• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I always call it an MX-5, and so does everybody I know

    I own one (albeit a rusty 2005 NB model I bought for £600, not a new one unfortunately), so it gets spoken about a lot

    Are you from the US/another market where it’s sold as the Miata? Because here only people who are into MX-5s would even know it gets called a Miata in some markets

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      8 months ago

      Oh that makes sense, there was a different comment/post a while back complaining about Mazda “retconning” Miata’s into MX-5s (American Market/Presumably to drop the Miata name) that brought this to mind.

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        8 months ago

        Ohh I had no idea about that. But yeah I’d probably continue calling it a Miata if I were in that situation too

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        8 months ago

        For NA it was originally an “MX-5 Miata” they dropped Miata for the NC/3rd generation then brought it back on the newest (ND/ 4th gen) ones.