This 1999 Mazda MX-5 Miata is a first-year NB-generation roadster that has been remarkably well preserved, showing just 19,500 miles on the odometer. For a car now more than a quarter-century old, the condition genuinely tracks with the reading the interior presents exceptionally well, the undercarriage is clean, and the factory air conditioning still blows ice-cold. Finished in black over a tan leather interior with a matching tan soft top, it's the kind of low-mileage original that rarely surfaces in this generation.
Power comes from Mazda's 1.8-liter BP inline-four paired with the 5-speed manual transmission, with 4.10 gearing out back. The 1.8L in the NB retained the compact, high-revving character that had already defined the Miata platform, and the 4.10 rear keeps the engine in its sweet spot more often through the gears rather than lugging around in the upper ratios.
Underneath, the car carries four-wheel disc brakes, which became standard across the NB lineup and were a meaningful upgrade over the early NA setup. The cabin is finished in tan leather that contrasts cleanly against the black exterior, and the tan top completes a cohesive color combination that was among the more desirable specs available at the time. With the A/C fully functional, this is a roadster that remains genuinely usable in warm weather, not just reserved for cool-evening top-down drives.
1999 marked the introduction of the NB generation and the end of the pop-up headlight era for the Miata, bringing a stiffer chassis and fixed composite headlamps while preserving the lightweight, rear-drive, short-throw-manual formula that made the original platform so influential. Finding a first-year NB with this kind of mileage and this level of overall presentation is increasingly difficult as these cars age into genuine collectibility, and this example sits firmly in preservation-car territory.
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