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There was a glaring omission in your article on roadsters: the Miata. Introduced in 1989, it led the resurgence of the roadster. The Japanese, with the aid of a brilliant group of American designers, gave us back a true European-style sports car, the Miata, with one important extra: dependability. JEFF JURY, Founder Delaware Valley Miata Club Cherry Hill, New Jersey...
...jolt of renewed self-esteem and left foreign manufacturers struggling in the dust. Even looking backward, it is not clear why. Maybe the baby boomers, grown thick in the waist, were bored with being sensible. Without any question--the brief dawn a few years ago of the tiny, puppyish Miata sports convertible aside--cars had grown tedious and indistinguishable. A Lexus or a BMW or a Mercedes said, "I've got mine, and I'm rich." A Volkswagen Golf or Ford Escort said nothing whatsoever. Did we need talking cars? Apparently: a Jeep with a mountain bike or kayak rack...
Despite this tremendous workload, the expert in micreconomic theory finds time to enjoy life's smaller pleasures, like the red Mazda Miata convertible that he bought while he was senior tutor of Dunster House, a post he held from 1983 until...
While a shiny sports car may be Wolcowitz's favorite toy, the diversion hasn't kept him out of trouble. Perhaps one of Wolcowitz's most interesting experiences with his Miata came several years ago when he had to pick up his mother at Logan Airport...
Regional individuality has vanished, replaced by a homogenized, spaceless, timeless world where, in the words of the Mazda Miata commercial, "Blue jeans and white T-shirts were...