Minottek is the work of Ryan Conforti, an NA Miata owner who was inspired to design a gated manual for his own car after experiencing a shifter with a gate for the first time. As he tells Road ...

Hirai insisted the new convertible have an easy-to-use cloth top that could be dropped without leaving the driver’s seat. Mazda unveiled the fruit of these efforts, the NA Miata, in 1989.

Mazda's lightweight, rear-wheel-drive, two-seat roadster can accelerate quickly ... The fourth-generation Miata remains true to Mazda's original formula of a lightweight, rear-wheel-drive roadster.