This Could Be Your Last Chance To Buy A Near-Perfect, Standard, Low-Mileage Mk1 Mazda MX-5

A Mazda MX-5 has cropped up for sale with less than 10,000 miles, a perfect service and maintenance history and practically mint condition bodywork, but would you be willing to pay the £12,000 price tag?
This Could Be Your Last Chance To Buy A Near-Perfect, Standard, Low-Mileage Mk1 Mazda MX-5

There are two ways you can look at this car. The first is ‘ohmigod it’s an immaculate low-mileage NA MX-5 and I will do literally anything to have it in my life,’ and the second is ‘£12,000?!’ For us it’s both…

Either way, what we have here is rarer than an immaculate, manual twin-turbo Supra driven down your local high street by a bikini-clad Kate Upton. It’s an NA MX-5 that has neither clocked up a high mileage nor been abused. In fact, it hasn’t done much of anything; it’s covered just 9650 miles from its registration in 1996.

This Could Be Your Last Chance To Buy A Near-Perfect, Standard, Low-Mileage Mk1 Mazda MX-5

It was owned by a husband and wife, and they are the only two owners on its history. The car was originally ordered with steelies but the order was cancelled, and when it came to the replacement buyer picking up the slack, part of the deal was to add Mazda alloys and a wind deflector.

It’s an absolutely basic version, so it’s the fizzy 1.6 with manual windows, unassisted steering and, err, a heater. Younger readers may need to Google the strange ‘cassette player’ thingy, but it’s got one, and of course there’s the alloy wheel upgrade.

This Could Be Your Last Chance To Buy A Near-Perfect, Standard, Low-Mileage Mk1 Mazda MX-5

It’s been garaged its entire life, as you can see pretty clearly from the condition. Apart from some slight ageing on the cylinder head and what looks to us like some fading/pinking of the rear bumper it’s pretty damned perfect. Forget about rust – there isn’t even any dirt in the crevices where it usually collects.

Then there’s the interior, which looks almost like it’s never been sat in. Simple cloth upholstery is complemented by the standard, basic steering wheel and stubby gear lever. The suspension is also the factory setup, as you’ve already guessed by the fact that it’s riding somewhere up near a 747’s trans-Atlantic cruising altitude.

This Could Be Your Last Chance To Buy A Near-Perfect, Standard, Low-Mileage Mk1 Mazda MX-5

The Dunlop tyres in the pictures have been swapped for brand new Toyos, there are 19 MOT certificates to prove the mileage, six service stamps and even the original bill of sale. It has three keys, a tonneau cover and the roof, bar the usual rear three-quarter creases, is in near-perfect condition.

Finally, the number plate, although age-accurate, is a personalised item that comes with the car. MXV? MX-5? Geddit? Of course you do. You’re chortling so hard that you’ve just slipped a disc. So, CTzens, would you pay £11,995 for what must be one of the best NA MX-5s left anywhere in the world?

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Comments

Anonymous

Alex, we are looking at you. Phil needs a sibling.

10/24/2017 - 15:30 |
8 | 0
Bring a Caterham To MARS

There are two ways you can look at this car. The first is ‘ohmigod it’s an immaculate low-mileage NA MX-5 and I will do literally anything to have it in my life,’ and the second is ‘£12,000?!’ For us it’s both…

Even though I go by the former for literally every MX-5 I see for sale, this time it’ll be the latter.
Because there are cars in which an original condition holds some value, but the MX-5 isn’t one.
In fact, even if I got that gifted, first things first I’d probably start modding it, if not only for a bit more low, new wheels, a roll bar and struts and braces.

You could however trust me to keep the c a s s e t t e p l a y e r

10/24/2017 - 15:55 |
18 | 2

I dont think it would be stock for me, i would of turn it into a racecar-travel type of car

10/24/2017 - 16:12 |
8 | 2

That’s why they get more expensive: people just don’t stop modifying them. I bet that in five years, a stock, normal Miata NA will be as rare as a stock 240SX/180SX.

10/25/2017 - 00:06 |
4 | 0
Windscape 🇺🇸

I’m wet

10/24/2017 - 16:18 |
2 | 0

Need some paper towels?

10/24/2017 - 18:41 |
2 | 0
Dave 12

Yeah man of course! 12k is nothing when people on the dole are talking pcp deals on brand new csrs.

10/24/2017 - 16:24 |
2 | 0
Nerdy moustache

Incoming five dollar memes.

10/24/2017 - 16:36 |
2 | 0
TheDriver 1

Still rusty…

10/24/2017 - 16:44 |
2 | 0
Kyle Ashdown

[unpopular opinion] Never. Would rather buy an NB MazdaSpeed MX-5 in decent condition for that money

10/24/2017 - 17:34 |
52 | 0

Sad that common sense like this is an unpopular opinion 😂 I’m not about to spend £12000 on a 1.6 NA Miata

10/24/2017 - 19:54 |
12 | 0

Am I allowed to be annoyed by how your unpopular opinion got 9 up votes and my identical opinion got downvoted?

10/24/2017 - 21:46 |
12 | 0

Same!!

10/25/2017 - 01:13 |
6 | 0

Same opinion. Makes more sense

10/25/2017 - 01:44 |
6 | 0

Can’t buy a mazdaspeed Mx5 in the ion

10/25/2017 - 15:35 |
0 | 0
Anonymous

So he is selling a 21 year old that was mass produced for the same money it was sold 21 years ago brand new ? Why would anyone buy it ?

10/24/2017 - 18:34 |
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Olivier (CT's grammar commie)

Of course it’s expensive now when stock, it’s becoming like the 240SX/180SX.

10/24/2017 - 19:54 |
6 | 0