FWD Miata with Turbo and Hardtop for the price of Miata Hardtop?

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I've always wanted to beat on one of these. 

These cars take up almost 0 space in my mind so your title thoroughly confused me.

I drove them both back to back when I bought my Miata a million years ago.  The Mercury felt like a Ford Escort convertible.  Just another fwd car.  It didn't have the specialness of the Miata.  However, since $1,500 Miatas are a thing of the past, this could be fun for what it is.

Someday I'm gonna have to buy one of these to justify my teamcapri.com forum membership.

There's a guy who will mod your ECU to upgrade the fuel map so that you can run more boost safely.

https://www.werbatfik.com/ecu.htm

For the record, the tires are so skinny that the front tires can drag the rears around with the parking brake on. It may have happened back when these were rental car fodder.

It has the same basic engine and it came out at the same time - but it's not exactly a Miata. If that's the case, a Kia Sephia GS is basically a 1995 Miata. And an Escort GT is a Miata. These Capris primarily exist to provide spare parts for the 323 GTX :)

These are a glimpse into an alternate reality where Mazda has no sports car genes and takes the easy way out with their lightweight sports car. It was proposed.

I want to believe that, with enough backyard engineering, and enough junkyard swaps, these could be pretty nice to drive and all that.  But I won't be spending my time and money to get there so someone else should do it and document it in a deep fashion to let me know if I was right or not.

And "Convertible Escort GT" would be about right, I think, and not "FWD Miata".