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Sam (350Z), Sam (S2000), John (S2000), Luke (RX-7) and me (Mazdaspeed MX-5)

It’s been a little while since our last organized car cruise event, so John and Sam pulled together another fun route through Southern California. This time our route would take us farther east out towards Lake Elsinore. There we got off the 91 freeway and headed towards Ortega Highway (California State Highway 7). Following a few twisties, the route lead us to Pacific Coast Highway (PCH).

Ortega Highway was pretty busy and there wasn’t much space to allow more aggressive canyon driving. After a while things cleared up. PCH was pretty busy as well, but there was plenty of eye candy when it came to looking for rare and exotic cars. We ended the trip at a local seafood restaurant in Newport Beach.

I’ve been itching to hit up some canyon roads with the MX-5 ever since I got it back from the body shop. The car was finally back in a condition where it was ready for some twisties. I have a new set of BF Goodrich g-Force™ Sport tires and a realigned suspension setup. Now that the weather has been clearing up, John Wu and I have really interested in organizing a car cruise.

The last time we had one of these cruises, we headed down to Mt. Palomar in San Diego. It’s always fun to get a bunch of car people together to talk about cars and hit up some twisties. This time we wanted something closer, yet new to most of us. John came up with a great route that took us through the Malibu canyon area. These wonderful route covered everything from stretches of farmland through tight twists and turns of a challenging canyon road. (more…)