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Old 08-16-2021, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC View Post
If people want it badly enough and not willing to wait they will get it.
It made its first debut at the February 1989 Chicago Auto Show where it was an immediate success. It drew thousands of onlookers eager to pay the $13,800 sticker price. Powering the MX-5 Miata was a four-cylinder dual-overhead-cam engine offering 116 horsepower.

I was at a local bar in Orlando in 89 listening to a woman telling how Her new Miata would be in tomorrow for only 25 thousand buckeroos..
Worked in car business for a while for a guy that was buying new corvettes and reselling them for a couple of grand over sticker late 70’s early 80’s..