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    2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi

    2009 Mazda MX-5 Miata: Celebrating 20 Years With A Chi-Town Party

    2009 Mazda Miata MX-5 Launched In Japan
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    02/12/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    When these first launched, people just stopped and stared at them because it had been so long in the US since anything like it had rolled out; clean, simple design, classic. Of course, you get to a certain age and you're not sure how long it would take you to get in and out of one, and how much creaky knees, grunting and fat shifting it would take, up to and including the Jaws of Life.
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    Image of DoctorNine's D9 Cat DoctorNine's D9 Cat
    02/12/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: All of which make me more likely to get one. Now if they could just lose that smiley face front fascia... It's like that muscular tennis player at the club, whom you admire in her little skirt, but can't stand when she is constantly exhibiting that vapid smile in all sorts of inappropriate places.
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    Image of Number_Six Number_Six
    02/11/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    I love the Miata but just cannot be seen in one (unless a young Diana Rigg lookalike is driving).
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    02/11/09

    @Number_Six, unsecured and hacked: hold the phone...


    this one:

    this one:

    or this one:

    ???
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    Image of JCWhitless JCWhitless
    02/12/09

    @damnelantra™ gives up on screen name play: This never happened to the other roadsters...
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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/11/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    This one looks different...
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    Image of discontinuuity has left the Jalop until further notice discontinuuity has left the Jalop until further notice
    02/12/09

    @layabout now with V8 power: I'm sorry, but that thing is terribly ugly. Looks like a '90s Saturn wagon.
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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/12/09

    @discontinuuity: Why sorry? Your right it is pig ugly.
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    02/11/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    The best MX5 was only avaliable in Japan,i've seen one in the U.K. imported...
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    02/12/09

    @layabout now with V8 power: oy. that is fine. note to porsche...you used to do this.
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    02/11/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    Am I the only one amused by the fact that even their babied, mostly-for-display, fourteenth off the line NA has a hood that doesn't line up with the headlights just like everyone else's NA?
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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    02/11/09

    @Skunky: You can pull the edges of the headlight doors up by hand to get the gaps better. I learned this when Tom Matano, one of the NA chief designers, did it on my Miata when I interviewed him for a magazine story.
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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    02/11/09

    @theeastbaykid: I've done that, also one old dude at a local Miata meet massaged (the only word that can describe what he did) my hood to unwarp it slightly, so my car isn't as bad as most, but it's still noticeable. I also have to push down on the back passenger side of it after having it open to get it flat with the fender.


    The fun of dealing with the price of weight-savings. :)

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    02/11/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    Given the day's events, his epic comment from Murilee seems apropos:

    [jalopnik.com]


    A Great Moment in Jalopnik History, right there.

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    Image of akier akier
    02/11/09

    @Mad_Science: +1. that was 1000% blue veiny jalopnik.
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    Image of .357 .357
    02/11/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    Great car light and well balanced.
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    Image of TheDanMan,Prefers Kilowatts to Horsepower TheDanMan,Prefers Kilowatts to Horsepower
    02/11/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    Having had a nice 2005 turbo SE model, these are such pure drivers cars.


    The best British car Japan ever made.

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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/11/09

    @TheDanMan,Prefers Kilowatts to Horsepower: I would say i wish they did a Turbo version for the U.K.,but kind of pointless as i don't really fit in them anyway.
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    02/11/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    The ignorant, immature side of me says "GET A HUMMER" but the sensible, lover-of-lightweight-agility side says "I WANT ONE. This is too much for me to handle.
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    Image of If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
    02/11/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    Seriously, where are the booth professionals?
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    02/11/09

    @FromaBuick6: I guess even Mazda's buying into the stereotype now.
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    Image of c0de c0de
    02/11/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    man, i want that non convertible miata SO BAD !
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    02/11/09

    @c0de: i think i have miata pms. some days i think, yah i could rock that. others i just look at it and say no.


    sometimes i just dont know anymore*!


    * wimper, wimper, wimper

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    02/11/09

    @c0de: That thing would have sold like gangbusters with the autocross crowd (increased rigidity and what-have-you).


    The current hardtop convertible probably makes Mazda think there's no longer a need for a fixed-roof version. That appears to be the case with the Z4.

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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    02/11/09

    @c0de: Personally I'm irritated by the fact that they keep showing it off without ever having offered it. I'd rather be driving a coupe version of my NA. I mostly put up with the soft top until I can get ahold of a colour matching hardtop with defrost.
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    Image of layabout layabout
    02/11/09

    @Skunky: It was for JDM only,some were imported by private owners to other countries. I've only seen one.
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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    02/11/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    Hard to believe the Miata is 20 and the Solstice didn't come out until 2006. Oh, wait, no it's not.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    02/11/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    So, no Jalopnik Mobile Command Center?
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    02/11/09

    @Syrax is not a star commenter: Budget cuts, haven't you heard?
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    02/11/09

    @Schm-san, SHO-time, fo-SHO.: i heard spinelli took all the gawker ad money and spent it on the worlds most exquisite crystal kazoo
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    02/11/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda Miata MX-5: 20 Years Of Beer And Sushi
    i could imagine, with less personal control, that beer and sushi could go horribly wrong
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    Image of acarr260 acarr260
    02/11/09

    @damnelantra™ ascent media skynets you!: I've been there and done that... thanks for reminding me.


    /puts down drink

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    Image of Bret Bret
    01/30/09

    In reply to 2009 Mazda MX-5 Miata: Celebrating 20 Years With A Chi-Town Party
    I really like the facelift; it now looks a little less Walrus-ey. I wonder if there is going to be a 20Ae edition, like they did to celebrate the 10th birthday?


    I sort of hope not. Mazda was getting downright Mustang-esque with the special edition Miatas for a while.


    Wait, I have an R package Miata...

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