Miata celebrates 20 year anniversary

This year’s model marks the 20th anniversary of the car that brought back a fascination of driving a roadster with the top down, which means it might be a good time to look into buying a used Mazda Miata.

At this year’s Chicago Auto Show, Mazda showed off its 2009 MX-5 “Mazda” roadster along with cars from the previous 20 years. Although the 2009 model is not a radical transformation from last year’s edition, it did receive a facelift which harkens back to the original car – an immediate success when it hit American roads in 1989.

The success of the Miata has not been lost on the people who keep some of the most important records in the world. According to Mazda, Guinness World Records certified the car as the world’s most popular production two-seat open-top sports car in 2000.

It doesn’t appear that that record will be broken anytime soon as the company says the Miata has sold 857,201 units through last December.

MSN autos says that one of the reasons why the car has remained so well-liked is that it has stayed true to its initial form throughout two decades.

“The popularity of the Miata is largely due to the fact that Mazda has never changed the underlying idea behind the MX-5 – it’s still a lightweight, sporty, fun-to-drive sports car,” writes the site.

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