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Re: Soul less Ro-Spit

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Subject: Re: Soul less Ro-Spit
From: "Mike Ross" <MIKEROSS@Prodigy.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 16:38:48 -0500
My son has a turbocharge Miata and it is a blast to drive.  I have
three driveable triumphs which I love, but that Miata is a fine
sportscar.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: J Constantino <jjcon2@yahoo.com>
To: npenney@erols.com <npenney@erols.com>
Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 4:12 PM
Subject: Soul less Ro-Spit


>
>That's too bad the Ro-Spit had it's soul removed.
>
>I've never owned a Japanese car and there aren't any I
>really crave (maybe a 510).  Reliable, technological
>wonders, they have soft controls and a bland, generic
>character I've never liked (I haven't driven a Miata
>yet).
>
>Gimme an English go-kart anyday.
>
>Jason
>
>Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 21:03:44 -0500
>From: Nolan Penney <npenney@erols.com>
>Subject: Re: Ro-Spit
>
>I didn't drive it, I rode in it at Carslisle a year
>and a half ago.
>
><snipped>
>I expected to find myself having wet dreams for weeks
>after that ride,
>but I came away from it more appreciative of my own
>rat of a Spitfire
>instead.  The roto-Spit is an expensive, refined,
>japanese car hybrid.
>The quirky british nature, the thing that makes us own
>and drive
>Spitfires, is gone.  The roto-Spit has lost its
>british sports car
>soul.
>
>
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