The Mazda Miata is beloved for being tiny and light, a combination of qualities most modern automakers seem to avoid like the ...

Program manager Toshihiko Hirai set out an ambitious roadmap for Mazda’s inaugural sports roadster: It was to have perfectly balanced front/rear ... these efforts, the NA Miata, in 1989.

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

It’s a car loved the world over, nearing the end of its fourth decade, and remains a benchmark: It’s time for the NA Miata to ditch the gas and go electric. At this point I’ve no doubt there ...