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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 (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?

You Need This: A Mazda doing a shrubbery impression

Buy this mystery Mazda–the listing says it's an MX-3, but we aren't too sure–and the seller will throw in the ivy and weeds free of charge.

You Need This: Pitcrew Eunos Roadster with all the JDM goodies

A JDM Eunos Roadster with virtually every aftermarket upgrade available in Japan–including a full Pitcrew aero kit? We got you covered.

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: The best part of a lifetime spent in motorsports? Passing the torch.

One of the best parts of a lifetime spent with cars? No, it's not the rare widgets or years of know-how, but the opportunity to pass the love of motorsports to the next generation.

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.

News and Notes: MiataCon: Celebrating one of our favorite sports cars

MiataCon 2024 was one of the biggest yet, with more spectators and more MIatas.

Features: Bringing the professionals’ tricks to the clubman racer

Back in 2008, we explained that you don’t need to cheat to keep up with the pros, you just need to cover your bases and drive right at the limit.

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. …