Comments on the 6th annual Mississauga meet

zytariuk · Post by **zytariuk** » June 22nd, 2003, 6:28 am

Andrew, there was no reason for locking the '2003 6th annual Mississauga meet' topic. It's obvious things need to be said here lol. Plus id' like to share my comments too

.As many of you should already know, there really isn't that many MX-3's with full body kits & rims that actually check mx-3.com and live in the GTA area to start with. Therefore, it's only feasable that only a few of them would be expected to show. If you look at previous Mississauga meets, very few people who attended had their mx-3 decked out with a full body kit and rims.As far as im concerned, it was a decent meet. Collected a lot of ideas, meet some cool people, and overall...enjoyed myself :p . Oh and for the record, personalities clash sometimes...Cobeykaya was just posting his opinon.P.S: Anyone know what rear bumper that was on the back of the Orange acura integra?[ June 22, 2003: Message edited by: zytariuk ]

Andrew_Pakula · Post by **Andrew_Pakula** » June 22nd, 2003, 1:23 pm

The reason I closed the other thread was because I don't want this to start into a flame war.I will leave this topic open however if it gets out of hand I'll close it.

EBUCKS · Post by **EBUCKS** » June 23rd, 2003, 12:21 pm

I see that we are really coming together now.
Let's be real. I too was dissapointed. I thought that I might meet Jeff

. I thought that Oscar might show up with some product

. I thought that we might get some exposure as we did last year

.
Now we have a lack of communication and can't speak our minds.
The fact that the other Mazda show/meet occured on the same date, shows a lack of organization only on our part.
While hanging out with the RX-7 club in April (or whenever) for the Ottawa tour, I realized that there is a level of respect that car owners have for one another. RX-7 owners respect Miata owners and vice versa. All families of Mazda feel that Protege owners have attitude. However, all families of Mazda feel that MX-3 owners are children and have no class, UNLESS THEY COME CORRECT AND DON'T ACT THE FOOL!
If we showed up at the All Mazda meet bickering like we are now, it would have been a worse weekend for all of us. It's time to turn this around. We need organization, not just Andrew making all of the decision. The guy needs help. Who's going to help him? (Andrew, I'm offering).
We also need a positive image, yet we have to stop the wimp crap.
"Be REAL"!
Street Racing - we all do it!
Cursing - we all do it!
Flaming - we all do it! And if a guy deserves it then . . . fukk him up!
How are we going to get respect if we have to act like we're scared. one

P.S. I still have more to say . . . I'm waiting for your replies.

M0RDECHA1 MANDELL · Post by **M0RDECHA1 MANDELL** » June 23rd, 2003, 1:05 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by zytariuk:
As many of you should already know, there really isn't that many MX-3's with full body kits & rims that actually check mx-3.com and live in the GTA area to start with. Therefore, it's only feasable that only a few of them would be expected to show. If you look at previous Mississauga meets, very few people who attended had their mx-3 decked out with a full body kit and rims.
[ June 22, 2003: Message edited by: zytariuk ]<hr></blockquote>I don't wanna get flammed for this but I know why there is performance lacking in the shows. I have had my mx-3 for about 4 years now and there is 2 conflicting interests when it comes to our mx-3's. There are your show mx-3s and then the race ones. I hang out with 6 other mx-3's that have never posted on here and all of them are runnin klze's and even one supercharged klze. This is where interests clash. None of them are interested to see someones mx-3 with butcheria written all over it. Sorry to say it but it must be said that the show mx-3 guys pose no interests to the hardcore racer. If you guys wanna see the performance oriented mx-3's you might be disappointed because there are no glow lights or huge a$$ body kits complimented with heavy 17" rims and euro tails. I don't want anyone to feel bad about what I am saying just that if you think that there is a lack of interest in the mx-3 community you are definatly wrong. I love my mx-3 so much that now that I am makin a lot more money than I did 4 years ago I could easily get a new sports car but I could never give it up!newayz I might get flammed for this but everyone must understand that the fast and the furious look is corny and unfortunatly most mx-3s are done up this way. If you want to have more performance mx-3s showing up then have it at cayuga or somewhere without 50 speed bumps. I didn't post this to hurt any feelings but maybe it is the aftermarket support that holds the mx-3 back and the fact that performance is harder to come by then looks or Maybe I am too old now to be a heat score then I once was.I hope that I didn't offend anyone cause my opinion is just that.

DVH · Post by **DVH** » June 23rd, 2003, 1:30 pm

Sorry bro, i disagree,
My mX is mostly show , besides a CAI and exhaust, but that it no way means that im not interested in the hard core racer, I would have lots in common with them and could very easily talk to them about their car and they could ask about my car, even if they don't go for looks like i do.Second , if we all had the money, i think i speak for everyone on this board, we would love to be runnin ZE's and BPT's, but its a cost factor. It doesn't mean that the guy running his turboed KL ZE can't talk to the guy with a custom full body kit and 18' rims and neons about each others cars.The last thing i wanna see is poeple thinking because they have faster cars than the show guys, that they are too good for us, remember one thing guys and gals, we love our MX-3's becasue they are unique and beautiful, so lets not seperate becasue people have different interests when doing up their car.Thats all i have to say, we're family guys , lets stick together.Oh yeah, what u said elroy , i completely agree! lol
later guys

Andrew_Pakula · Post by **Andrew_Pakula** » June 23rd, 2003, 2:21 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by EBUCKS:

We need organization, not just Andrew making all of the decision. The guy needs help. Who's going to help him? (Andrew, I'm offering).
<hr></blockquote>I try my best to organize things but I usually get little to no feedback about everything that it is hard to organize events properly. I cannot do it all by myself, I am sorry if people were let down by the meet but I did the best I could.Too be honest like I mentioned in the other thread, I was actually expecting a lot less people. In the days just before the meet a lot of people I was talking to didn't seem to be that interested in meet, a lack of enthusiasm, I got the feeling from several people that they would only show up if they weren't doing anything better. The fact that 30 cars still showed up was ok but that number could have been a lot higher. I can think of at least 5-6 people that noticeably didn't show up.After thinking about it for a while though, I don't need all this extra stress and bullsh*t for something that is supposed to be fun anyways. If people don't appreciate my effort then why should I bother? I don't think I will be organizing any more meets this year because of the recent attitude from a few people. I will still come out to meets if someone else organizes them but I am not going to put the effort into it if people are just going to fight about silly trivial things.

YP5 Toronto · Post by **YP5 Toronto** » June 23rd, 2003, 2:22 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by EBUCKS:

While hanging out with the RX-7 club in April (or whenever) for the Ottawa tour, I realized that there is a level of respect that car owners have for one another. RX-7 owners respect Miata owners and vice versa. All families of Mazda feel that Protege owners have attitude. However, all families of Mazda feel that MX-3 owners are children and have no class, UNLESS THEY COME CORRECT AND DON'T ACT THE FOOL!
If we showed up at the All Mazda meet bickering like we are now, it would have been a worse weekend for all of us.
<hr></blockquote>I personally think that 30+ cars to an event is awsome. Congrats to all those that attended that meet. I believe a small handful of Protege's came out to last years meet and would have attended this one if it weren't for MOM 2003.I do have one problem with the statement above? Why would you say that? I am the founding member of www.toprotege.com and I know the heart and soul of the club and it's members.you will ALWAYS have INDIVIDUALS that are ****y and have attitude, but to label the entire group?We have always dicussed amoungst ourselves that the Mazda's of the "past" (not negative) are the main reason why Mazda is where they are today.I hope that you are not interpreting the success we ahve had as a club or the social nature that protege members share with each other as having attitude. We participate in whatever events happen and also work with chartiable organizations.We had a great time with the Miata, RX-7 and MX members that were at MOM 2003. In fact, its not yet official, but TOProtege.com would like to organize next years event.Its too bad that you feel that way and would love for you to expand on that statement (as generic as it is).THIS IS NOT A FLAME, but a request for clarification and in hopes of clearing things up.

EBUCKS · Post by **EBUCKS** » June 23rd, 2003, 2:46 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr> THIS IS NOT A FLAME, but a request for clarification and in hopes of clearing things up. <hr></blockquote>I'm glad I got your attention! It was a perception that I overheard on the street more than once.
This was somewhat discussed at the RX-7 tour. I personally have no problem with the Protege club and I like what you do. When I saw that you were in the Toronto Show at the sky dome I asked the question here "how do we (torontomx3.com) get into that show?
I think that we could learn something from your club and go forward possibly together. Like I said above, "I'm glad I got your attention".one

Nd4SpdSe · Post by **Nd4SpdSe** » June 23rd, 2003, 3:19 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by YP5 Toronto:
We had a great time with the Miata, RX-7 and MX members that were at MOM 2003. In fact, its not yet official, but TOProtege.com would like to organize next years event.[QB]<hr></blockquote>
What i dont understand, although this was my first time to the mississauga meet, i would figure that people would have made it to this one instead of MOM, there were 5 previous mississauga meets, and a 6th should have been expected to happen, but (dont take this the wrong way), some guy pops out of nowhere and organises a meet and "steels" away people which could have and should have been to the mississauga meet.
What i think should have been done is have the missississauga meet in spring/early summer (depending on weather) and have the MOM at then end of the summer. So you have the Mississauga meet for people with a passion for mazda cars that just wanna get together, and you have the MOM at the end of the summer, give them a chance to get out of school, work, put some money into their cars and show them off and possibley win prizes, instead of offering prizes "last years" cars. I know a few people that said they couldnt make it ti 6thMiss cause their cars were barely out of storage... <blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by EBUCKS:
[QB]I think that we could learn something from your club and go forward possibly together.<hr></blockquote>I agree, it could and would be very beneficial

YP5 Toronto · Post by **YP5 Toronto** » June 23rd, 2003, 3:50 pm

I will make sure to forward you the contact person at the Autoshow. I did not have a large hand in organizing that event, but it was straight forward. We had to pay for insurance (less than $50) and the rest was free.It still bothers me that there are people(s) that have a very unfortunate view of Protege's, but what can you do. There will always be people with their opinions, but whether they are founded on facts of substance, you will never know.Thanks for the clarification, but I guess I have to much love for mazda's to be cool with a bad impression of Protege owners that seems to be circulating.As for MOM, it was really just unfortuneate that the events happened on the same day. If TOProtege.com organizes next years event (again not official), this will be taken in consideration next year.I believe that in total there were 2 MX3s and 3 MX6s at MOM.Miatas: 56
Proteges: 39
RX-7: 10
Other: 6TOTAL: 111 CarsAs for our club, we have much to learn from everyone else. Our main page: https://toprotege.com is nowhere near where it could be, especially when compared to the other Toronto Mazda boards. We can and should look at doing an end of year event to try and incorporate everyone....maybe MOM 2003 Reloaded? LOL.

polak_gino · Post by **polak_gino** » June 23rd, 2003, 4:16 pm

andrew im willing to help with anything i can do. and with the whole bumper situation, im pretty sure all of u know i was joking. but ya i agree we need to be a lil more organized

M0RDECHA1 MANDELL · Post by **M0RDECHA1 MANDELL** » June 23rd, 2003, 5:12 pm

Just a suggestion, when you guys meet for the Toronto MX-3 club I would stress the word Toronto when finding a place to meet. Why the hell is the meet in woodbridge? Why don't you want to meet in Toronto? or somewhere that is not so flooded with pigs. I know you guys have to accomedate the people that are in surrounding areas but you have no idea how many mx-3's are in central Toronto that don't want to go out of their way especially on a sunday when most are just relaxing.

mrspanky79 · Post by **mrspanky79** » June 23rd, 2003, 6:45 pm

YP5 Toronto are you the one that organnized the mom event? If so next year contact me and i will organize the event on behave of the mx-board, I will take this one off of your hands andrew but i dont wont be noticefide at the last minute. I will talk you more about it in person at darknights if you are there or who ever runs that part of your club(let me know who its is) and maybe you guys will let me setup with your group. As for BUG$Y you said it "people dont want to travel out of there way" so how do we taller to every one to show up and why should I and many others that are a huge contributer to the club add a nother 1/2hr to and already hour drive just to see the odd person that dosnt want to drive around that block or 15min away to meet up! Dont make sence to me

polak_gino · Post by **polak_gino** » June 23rd, 2003, 6:54 pm

ya i aggree with mr spanky, wood bridge is a good central location. yes it is called the toronto mx-3 club but it is actaully a club for the greater toronto area.like i said above it is a good central location, cuz ppl coem from all over ( mississauga, niagra falls, barrie, Keswick, etobicoke)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » June 23rd, 2003, 7:02 pm

BUG$Y i totally agree with you. big stereo's and body kits arn;t everything. its nice to see someone who apriciates a nice clean swapped mx-3. there hard to come by now adays. people rice isn;t cool! i hope one day u will realize that. a swapped mx-3 with a total stock look to it will get way more respect then a riced up pos in my books...

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