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I daily drive a beater NA Miata, and throughout the past year or so I keep getting harassed to sell it. In the parking lots of grocery stores, post office, hom
by pengaru 5y ago
I daily drive a beater NA Miata, and throughout the past year or so I keep getting harassed to sell it. In the parking lots of grocery stores, post office, home depot, you name it and someone has literally camped out waiting for me to return just so they can try pressure me to sell, often quite rudely too.
From my perspective it's pretty crazy, the car appears neglected with a very rough exterior... it doesn't scream "buy me, you won't regret it". People are behaving desperately.
- Hamuko 5y agoNA Miatas are becoming rarer, especially if yours is not modified to hell and back. And collector car prices have been climbing a lot recently.
- pengaru 5y agoSure, but mine is a ~350k mile piece of shit with a salvage title after someone T-boned it at low speed, and I haven't made any real attempt to repair that damage. Nobody in their right mind looks at my Miata and thinks "collector car!"
- culopatin 5y agoNo rust? In todays Miata market? 3k. Back in 2016, 3k was a clean sub 100k mi Miata
- olyjohn 5y agoSomeone wants to build an Exocet or a Miata-kart out of it. I think that's where a lot of them have gone.
- pengaru 5y agoThese are usually quite obviously parents with a newly licensed kid anxiously watching the interaction from the back seat. But yeah, occasionally it's a gearhead who wants to do something like that - it's the exception though. Those instances we end up talking shop, and that's kind of always been a thing (I've driven Miatas for over a decade, this is my third). The ~recent thing is the parents harassing me, it's like they can't find cheap first cars for their newly licensed children.
- jjav 5y agoTwo years ago you could go to craigslist and search for Miata and get a hundred cars for sale any day. Today, hard to find a reasonable one.