| I got to drive a few other cars on the autocross course yesterday. As part of the team challenge, I put 5 runs in in a Miata with 710s (super sticky tires). That car was so easy to drive it was silly. I was faster in that than in my own car.
The local spec-miata brothers decided to autocross the new daily driver - a 2-door Toyota Yaris hatch. They threw some almost dead Toyo RA1s on it from the Miatas, and chucked the Yaris around the course all day. Everybody was cracking up watching it run. Tons of body roll, so much that it would be lifiting front wheels off the ground and getting wheelspin. But, with a really good driver behind the wheel, it was pretty quick - almost as quick as my Cooper on street tires. The Yaris also had tons of oversteer under braking. Looks like a Yaris might actually have potential as a cheap / fun car. I took one run in the Yaris, and couldn't stop laughing. It might actually even pull a little harder than my Cooper.
I also took one run in a Toyota MR-Spyder (the last version of the MR2). Now I need a mid engine car. That was my favorite car of the ones I drove. So easy to get the back end to step out and then just balance the car however you want to. And my rear wheel drive experience is a total of maybe 10 minutes. I highly recommend that if you get a chance to drive an MR-Spyder, you take that opportunity. | 
