That lucky [censored] devil Peter Lyon over at Inside Line went to Japan and drove the 2010 Mazda Miata. Besides the pretty/good looking/cd lowering face lift, the other newness includes Bilsteins off the  MX-5 NR-A (a Japanese market racing spec Miata). This improves cornering and high speed stability (though Peter says it harshens the ride). I [...]

Occasionally, something comes along that’s so common sense, so stare-you-in-the-face obvious you wonder why you didn’t think of it first. Magnetic screwdrivers. Florescent trouble lights. A rotary-powered Miata. After all, the RX-7 was a godsend because of its high-revving, siren-song 13B rotary. Mazda has another heavenly ride in its stable in the Miata. Anyone who [...]

Say you want a Morgan — the classic and gorgeous British sports car. But you don’t want to spend the crazy money, and for all the Morgan’s charms, you don’t know if you can handle a car made at least a little bit of wood. While Morgans are great to drive, they still go like [...]

Wow. Damn. Dude. OK, so there’s a LeMons team out in here in California called “Eyesore Racing.” We call ‘em “The Pimps” because of their unprecentedly awesome last car, the Eyesore Pimping CRX. Well, we can forget all that pimp shit as these boys have simply changed the game. You are looking at the Ghettorcharged [...]

Full disclosure: I write for thetruthaboutcars.com, and while I had no say in the process (the readers nominate and vote on the cars. And I was too lazy busy to help narrow down the list), I did write two of the blurbs — Mazda MX-5 Miata and Honda Fit. Two most excellent cars, I might [...]

Thanks to the slippery fingers over at EU’s Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market (kinda like a copy right office), we’ve gotten a good look at Mazda’s planned update for their iconic roadster. The good news is all of the good-looking parts of the current body style remain, including the pronounced fender flares and [...]

Maybe it’s my latent socialist tendencies, but looking at all the Pebble Beach news floating ’round the webs has got my proletariat blood up. The everyman Miata is a perfect antidote. Besides, if you’ve ever driven a Miata on a road like that, I don’t need to justify this picture to you. At all.

The Japanese automaker has set a self-imposed deadline of 2015 to have a completely revised, more fuel efficient line-up. So far Mazda has focused on ditching extra poundage in order to glean more miles per out of their fleet, but over the next few years direct injection and start-stop technology will work its way into [...]

So says Autoblog. According to Mazda’s PR man Jeremy Barnes, the 2.3-liter direct injected turbo that kicks mucho booty in various states of tune under the hoods of the CX-7, Mazdaspeed 3 and Mazdaspeed 6 simply will not fit in the diminutive Miata. Well, the engine will fit, but unless they cut a hole in [...]

Have you checked your investment portfolio lately? You notice how it’s down? Not fun, is it? The last thing lots of folks want to do in these troubled economic times is to outlay a ton of cash only to face rapid depreciation the second they drive their new car off the lots. Luckily, the used [...]