I've just bought an MX5 as a spare car as my Morgan is about to be taken to bits. £500 has bought a 1990 Eunos Roadster with 12 months MOT and today brought the log book, so I was able to tax it.
It's been a bit of a culture shock to go from a 40(ish) year old Morgan to a 21 year old Mazda. The performance is pretty similar but the Mazda is much cheaper to fix and does rather more mpg. It also goes around corners with very little drama; the generally lousy roads make fast progress by Morgan a rather crashy process; the Mazda is less affected by potholes and bad patches.
My wife wants the Mazda sold quickly, so I don't think I'll get attached to it but I am already rather fonder of it than I thought I'd be.
