the guy who I got the car from has a kid on the way and needed a bigger car, we traded straight up, Im really enjoying driving the miata, its nowhere near as fast as the SHO was , but its still very torquey for a 1.6 , id compare it to a dohc zc or a ls b18a1/b1 all day, and the MPG's ARE SWEET! allready sunburnt 2