Mazda MX-5 Miata News

The next MX-5 will go back to its roots.

Mazda’s 'NC' MX-5 Miata is set to be replaced by an all-new model next year, but the current one is still proving popular. A special anniversary model celebrating the nameplate’s 25 years on the market went on sale recently and all 100 cars earmarked for the U.S. were claimed in just 10...

Mazda will be taking its MX-5 Miata to the Nürburgring next month for the annual 24-hour race that takes place on the arduous German race track. The move is part of Mazda’s 25th anniversary celebrations this year for the MX-5, and to mark the current-generation NC model’s departure...

A couple of years ago we brought you details on a Dutch firm by the name of Huet Brothers that was working on new sports car that combined retro styling with modern mechanicals. Simply labeled the Huet Brothers Coupe, the new sports car was due to go on sale this year but now that release date has...

Mazda has launched a pre-order program for its 2015 MX-5 Miata 25th Anniversary Edition, which made its debut last month at the 2014 New York Auto Show. As its name suggests, the new special edition celebrates the 25 years since the launch of the original ‘NA’ MX-5 back in 1989 but it...

It's been 25 years since the Mazda MX-5 Miata sports car was unveiled at the 1989 Chicago Auto Show, but Mazda has chosen to celebrate the model at this year's New York Auto Show. It has done so by bringing at least part of the next-generation vehicle along to tease enthusiasts. That part is...

This year marks the 25th year of Mazda's evergreen MX-5 sports car. It's been a huge success story for the Japanese automaker--over 900,000 units have been produced over the past 25 years, across three generations of car--a much longer shelf life than most vehicles in the industry. The car's 26th...

Yesterday we told you that Mazda would be celebrating the past 25 years of its MX-5 Miata sports car at the 2014 New York Auto Show next month, and that there would be 15 significant models on display spanning concepts, race cars and production cars. Now we’ve learned that we may just get a...

Mazda will display 15 significant MX-5 models at the 2014 New York Auto Show.

There are many things that make oval-track racing more conducive to huge audiences than road racing, not least of which is that the track is always visible to people in the stands, and so, too, are the passes. Fortunately the Internet exists, to let us see acts of greatness like this first lap from...

The Mazda MX-5 Miata sports car has just turned 25, and Mazda is gearing up for a whole year of celebrations that will culminate with the unveiling of a fourth-generation model, the ND, sometime in the near future. Car aficionado and an MX-5 owner himself Jay Leno decided to host his own...

On February 9, 1989, the world was introduced to the very first generation of Mazda’s MX-5 Miata convertible sports car at the Chicago Auto Show. That first MX-5, the NA, then went on to win rave reviews from many of the top magazines and would eventually spawn two successors. Now, a fourth...

As a Miata owner myself, I am biased, I admit. But that doesn't change the reality of the matter. The Miata is always the answer, no matter the question. Here, you can see Matt Farah on a Drive visit with an NC CJ Wilson race car and a Lexus V-8-powered NA street Miata built and owned by team...

Motor Authority's spy photographers have just scored new images of what could be the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata, the next-generation of the popular roadster and the basis of a new Alfa Romeo Spider. Wearing a current-generation MX-5 body, the mule has bodywork add-ons that suggest the future hard points...

Detractors of Mazda's evergreen MX-5 sports car often come back to one point: It just doesn't have enough power. Fans of the car would disagree, but we're sure nobody will complain at the news, via Auto Express, that Mazda's MX-5 GT concept is set for production. The car, developed by race...

Mazda set a new world record over the weekend for the “largest parade of Mazda cars” using its MX-5 Miata sports car. A total of 683 MX-5s joined a procession organized by the automaker in Lelystad, the Netherlands, forming the longest parade of driving Mazdas ever and shattering the...

Mazda is hoping to set a new world record for the “largest parade of Mazda cars” using its MX-5 Miata sports car. The Japanese automaker is in the process of organizing a gathering of as many as 800 MX-5s at a meet in Lelystad, the Netherlands, on June 15, 2013. The MX-5, of course, is...

There are all manner of rumors concerning the next-generation Mazda MX-5 Miata, with reports claiming the car will feature a compact turbocharged engine, tip the scales at less than 2,200 pounds and perhaps even offer a dual-clutch transmission. What we do know is that the car will be based on a...

Esteemed moto-journalist Chris Harris doesn’t like the Mazda MX-5 Miata. In an now-famous article, Harris shot down the MX-5 as a sports car, calling it “just a way of being exposed to the elements.” Worse, he penned that the MX-5 “drives with all the precision of a boneless...

Like us, you've probably been tracing the projected path of Mazda's next-generation MX-5 for years. Whether you thought the third-gen NC MX-5 was a step in the right direction or not, the fourth-gen car is shaping up to be very interesting indeed. We already know that the next MX-5 will be shared...