Mazda MX-5 Miata number 900,000 rolled of the assembly line sometime yesterday, a soft-top, six-speed manual-equipped Copper Red MX-5, and destined for Germany. It took 21 years and 10 months to get to that figure, so after some not so quick math I figure that the one millionth car will be made less than 2-1/2 years from now on July 13, 2013.
The photo accompanying the Autoblog article has this caption: 20th Anniversary Mazda MX-5 Miata special edition ? Click above for high-res image gallery. I don’t remember any 20th Anniversary Edition. So I clicked on the link and was taken to a post from March 3, 2010 about the car at the Geneva Motor Show. This was a photo of the European 20th Anniversary model. There were also a Japanese and a British version of the 20th Anniversary car, but alas, no US version. You would have thought we would have gotten one too, after all, according to the 900,000th car press release, the US received nearly 45 percent of these little cars.
In that gallery are a couple of photos that interest me, one showing the outside badge proclaiming “20th Anniversary” and other was of the sill plates with “20th Anniversary” above “0000/2000.” The Emperor is a 2003 model, I wonder how much it would cost to have a couple 13th Anniversary badges made up? Of course the number plate would read 1 of 1.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 937