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@Stan Galat posted:....but I'm not buying a Pecan or Cajun ("S", turbo, or "sports-chrono" or no)...
Me neither.
But the Übermenschen don't really care. They're selling a ton of units to the intended market of soccer moms and husbands of soccer moms who sleep more soundly knowing they have 500 German horsepower under the hood, but enough room in the back to take Suzie and her friends to Thursday practice.
We should probably face facts and admit that pimply-faced adolescents no longer dream of the two-seater speed machines we lusted after. We are a nearly extinct species that no longer gets invited to focus groups.
Whether or not we actually buy, most of us still surviving have moved into the tax bracket where we can afford whatever they want to charge for a GTS-4, and they'll even humor us by keeping a quaint manual gearbox on the option list. (I'm surprised they don't package that with mandatory rallye stripes.)
But we should prepare for going quietly into the night. As our numbers dwindle, what we knew as sporting machinery will disappear, too. Corporations and stockholders cannot survive on nostalgia and dreams.
The median age of a Miata owner is 62, and there are rumors the ND will be the last.
Total MX-5 sales by series:
If we want to continue to drive in the past, I think we'll be doing that increasingly in plastic cars with lawn mower engines, aging clowns that we are.
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