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Looking For: spicy mazdaspeed protege or a miata

I'm just going to post links to cars I find online.. if anyone else finds any post them up

I will try and post all that I find here but I'm also bookmarking them all on del.icio.us here: http://del.icio.us/clauretano/cars
Here are my requirements:

Miata:
- pretty much any colour is fair game, but I really hate the tan interior so yeah without that.
- must have an LSD. From what I remember, on the NB miata if it has a power retractable antenna it has an LSD.
- no leather seats.. but if there's the ultimate miata with crazy low miles at a great price I think I'll live with the leather seats.. I can always trade for someone who wants leather.
- Low mileage. I'm really liking the 20k mile Miatas I'm able to find, yay for lots of people using them as weekend-only cars.
- No rust. When I look on autotrader I'm searching within 500 miles of Miami.. but yeah just anywhere that it doesn't snow.
- Mazdaspeed MX-5 is a plus, but it's incredibly difficult to find without leather seats. I dunno if I'm a fan of the red cloth seats I've found.

Mazdaspeed Protege:
- must be orange
- must be mint, no rust, and stock.
- must be low mileage (relative to it being a 2003).

Other cars (if you're really that bored to find cars for me):
- I really like hatches/wagons
- I'm not a fan of front wheel drive. Basically, it needs to handle as well as a Mazdaspeed Protege or Mini Cooper S (hence those are the only two FWD cars I am looking at)
- I like getting over 30mpg highway because I do a lot of driving
- I really don't have a color preference, I'm very open.
- Absolutely must be a manual transmission.. pisses me off because I set that as a requirement on Autotrader but people have automatics listed as manuals on there.. argh
- No rust, and low mileage is a big plus.

um I found a nice non-mazda
http://www.autotrader.com/dealers/dd...ler_id=2980828

and it's silver
http://images.autotrader.com/images/..._A.562x421.jpg

pretty high mileage and german so I wouldn't trust high mileage.. I only found it because I was checking that shop because it's the only shop I'd trust in Rochester (not that I've taken my car there but a roommate has and it's a GREAT shop for euro cars).

another
http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.js...uperSpotlight=
http://images.autotrader.com/images/..._A.562x421.jpg
but it's an 03 and the 03 has all sorts of undesirable stuff goin on.

Have you considered an MP3 by any chance?

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Originally Posted by KrayzieFox (Post 397657)

Have you considered an MP3 by any chance?

Unless you found a yellow one, no. A yellow MP3 I would do but it would be impossible to find a low mileage one. Then I'd also have to put a LOT of money into it.

Dude!! Get the white P5, that's a great color on our cars. Panda-mobile FTW?!

and.. you said you liked the hatch look....
Best D34L Eva

That silver P5.. costs more than my P5 did when I bought mine in Feb 2004 (a 2002.5 model made in June 2002) with 8k miles on it.

<3 gremlin though :)

3rd gen Proteges are such handsome vehicles!

But their driveline inadequacies preclude me from considering them for future purchases.

Miatas have none of those issues.

Oh, and the LSD is a standalone option, not correlated to the retractable antenna.

I vote for a spicy :)

I checked autotrader and the only spicy MSP in my area has like 75k miles or something

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Originally Posted by JoshP5 (Post 397688)

Oh, and the LSD is a standalone option, not correlated to the retractable antenna.

from what I read on miata.net the trim level or package that the retractable antenna came in also gave LSD or something like that.. it's the only easy way to know.