Guest Driver // Former Big 3 Exec goes for a mountain run in our 500hp+, V8 ND Miata promo-car

This is the first of a series of videos featuring guest drivers, of varying car-enthusiast backgrounds, experiencing how the "SS Package" transforms the already excellent 4th generation Miata into a truly ferocious, thrilling, and joyful car to drive without losing any of its approachability or street manners. Ride along to see and hear the reactions and thoughts on what the car is like when being driven on roads where the drive is as much the point as the destination. 0:00 Intro 1:02 Other car experience 2:40 Suspension talk 3:44 General thoughts 5:07 Some open road 5:42 Porsche owner perspective 7:06 Compared to everything else? 7:57 More open road 8:24 Driving aids? 8:50 Comfortable? 9:24 Bang for buck? 10:50 Handling in the S's 11:53 Upcoming build queue 14:03 More open road fun 15:26 Shifter feel? 16:01 Eating up some twisties 16:54 Final thoughts and reaction