Mazda MX-5 Miata (NA) for sale
1990–1997
The original pop-up headlight Miata. Cheap to buy, but clean, rust-free, unmodified cars are rarer every year, especially in the special-edition colors.
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Know the car
- A 1.6-liter four-cylinder through 1993 and a 1.8-liter from 1994.
- Five-speed manual or four-speed automatic.
- Special editions in several distinctive colors, sold in limited numbers.
What to check before you buy
- Rust in the sills and rear wheel arches.
- On the earliest cars, the crankshaft nose (the "short-nose crank").
- Soft-top condition and blocked drain holes.
Where they turn up
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- Bring a Trailer
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- classic.com
- Hemmings
- ClassicCars.com
- Cars.com
- Facebook Marketplace
How to hunt one well
- Name the gearbox. “Manual” or “automatic” in your search is enforced: a MX-5 Miata (NA) is only shown when its listing, or the site’s own gearbox filter, proves it. A listing that never says is left out rather than guessed.
- Use the generation or years you mean. GarageScout reads a chassis code or a year range as the exact model years, so neighboring generations with the same name stay out of the results.
- Set your ceilings. Add “under 60k miles” or “under $40,000” and cars over the limit are dropped, including auction listings that only state the mileage in the title.
- Say the options and colors that matter to you. Exact matches are listed first; close matches say exactly what they are missing, so you can decide whether it matters.
- Get it inspected. Whatever the listing says, a pre-purchase inspection by a specialist who knows the MX-5 Miata (NA) is the best money you will spend on it.
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