Where a Miata spent its life matters more than almost anything on the listing. With NA and NB cars especially, geography sets the ceiling on value before you read a single spec.
Why location dominates: rust in the frame rails and rear subframe mounts is the number-one structural killer of NA/NB Miatas, and road salt is what feeds it. A rust-belt car fights corrosion its whole life; a sun-belt car mostly does not
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