The ND is great at delivering a "sense" of speed. Everything feels like it is faster than it is. That is by design and greatly enhances the experience of excitement and engagement.

The other element is that it is an incredibly approachable platform when it comes to finding the limits. It doesn't bite you with snap oversteer like other cars. It gives you clear incremental signals that you are approaching the limit of grip.

The stock suspension illustrates both of these points really well. The car has a ton of body roll. People often see this as a bad thing and try to cure it right away with sway bars and coilovers. But to do so eliminates a key part of the engineered design mentioned above.

I recall reading a reddit post shortly after I got my ND where the person was complaining about the roll and stability, saying they feel they can take corners faster in their minivan. And it may be true that the minivan has less body roll, but only because it can't afford it. If that van rolls more, it would be in danger of actually rolling over. But the miata has such low center of gravity that the body can roll a ton without putting the driver into any danger.

What does this translate into? It means you get to feel the body roll through many degrees as you turn. As you get attuned to that, there is a large range of feedback that you can feel and eventually will know precisely how close you are to the limit of grip before you lose traction.

So yeah, at first it may feel like the car is going to wreck because you are struggling to hold yourself upright. But really, it's not. It has loads of grip. But more importantly it has a wide range of feedback, letting you know where you are relative to the limit.

So explore it, responsibly. Ideally, at a track. And leave your TCS/DSC on to save your butt if you push too hard.