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2018 Mazda MX-5 Miata Club Review
Get it while you can. The last real sports car, that is. Mazda still makes it, just as they have for the past three decades. But given our national craze for self-driving cars, who knows how long this delectable purebred sports car will last?
Read More »2017 Mazda MX-5 Miata GT Review
25 years ago, here’s what I had to say about the 1992 Mazda MX-5 Miata in my Edmund’s book 20 Best 1992 Cars: “Miata makes blissfully few concessions to practicality because it is designed to do one thing better than anything else. That one thing is to give you a thrill a mile when you drive it.”
Read More »2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata Review
The MX-5 Miata is still without question the sharpest scalpel in any driver’s kit bag. Learn to drive a Miata well, and you will instantly become a better driver than you were before. Because this diminutive sports car requires concentration, coordination, and adept manipulation of all control interfaces.
Read More »2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata Review
The all new 2016 Mazda Miata provided the highlight of my test driving year. In the Bay Area, one of the most challenging back roads traverses the foothills between Sunol and Fremont. This narrow, tortuous stretch of pavement includes hundreds of sharp turns, most of them blind on entrance or exit.
Read More »Review: 2015 Mazda MX-5 Miata Grand Touring
25 Years ago, Mazda introduced their Miata sports car, a concept so radically right that it has hardly changed over the intervening two and a half decades. Miata means “little pearl” in Japanese, and the oyster that nurtured this gem of a car could not have been more perfect.
Read More »Mazda MX-5 Miata Essential Buyer’s Guide
Mazda MX-5 Miata (Mk1 1989-1997 & Mk2 1998-2001) – The Essential Buyer’s Guide by Carla Crook The iconic Mazda Miata has been around for 22 years offering a true, top-down, sports car experience. With its 50/50 weight distribution, nimble handling, and simplistic approach to engineering, the Miata MX-5 is inexpensive, easy to maintain, and fun […]
Read More »New Miata Debuts In Japan
sa-WEET! I love these little guys. Sure, a lot of people, men mostly, look at Miatas as being “girls cars”. They either don’t know the first thing about sports cars, have never ridden in the passenger seat of one when a competent driver is at the wheel, or are in the midst of some heavy […]
Read More »2008 Mazda MX-5 Miata Review – Can it Really be Improved?
Introduced at the dawn of the 1990s as a throwback to the rear-wheel drive roadsters of yesteryear, it was an instantaneous hit. Lightweight, stripped-down, simple, inexpensive and insanely fun to drive, Mazda used the right ingredients. Through the 1990s the Miata got better and better, winning a war chest of industry awards and accolades. As further validation of the car’s success, Spec Miata became one of the most popular classes in American motorsport racing.
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