Were you hoping to get your hands on one of the 100 2014 Mazda MX-5 Miata 25th Anniversary Edition roadsters? Alas, you can stop holding your breath: All 100 were sold within 10 minutes.
Autoblog reports Mazda opened its pre-order site for the roadster on Tuesday with the idea of keeping it open until the end of May or when 250 customers registered. Ten minutes later, 250 customers signed up, leaving the automaker with the unenviable task of contacting and verifying the first 100 who will be granted the opportunity to order this particular MX-5.
Once the customer chooses either the $32,205 six-speed manual or $32,655 six-speed sport automatic with manual shift, “the customer’s information will then be forwarded to the dealership of their choosing to finalize the transaction.” All models come with a retractable hard top, the Soul Red paint found on the Mazda6, special badging inside, and a custom Tourneau watch among the pieces available.
Finish with this already, Mazda. Where’s my ND?
Bring back the pop up lights man! Those were awesome.
Agreed – I love them. Except it’s nearly impossible to come across one that functions correctly. How many have either of their flaps fully operational these days? They look so sad with a droopy eye.
I love me some pop-up headlights. Car is 26 years old and mine still work!
The Porsche 928 and the RX7 SAVANNAH were the most besty uses of pop-ups.
And the Cizeta, if you wanna count that one.
The pop-up headlights are why my ’96 was totalled after relatively minor front end damage. If that mechanism is damaged, repair costs skyrocket.
I don’t get the fascination with pop-up headlights. Yes, when I was a kid, I thought they were cool (mostly because they were on sports cars), but then again, I thought hot dogs were cool, too.
Pop ups and hot dogs are both cool. Of course, I drive a Volvo wagon, so maybe I am no expert on cool. :)
I had two Miatas with the pop ups, they were much better looking than anything since. I never thought of them as cool, just fun.
My understanding is because of pedestrian safety standards, pop-ups would be difficult to implement on a modern car.
From what I can gather, the 04 Corvette and 04 Lotus Esprit were the last remaining vehicles with pop-ups.
You may be right, Demetri. Just one more reason to hate big government!
The pop-up headlamps were cool on the angular, edgy cars of the 80’s…like the third-gen Accord, and on cars with simple, timeless, pleasing lines (like the NA Miata). I don’t think they’d look so cool on any newer cars…even the NC Miata.
It seems odd to me that no one has been buying the NC3, but people are lining up to pay a premium for a special paint job now that the car is in its final year.
That’s exactly what I was thinking… this doesn’t seem like anything special so why the hot sellout? I would rather have a Club Sport with a real softtop. The color is nice, but not much different than the regular red on the CS.
I guess it would go nicely with my Mazda6 Sport in the same color with blacked out wheels to match. But I didn’t buy it… lol
And you’d think that if these people were such fanatics, they’d be saving up their cash to buy the ND Miata.
A Club model pulled up next to me yesterday at Sonic Drive-In, although it was white with a black hardtop (I too like the soft top much better). My sister was all like, “Kyree, why does that car have a spade on it?”
Sigh…
Does it actually have a club emblem? I’m not very up to date on Miatas.
We’re only talking about a few hundred. In those quantities, you’re going to see some examples of inelastic demand.
The Miata sells a few hundred a month. These are the folks who probably would have bought one anyway, and they see the ‘special editionness’ of them as preserver of value, hence their willingness to pay a few grand more than they normally would have.
Last year I bought a 1990 with 73000 miles in beautiful shape for $4300.
Unless you plan to use your Miata as a daily driver, I’d recommend that approach as a far superior financial proposition vs this 25th anniv car.
These Special ones will go right into the garage to be rarely driven.
The elevated red lift-up bit behind the shiny black roof looks odd to me. I think it would end up much more cohesive if monotone.