purists got upset when Mazda offered the Miata with an automatic transmission. Then they got over it and went on living their lives.

I lol'd at the guy at 5:25 trying to get into the back seat. He looked like a St. Bernard trying to come in through the cat door!

I wouldn't call the bikers idiots. It would have been better if they weren't blocking both lanes, but when you have that many riders in a given area, they may cover both lanes - just like a cars and trucks might on any other day. There is no excuse for passing people on a soft shoulder when those people are moving…

This is my Miata. There are many like it, but this one is MINE! Bought it new 21 years ago and I'm never, ever going to sell it. I thought sports cars needed to be powerful and I wasn't that into the cutesy looks when it was introduced. Then I read an article in the November 1989 issue of Road & Track and was…

The Mazda Miata. The first generation Miata had an exhaust note tuned to sound like the older generation of sports cars from the 60's. It was not loud or muted. Even at idle it had a very nice burble.

I own a Mazda Miata if you haven't guessed. I'm amazed at the kits that are available for the first and second generation MX-5 cars and the fact that people are willing to spend money to buy the kit, let alone pay someone to do the job right.

"Seppings is an Australian-born Mormon who has broken away from the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and started his own extremist religious movement."

An idea so far ahead of it's time that it took technology 50 years to catch up to it.