Whenever I drive my MX5 I often end up on the way back, taking it for a detour driving it off for a blast out on the country lanes, becuase I love driving it!
Yes.
Who cares.
Furthermore, most of us do it.
If we don’t what’s the point?
I agree.
Simple answer is all cars are bad for the environment including electric ones.
Everything is bad for the environment.
I don’t care it’s a joke
Lol this topic is one where I would normally go into a long winded rant/debate about why I hate electric cars.
But I won’t! Agree, everything is bad for the environment including electric cars and farting!
I love cars (real cars, not 1950’s milk floats mascarading as a step forward!) and I love driving! MX-5 is a car that needs to be driven! So yes, I tend to take the longer scenic route home.
Am I creating more pollution? Probably. Do I care? Nope, couldn’t give a monkey’s chuff! Lol
Um, memes, particular of the sort that have been around for a decade, are banned on the forum. Unwritten rule, go have a look.
We always take the long way home in the MX5’s.
Supertramp
While ever we have the likes of large industry churning out millions of tons of toxic fumes, then I’ll continue to drive my petrol and diesel cars and enjoy them.
Unfortunately, motorists and general man in the street are an easy target to pont the finger at regarding the environment and global warming.
That doesn’t mean to say that we can’t all do our bit, but the biggest problems start higher up the chain than me.
I’ve reduced my carbon foot print, I drive everywhere.
How ironic.
Pretty sure the OP saw the joke.
It’s a pity Saz insofar your knowledge based posts are and were of value but lately you seem to be more bent towards condescending nit-picking.
It’s not unnoticed by others.
Pity really.
I agree.
A few thousand MX-5 drivers, doing perhaps 6k a year for their enjoyment (and mental well-being it has to be said), are not going to do diddly-squat damage to the environment when compared to what the world’s industrial nations do with their coal and oil-fired power stations and heavy industry installations.
Besides, petrol-engined cars are much less damaging to our air than they used to be before emission laws came into effect in the 1970s.
Thirty years ago, we were all told that petrol cars were bad, and that we should all get diesel ones instead. Low and behold, now the government has changed its mind, and today put the blame for dirty city air on diesels. I could have told them that back in the day - I’m sure we’ve all experienced getting stuck in a traffic jam behind a dirty, smelly, black smoke-emitting diesel bus or lorry, and getting choked for our trouble !
Drive your MX-5, and enjoy it for as long as you can, with a smug happy grin on your face, knowing that its not damaging the environment as much as your neighbour’s diesel-powered 4 X 4 !
Anyway, I’m sure Mazda are doing experiments with Hi-brid propulsion, and pretty soon we’ll all be driving MX-5s with a boot load of batteries !
Under 10s. Wow.
A different road going conversion
https://www.torquetrends.com/e-miata-project
Uses Tesla parts, and they spent the time properly installing for weight distribution.
Seems like it will attract an entirely different generation of tinkerer, listening to the engineer rattling off the specs of the various parts,
Short answer NO, follow any bus lorry or diesel burner with your top down and smell the pollution coming out, disgusting
Follow 30 MX5’s with the top down and all you can smell is cow poo from the fields
As for electric cars do not get me started on that one.
Would I be right in thinking that the marine diesel engines on the chuffing great ships that bring the “5’s” here from Japan (via European transhipment) push out more environmental damaging fumes on one voyage than all the cars do together in their lifetimes, I wonder. I believe that currently marine diesel engines are the biggest source of unregulated polluting emissions in the world.
Would miss the driving characteristics of the petrol engined MX-5, but would love to try a converted one to see what it’s like on the road, especially that last video. Bet it costs a fortune to convert though, and like you say, a different kind of tinkerer would be needed (pref with a degree in electrics and electronics!)
Would mean we could still drive our beloved mx5’s in the future though!