The long version

Owners commute in it during the week, autocross it on Sunday and drive it home afterwards, because there's no value to protect and nothing to prove; nobody has ever bought a Miata to be seen. Three decades after 'Miata is always the answer' became a cliché, the ownership pattern keeps proving it — honest miles in a class where most badges sleep, and a flip rate near zero on a car whose only job is the road under the tires. It helps that the recipe never changed: about a tonne, a redline worth using, a roof that folds with one arm, and running costs a normal salary can carry. Spec Miata made it the most-raced car on earth; the street cars live the same life at lower stakes.