actual miata coupe

[Thighs]

on my crusade through the internets this fine afternnon, i stumbled upon this pic:

http://www.clubmiatamonteregie.ca/MiataCoupe2_2004.gif

why do we not have these?

[Halfwit]

i rly like it

[aaronfelipe]

Nice!

[Thighs]

i rly d0 to0o.

[Silver69ss]

Nice ride.

[MistaCee]

Looks like a ferrari in the back

[Thighs]

i wish america had got some of em... i say we all move to either europe or japan. or canada.

[rednblack]

very nice lookin, I'd love to drive a Mazdaspeed version.

[dkjohnson04]

i would love to have one of those! that red looks good on it too!!

[JDMJAYDC2]

they should know the us market wants these cars since every miata i have seen has a hardtop

[Thighs]

^^ if i had the money id get a hardtop... they look so much cleaner.

[CUTEB0Y]

http://www.aidminds.com/Photos/911_turbo-porche.jpg

looks a lot like the porche turbo to me.

[Thighs]

^ not so much...

[Ricer]

yea i saw that car at SEMA a few years ago... looks even more badass in person.. i'll see if i can find a few pictures i took of it

[RUFFIAN]

It is another example of the JDM market Heads not being in touch with what the American market wants.

[teh_mugen18]

WOW.

[JDMJAYDC2]

my thoughts exactly i mean hopefully they would have seen this by now by all the engine, clip, lights all teh jdm stuff ppl buy that we want the cool stuff too dammit. if i was into 2 seater cars id be all on this this car is nice especially on those volks

[87 Turbo II]

Mazdaspeed MX-5 Coupe............. make one Mazda! We're waiting.........

[Thighs]

the new mx5 just doesnt do it for me... it lost all the originals appeal.

[OneSlow5pt0]

the new mx5 just doesnt do it for me... it lost all the originals appeal.

not really they just made it better.........u can even still get one with no P/S and no power anything

[CHADbee]

thats one sexy, manly, non gay miata!

[Thighs]

not really they just made it better.........u can even still get one with no P/S and no power anything

its still just not the same for some reason...

[Doppelgänger]

For those of you who don't know why Mazda did not bring them to the US....

When the NB coupe was conceived, the NB was already nearing the end of it's production run. The coupe was sold in 04 and 05 in Japan only, and Mazda knew long before that the NB production would end in 05.

So, the decision came down to cost of tooling. A full set of (extremely expensive) normal production high yield body dies, as used by the normal production model to produce hundreds of thousands of body panels, would not be able to pay off in the limited time left for the NB. The alternative was a set of much less expensive low yield body dies, that can only be used to make a few thousand body panels before they're worn out. Mazda chose to use these, and thus only had the production capacity to make a few thousand NB coupes at most.

Further, since the coupe body would have required a full certification test program to be sold in the US at a cost of a few million dollars, Mazda couldn't justify the expense of that test program for the few hundred cars that could be sold - that alone would have added a couple of thousand dollars to the cost of a coupe. It would have priced itself out of the market.

There was NEVER a Mazdaspeed version of the coupe.
The coupes came out in 2004 and 2005....welcome back.
Production was limited to small numbers.

[OneSlow5pt0]

good looking car....but least we have hardtop miata now.......

[Complication]

Very nice. That is a Miata that I'd gladly drive home.

[bandydesign]

That is unbelievable, I love it!

But, I want one of these:

[Logan]

We just want what we dont have

[81911SC]

I love it.