Daily is a Tesla Y. Much easier to live with than I thought it would be, but nowhere near as much fun as the MX5
That creased me up! I’ve never driven one but would expect to have the same experience at least once until the old brain got up to speed😀
Sold the NC Recaro and bought this below.
Not a very good swap I know, especially when you’re on some very nice roads in the North York Moors.
It goes like s*** off a shovel when I want it to though, in sport mode (DSG box) not bad for a 1ltr 3 pot motor.
I just have to remember to slow down on the twistys😁
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Turbo Fabia?
Kamiq SE-L👍
Got my perspective all wrong there!
Nice.
Sometimes I think in selling an MX-5, it’s best to get something totally unrelated. Yo can’t really compare them then, or harp back to it.
Why did you sell your NC Recaro, just fancied a change?
Good luck with the Kamiq. Looks nice.
I’ve had a daily driver and an MX-5 for the past 12 years or so. I bought a newer daily, the one above, then sold the MX-5. At the time I thought it was a great chunk of money to be tied up in the MX-5 for the use I was getting out of it. Rising costs tipped me to sell the lovely NC Recaro, plus I spent some time doing some alterations around my home, even less time driving it.
I feel I need another MX-5 now but taking my time looking seriously for one, even looked at other makes but really they don’t float my boat so far. Sometimes my old bones just say no, just have the one car, less to worry about, clean, maintain etc, I’m not 100% sure what happens next car wise.
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The Kamig, RS Octavia and the Yeti have made the brand serious players.
I got very close to buying your car. Ridiculous as it seems I was just put off by it being white. I love it in the ND but just doesn’t work for me in the NC. Crazy but there you go. I got so close so many evenings to pushing the Go button.
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Yes strange how it works re colours. I’ve had white cars, 2 in fact but that was many years ago. My favourite colour, or was red, had a True red NC before the Recaro. I said I wouldn’t buy a white car again, I then I looked at the NC Recaro and was sold on it. Same with the Kamiq, in my eyes it only looked good in white, colours are so limited in the Skoda range. I searched for a grey colour, similar to the greyish colour of the ND, not many around and definitely not in my price range.
Anyways waffling on, I remember when white was the bog standard colour, that’s how it comes if you don’t spec any other colour, at extra cost of course. Skoda maybe others now charge extra for white, I didn’t buy mine new.
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Yes, I can understand that situation. Mine does about 1-1.5K miles a year, in decent conditions, and I wonder if the insane looking after it head stuff I do is worth it. Times I felt like selling it and getting a ‘normal’ car to mentally be free lol
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5.0 V8 F-Type & Supra for fun and 530d Touring for family duties. Picked up my NC2 last month & super excited to have a project car again and of course a manual gearbox. Plans are for it to be the fun winter car whilst the the Supra & F-Type will be garaged. Although the Supra has already been demoted from the garage to make space 
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Same colour as my 2010 NC…… looks great. When it’s polished like yours , the metallic finish really catches the light.
You have a lovely, characterful fleet.
Thanks. I won’t lie, it wasn’t my first choice of colour, always looks flat and very dark in photos. But once I got it home, cleaned and first going over with the polisher the colour really pops. I didn’t realise it was pearlescent before buying. Beautiful colour and absolutely no regrets. Just need to apply a ceramic coating to preserve it.
It wasn’t my first choice either………
You may recall from the early 2000’s there was a big diesel fuel smuggling issue, which resulted in “Green diesel” being illegally transported, often in vehicles not suited for the task, from the Republic of Ireland to Northern Ireland and indeed onwards to mainland UK. The green marker (similar to red diesel in UK) is used to distinguish between road fuel and heating oil such as ‘kero’ and the smugglers endeavoured to remove the dye illegally, and avoid the (vast) tax implications……selling this to unscrupulous petrol stations, leading to huge financial gain.
I had a nice wee metallic red 2007 NC1, and I was driving between Keady and Armagh City, in Co Armagh (NI) in the NC, on the way home from work. I hit a diesel spill and left the road and passed through some trees (thankfully not hitting any), and dropped about 12 feet into a field. The car thankfully didn’t roll, and I found myself sitting in the car in the field, looking up at the road above- wondering just how I got there.
The police later informed me that they had stopped a conventional curtain sided truck, carrying green diesel, and due to the totally unsuitable vehicle this thing had been haemorrhaging diesel all over the road. I was lucky to survive- I was totally uninjured. The car was written off.
About 2 weeks later, my wife said, you need another Mx5…… but get a blue one next time, I like blue better. And I bought a Stormy Blue metallic NC 2 in Preston and brought it home in December 2010…… one of the worst winters in the UK for snow for years. Not as slippy as diesel.
We always laugh that I had to have a potentially serious accident, to get the colour of car she really wanted……still love it.
More what I’d love, but I’d love this 
Sold the Defender 90 XS after 9 years of ownership, it was a bit of a wrench as we have had two series landy’s and five Defenders, so purchased a Defender 90 S X-Dynamic. 
Above is the old Landy.
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