people with 2 seater/sports cars-is it a real nuicance?

I had an MX5 and found it a total pain, like you I do go down some less than ideal tracks, and found myself holding my breath every time I went over a pot hole.

Did come in handy once at Addington on a particularly wet stallion day, they were parking people in a muddy field and the bloke on the gate toook one look at me in my little sporty number and said I could park in the lorry park!

Lovely as a second car but not on if it is your only one.
 
my mum has a z4, she doesnt have any issues with the boot space (it is as big as my corsa's easily). With the roof down she can get 2 bags of feed in, with it up she has had 4 bags in it. the only real issue she has is the winter means it sits in the garage for a few weeks usually and YO does horse or i walk up if have few hours spare!! We do have a 4x4 aswell so have option of either.
they are low to ground so bumpy farm tracks are no good for them.
Personally i wouldnt have one, but try it out and see how you find it
 
I have an MGF and it fits a bag of alpha in the boot. Wouldnt change it for the worl I love my fun car, BUT am very glad i have a truck as well!
 
yep my coupe feels like its ripped to pieces when I go down dirt tracks / old roads etc - its amazing in the summer down the motorway and its been mega reliable but as a car to get horsey stuff in and for the country its not great.

Id stick with the beemer hun and then have another think in a few months if you really want a new car
 
My oh has a TT convertible and it would be a pain for me...but I drive an Audi A3 so we have the practical car as well...would never fit feed in the TT....though I get all my feed delivered I still like to be able to carry stuff.

The TT doesn't cope well with pot holes or speed bumps either.

Just one thing....I had a civic and hated it to drive, no guts at all...however it's safety features are top notch as I proved when I did this to mine...

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Cross wind on a wet road, I was going wide in the outside lane to get out of the lorry spray, got caught in cross wind and clipped a curb, lost traction, skidded for about 200 yards then hit the verge head in, flipped it right up onto it's nose and over. Fascinating to watch grass and airbags coming at you all at once! I got out without a scratch, and no whiplash.

No, I wasn't speeding.
 
We are on our 3rd MX-5, they are not to everyones tastes (judging by some of the opinions on here!) but me and my husband love ours. My first one I bought when I was 20 and kept for 7 years. I could fit all manner of stuff in mine including a doberman! It used to travel down a steep rutted chalk track and across a field daily and suffered no ill effects. The next one was my husbands, cruelly killed by a foreign lorry on the M1 :(

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Bearing in mind we were doing 75mph when we were sideswiped, hit twice by the lorry and spun multiple times, hitting both crash barriers, the damage it suffered was minimal (even though it was written off) and having such a low centre of gravity it didn't overturn.

Our third is a new black one, reliable as anything, can fit a whole tesco shop for three people in there, you just have to be a bit creative. I enjoy driving it (when Im allowed) and it is fairly economical. :)
 
I would have thought the MX5 was a big no no with pot holes and general horsey places as you say. Plus it really is as tiny as roadsters get!!

I have a Merc SLK which is absolute bliss as I do a lot of motorway driving, it really is just sit back and the car takes you, so for me the benefits far outweight the disadvantages (I rarely put the roof down TBH) Can just squeeze 2 haylage bales in the boot, definitely not a saddle! Its shallow but very long, so can fit lots of long flat things in, like I don't know, 20 pairs of Konigs?! We do live on a very pot holey road and its fine if you go slow, my Dad's old 3 series BMW was surprisingly much lower at the front and used to scrape much more.
 
you can get a jump saddle in the boot but not a dressage saddle. A hay bale also fits in but with little room for much else - especially if you want to close the boot! A doberman is ok but it knocks it out of gear and/or messes with the volume control on the stereo. My lab/collie used to sit on the parcel shelf thing with the roof down although I suppose this wasn't especially safe, or legal :)
 
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