08/21/2026
It's 2006 and the Miata's third generation arrives the same year the PlayStation 3 launches to lines around the block, Nintendo's Wii has people waving their arms around living rooms everywhere, and Dunkin' Donuts overtakes Starbucks as America's favorite coffee stop. The NC was bigger and heavier than its predecessors, and purists had opinions.
But underneath the new shape was the same idea: even weight distribution, a chassis built to talk to the driver, and nothing there that didn't need to be. Twenty years on, plenty of NCs are still doing exactly what they were built for.
NC owners, what won you over?