WHAT WE LIKE: The new Mazda Miata is all ate up with charisma, such that only the most dedicated cynic would be immune to its charms. We don?t drive this little car so much as slip into it like silk pajamas. It?s small in the way 1960s roadsters were small, seemingly all four corners reachable by extended arms from the well-appointed cockpit. Thus, the human-machine bond is strong when we hit the road, the car slaloming from corner to apex as if an extension of the limbs, the steering and gearbox sublime in their organically direct operation. And the speed feels real even when it?s not. More than one driver noted that this car makes legal limits fun, no small feat these days. The softtop is so easy to drop from behind the wheel that you?ll do it on a whim even for a five-minute drive, and we?re currently averaging a very thrifty 32 mpg. It?s a car for youth, meaning both the young and those who want to be young again. READ MORE ??
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