Objectively speaking, the automatic also costs a bit of performance: half a second to 60 mph and about the same in the quarter-mile.
(The automatic upcharge on the base Sport model is $1480, while on the Club it’s only $730.) Choosing a GT moves the base price up to $30,885 and the automatic adds another $1205. It also adds blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, lane-departure warning, and adaptive lights with automated high-beam control. The Grand Touring skips those, instead including heated seats, leather upholstery, automatic climate control, rain-sensing wipers, and navigation.
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We tested the manual Miata in Club spec, which brings performance-enhancing hardware like a shock-tower brace, a limited-slip differential, and a sportier suspension tune. Suitably, our automatic-transmission test car arrived in the priciest, plushest of MX-5 trim levels, the Grand Touring. But clearly we couldn’t wait 16 years to get around to testing the automatic when about half the cars have it. This year’s new, lighter, tighter, and righter Miata makes a strong argument for the enjoyment and involvement of the stick shift, for getting all the way into the game with both feet and both hands. By 2011, Mazda was reporting that manual transmissions still dominated, but more than a third of softtop Miatas (37 percent) and more than half of the retractable-hardtop cars (59 percent) were sold without a clutch pedal. That was when a new six-speed and paddle-shifter combination arrived and we found it was, well, not so horribly bad.
We didn’t even bother track-testing an automatic Miata until 2006. Hearing that someone had an automatic Miata made us think, “Go buy a Corolla and embrace your dull, gray inner drone, already.” That thing was such a drag that putting one in a Miata seemed pointless. A lot more of them today than was the case for the first-generation car in the 1990s, certainly, when the four-speed slushbox accounted for probably less than 10 percent of Miata sales. Which is a longer way to say that some Miata buyers order an automatic transmission.
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