“It didn’t really belong anywhere,” he recalls, “since it wasn’t legal in any of the classes for Miatas, and it wasn’t extreme enough to compete with the really gnarly stuff. Pasterjak remembers, that rendered it an oddball in the autocross and secondhand enthusiast market. The Mazdaspeed’s run ended almost as soon as it started.Īs our own J.G. of torque at the rear wheels on the stock turbo.” “It’s good for 189.9 horsepower and 178 lb.-ft. And then 2006 brought the all-new NC-chassis Miata to market, with no turbocharged option available. market during the 2004 model year, however, Mazda only managed to build 1428 examples for the following year due to a fire at the factory. Thanks to the model’s 178 horsepower, Road & Track declared it “a significantly more powerful Miata that rekindles the excitement of 1989.” Car and Driver heaped praise as well: “At the price, this car’s almost an unbeatable deal, but be aware that production is limited to just 4000 a year.”Īfter building those 4000 cars for the U.S. In fact, the Mazdaspeed seemed like it would be a hit. What went wrong? Nothing, at least at first. That’s a pittance compared to production numbers for other cars, as Mazda proved when it built its millionth Miata in 2016. Bake at the factory for two model years, then cease cooking after only 5428 units. The recipe was simple: Grab a loaded NB-chassis Miata and then add a turbo kit, six-speed transmission, revised chassis tuning, and $827 to the MSRP. What, exactly, is a Mazdaspeed Miata? Put simply, it’s the only factory-turbocharged Miata ever offered. Is it the car that Mazda should have delivered from the get-go, or is it still not quite fast enough to make that case? The two-year-only Mazdaspeed Miata lives in a weird state of limbo–neither fish nor fowl, neither here nor there.
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