Much maligned as the black sheep of the Miata family, this generation proves that even a bad Miata is a great sports car.

The Miata is best with a soft top, but the RF hardtop remains an appealing, oddball alternative.

So it's amazing that we have any cheap little sports cars like the Toyota GR86, Subaru BRZ and Mazda MX-5 Miata. Even more ...

Available as either a soft-top roadster or with a folding “retractable fastback” hardtop on the MX-5 Miata RF, the lightweight, rear-wheel-drive Miata doesn’t need a lot of power to generate ...

but let's take a step back for a second. All together, the Miata and GR86 sold a grand total of 19,529 cars in 2024. Meanwhile, the Subaru BRZ only added another 3,345 sales to the total.

The new Miata is expected to adopt the 1.5-liter Skyactiv four found in the Mazda3, albeit retuned to rev higher and deliver more power and torque, mated to either a six-speed manual or automatic ...

Not this Miata, though, as it's been kitted out with ... so the team set to work rectifying that by ripping off the tracks and replacing the rear ones with the drive belt from a snowmobile.

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Highway-speed AEB is not offered. The fourth-generation Miata remains true to Mazda's original formula of a lightweight, rear-wheel-drive roadster. Although 155 hp from the 2.0-liter four doesn't ...