Last September I wrote about a new “magazine” for Miata enthusiasts from Moss Motors. It was called Miata Motoring and it was full of articles plus an equal quantity of pages of Miata parts you could buy from Moss. It had an Issue 1, 2022 tag right there on the cover, but there wasn’t any statement as to how many issues there were going to publish each year though.
It has been about a half a year and I haven’t gotten another one, so I assumed they just gave up. I figured with the four or five catalogs a year from them, they probably didn’t have the time for a magazine too. Wrong. The other day while working on the previous post, a twenty-five year old article from Miata Club of America’s magazine, what should get pushed through the mail slot but Issue 1, 2023 of Miata Motoring.
In that twenty-five year old article from Miata Club of America’s magazine there was a four page spread about the lead designer of the original Miata, Tom Matano. I opted not to reprint that particular article, so what did I find in this latest edition of Miata Motoring? Right! Another similar article about Mr. Matano.
This article just two pages long and was a sort of abridged version of Miata Club’s one. It even had a couple of the same photos used in that other one. There was one big difference between the two stories though, the older one had a photo of Tom as a child in a metal pedal car and in this one there is one of him at roughly the same age on a tricycle.
If you are in any way curious about the Miata Motoring magazine mentioned here, you can get the previous issue in PDF form by clicking here.