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Mazda celebrates 35 years of the Miata with new special edition MX-5

2025 marks the 35th anniversary of the Miata. To celebrate, Mazda is offering 300 examples of the all-new 2025 MX-5 Miata 35th Anniversary.

You Need This: A one-of-350, Competition Yellow Mica Mazda RX-7 R1

A more exclusive FD-chassis RX-7? The R1 was only sold in North America, and Mazda only built 350 of them in Competition Yellow Mica.

You Need This: JDM Mazda RX-7 modified by Knight Sports

Not just a Japanese-market RX-7, but one modified by Japanese tuning shop Knight Sports.

You Need This: A (very) stripped-down Miata M Edition

Starting life as an M Edition, this Miata has since been turned into a turbocharged "street legal" kart.

You Need This: Mazda Miata M Edition with fewer than 43,000 miles

Clean, unmodified and showing fewer than 43,000 miles, can you really go wrong with this 1997 M Edition Miata?

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Mazda articles

Shop Work: What we've learned after a lifetime of project cars

What wisdom have we gleaned from years of GRM project cars? We're glad you asked.

Features: Is the current Mazda MX-5 Club still the answer®? | Track Test

Is the Miata's latest refresh enough to keep it ahead of the BRZ and GR86? We take an ND3 Mazda MX-5 Club to our official test track to find out.

Columns: What can bring together generations? Nuts and Bolts.

Think you can't bond with other generations? Try talking about nuts and bolts.

Features: Which Miata makes the best race car: NA, NB, NC or ND?

How does the ND-chassis Mazda Miata MX-5 Cup compare to the NA-, NB-, and NC-chassis Cup Cars?

Shop Work: How to add inexpensive power with a salvage yard supercharger

No movie magic, no special effects. For less than $200 we put together our own supercharger setup.

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Mazda project cars

1992 Miata

This 1992 Miata has been with Grassroots Motorsports since 1998. It’s a keeper. 

2019 ND MX-5

We seek out to build an MX-5 that’s equally adept at autocross, circuit use and comfortable cruising.

1996 Miata

The perfect formula for a budget-friendly endurance racer car? We try stuffing a GM LFX V6 into an NA-chassis Miata.

1996 Rotary Miata

Will a turbocharged rotary engine from Mazda's RX-7 fit into a Miata? One of our departed forum members wanted to find out, and now we're finishing his project to fund …

1992 Miata - Sunburst Yellow

This Sunburst Yellow Miata--one of 1519 built--was advertised for $700 on our message board. When we went to pick it up, the seller didn't have a title. So we got …

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Mazda project car updates

A new location to do Miata stuff with Miata friends?

A car culture needs a home base, right? For several years, Ace Café served that need for the Orlando metro area. One night they’d host the Jeep crew, the next …

Do you really need competition-grade lug nuts?

Does it matter what lug nuts you run? After all, they only secure your wheels to the car, right?

When we converted our BMW M3 from wheel bolts …

How to upgrade an LFX’s PCV system for track use

Our V6-swapped Miata was rapidly approaching finished, and past experience with modern direct-injected engines taught us to anticipate one problem before it began: the stock LFX PCV system. …

Do you know if your wheel studs are still safe?

The wheel studs on our Garage Rescue Miata are now more than 30 years old, meaning they’ve probably seen things. Are they still up to spec, or are …

Bomb-proof hubs for our endurance race Miata? Yes, please.

Nobody likes it when the wheels fall off their race car. And sadly, the wheels on our V6-powered Miata wanted to come loose.

We had already taken …

Mazda Forum Topics

The Miata experience: his and hers.
My ND2 Miata, err, MX-5 not-a-project
What car is this speedometer from?
Rally Revival: 1973 Mazda RX3 Rally Car
MX-5 Cup race from Martinsville
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