- So you have like shows where there's Naruto.
You got Naruto, you got Sasuke.
And then you got like Rock lee.
All right.
Like you like him, but he doesn't get the limelight.
He so desperately wants and or deserves.
Okay. And at the end of the day, the show is called Naruto,
not Rock lee, there's a car that's like that.
Okay. Even though it's not the main character
you just wish it got a little bit more love.
Like a little bit more attention.
I'm Alex, AlexFi to find in Instagram.
And today we're gonna be talking about a car
that is one part happy, one part, very angry.
Okay. A car that just left puberty
and is really just trying to find its stride
and its own style because it's, it's not a face.
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A car that when you see it in the rear view mirror
on the track, you unfortunately know it'll probably get
into the passing lane once you get through the kink.
All right.
A car that just like there are 33
or the nine, nine, six,
people just don't seem to love them as much as they should.
Even though they should love them
because they're a pretty done okay cars.
Ladies and gentlemen today,
we'll be talking about you wanting to own an NC Miata.
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And if you're just jumping into a video of ours,
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hello (buzzer)
All right. If you're on the fence own one
and I'm looking for Aftermarket wheels, tires
and suspension, you know, for your car.
You're gonna wanna check us out
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could possibly imagine.
It's kinda like what we do.
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wheels or rims.
Apparently this is a very big deal.
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Mostly on our TikTok.
I'm trying, we're trying to teach wheels,
but you know maybe it is rims.
Maybe the colloquial has stuck around for way too long.
We do allow you to do wheel
and tire packages that actually fit your car.
May have a little bit of a stretch
because when you go to Sears,
I got my wheels put on at Sears
when I was 16 and they judge the living shit out of me,
for putting two 15 on a nine wide.
Okay.
The lady and the guy criticized me
they told me it was stupid.
One guy straight up told me I was gonna die.
Okay. And we, we don't, we don't judge you,
like Sears judges you, okay.
With wheel and tire packages.
Going into the NC Miata.
There's no denying it's happiness.
It was like the third generation
of the MX-5 that was manufactured from 2005 to 2015.
And it won for some pretty good awards.
It won car of the year
it won, the Japan award for car
that made some of the top 10 best lists at the time.
And it was the first Gen MX with a retractable hard top.
Which was a pretty big deal.
No longer were the needs of sour sun glass
hard top of your NARMB for the same price
your Mazda was actually worth.
I'm not kidding.
It blows my mind that hard tops are like $1,200
but then you can get a Miata for $1,200 now
not a good Miata, but a Miata for $1,200.
It don't make sense.
But the design of the NC Miata was more
than just a retractable hard top and a smiling face.
It was what revived the Miata brand back
into the 21st century and actually paved the way
for another decade of success with the Mazda brand
because Mazda was having a little bit of a tough time
trying to get out of the 90s.
Now Moray Callum, a middle-aged man
who started his career at Chrysler,
would jump over to Mazda on September 7th, 2001
where he was actually promoted
into the position of lead Mazda, worldwide design.
Which was a pretty big title
for a huge task.
Okay. I mean, you had to revitalize the entire Mazda range.
And the existing Mazda range was kind of,
sort of a little bit,
not trying to be mean, boring
and a little bit of unsuspecting
and didn't really breathe the old zoom zoom mentality
that Mazda sorely needed.
So Moray would take a clean recipe of black interiors
and sporty instruments (hiphop music)
with edgy exterior shapes to make the new Mazda.
And it was supposed to be a nice, emotional look.
It would brag about the emotion
and sharp edges together with slopes and curves.
No Coca-Cola reference here.
Kia stinger.
Ladies and gentlemen
this was just a proper new school design.
And when he completed the management of the redesigned MX-5,
it sealed the deal that Moray had done it
and recaptured what Mazda needed to succeed
for another 10 years.
The NC1 from 2005 to 2008
would have some interesting features
that may not have age, the best in current day and age
but it's really not that bad.
It's got some bulging fenders,
a two-liter 170 horsepower motor, it's actually 164,
but we're gonna round up for the sake that we like Mazda.
Outdoor manual transmission, a limited slip differential
and a front end smile that could kill.
Also had some Chrome.
Didn't really like the Chrome.
It had a little bit of Chrome
just look at it, I mean, look, I'll happy it is.
Even when it's angry, it's happy
and maybe he just didn't have the headlights, you know
the flip of headlights at the NA,
but it was still good.
And unfortunately the headlight pop-up days are dead.
And we need to get over it and move past it.
1992, 3000 GT VR-4 (pop)
best pop-up headlights ever. (chimes)
The pre face look and NC sold fairly well.
And even with the multitude of trim options,
most people would snag a pretty basic manual soft top
and avoid the weight that was added
with the retractable hard top,
which had like a 12.1 second, retractable hard top thing.
That's what you brag about
when you have a retractable hard top
is how fast it can be retracted 12 seconds, baby.
That's about the same time as a quarter mile.
And they got a poof of makeup with some styling changed
into 2008 and 2009.
So you had some larger fog lights.
And you had like a larger smiley boy in the front.
Okay. It was awesome.
You had new instrument panels
and an angry interior that said,
"No, mom, I'm not going to Christmas dinner tonight
"because your family gives me a headache
"and I no longer see the need to attend something
"that I don't find value in.
"And most of the time, people
"like just sleep the entire time after they eat anyway.
"If anything, I'm stopping for coffee
"then I'm going back home to play video games."
That is what the second trim
of the NC kind of was from 2005 to 2008.
It redesigned itself, but from 2008 and onward
it really started to get its own groove,
its own momentum back underneath it.
And even though it tried to really get away
from the happy, happy, happy
look at it,
it's like, it was always just like,
it was always smiling.
It was just happy.
And as the years went by Mazda would get more trim
and more special additions versions of itself
that would make any grown man cry.
Because the way that Mazda does things
is it's very very easy to introduce special,
limited edition trims on different platforms
across the world.
Like any nation can pretty much do it.
So you have the 25th anniversary edition,
you had the Jota MX-5 GT,
you had the BVR Mazda MX-5,
you had the GT-270, you had the Curl,
You had the Cention,
you had the Venture edition.
You had the Breathe special edition,
the Black Tune special edition.
I don't even know how many fingers I'm holding up anymore.
Sport Black.
You had the special edition again.
You had the Mat, you had the Miyako
and you've probably had like two dozen other prototypes.
Now some of them were actually producing.
Some of them were not,
but most of them were special edition trims.
And while the MX-5 was initially pretty popular
not many find them as lovely as the NA
or NB Miatas anymore.
Fact, okay.
TikTok, for some reason only likes NA Miatas.
You want a Miata, you get the oldest one.
You don't even think about the NC.
Well, I'm not really entirely sure
why people think like that, because you know...
We're not here to talk about the history of the car,
We're here to talk about you wanting to own
one of these bad boys. (hiphop music)
One of these four by four looking Boujee
and leisure suit, where it's still kinda too slow
for its own good kind of cars.
That is the Mazda, NC MX-5.
So you want an NC Miata.
We'll set down your favorite (hiphop music)
pop-up headlights song from my boy James,
and grab your favorite can of plastic dip
because we're gonna sit here
and we're going to talk about
what it's like to actually own, one of these things.
The NC Miata is good for quite a few reasons.
Number one reason, it's a Miata, okay?
It's the foundational proper budget sports car
that can do just about everything
and almost anyone that's critiqued it,
has loved the car.
It's near 170 horse powers, which is a good jump
from the 142 from the predecessor.
The extra gear is awesome for highway driving
without losing its spanker on the track.
And the one thing that has seemed
to plaque these cars really, especially
in recent times is just the earlier generation looks, okay.
The MX-5, the NC version does look a little interesting.
The ride height and its overall bubbly look gives
it more of like an SUV appearance
than a sports car appearance.
But to be honest for people like you and people like me
that can be fixed incredibly easy
because you just did the wheels, the tires
and the suspension from feminentindustries.com,
you slam it on the ground.
And you're good to go.
The biggest complaint that ever came to this platform
was that it has changed from the NB of lacking function
to having almost too much function.
The NC had extra trunk space.
It had wider seats
because apparently people enjoyed the fact
that you couldn't fit in NB's seats.
Some additional electronic tech and nannies
and some more easy functions
that made people feel like they weren't getting
the same car as an NB Miata.
It almost took out the soul, A.K.A uncomfortableness
and replaced it with some comfortableness
so that you could actually go across the country in it.
The NC shared components from the RX-8.
Which made some people feel like it lost the heart
of the Miata, but a lot of it is exaggerated.
The NC Miata is one hell of a platform for its own reasons.
And it does more of being a proper car
than the predecessors really ever did.
Now don't get me wrong, I love NA and NB Miatas
'cause I've owned a million of them
but they weren't exactly things you could do.
You can do it with everything.
Okay. The NA and NB Miata
like they're just a fun car,
but they're not like, they're not as versatile
as a,
as an NC,
you know.
Take it from the guy that we put a 100 shot
in the nitrous in the back and slapped it onto the gas pedal
so that anytime you're over 90% throttle,
it just opened up.
Or the fact that we ran her
into a tree drifted around backwards in Mexico.
Took off the sun visors
because I couldn't fit without actually seeing the road.
Nevermind. We're not going into that.
And I was wanting to talk about the fact
that the older generations had a lack of leg space.
I mean, when I say that, I mean it was nonexistent.
The dash was a source of storage for any road trip
and the lack of gearing made highway driving feel
like you were going to blow up.
If you have an NA, you know what I'm talking about.
If you have an NB, it's a little bit better
but you still don't know what am talking about.
Put that bad boy in fifth gear
and try going 74 on the highway.
The NC Miata fixes a lot of
that for just a hair more weight
and a little softer overall ride.
When you take on the, like the face of a sports car, I mean.
And while you can throw on volks and (indistinct)
and ground lights in the car,
really anything is possible for this car to look good.
The softer styling goes well
with a sharper spoke design wheel
like the RR series lineup from (indistinct)
or even Motegi's.
One thing I would definitely recommend though
is gonna be coil overs if you pick up an NC Miata.
The car especially needs the coil overs
because it does, it is raised pretty dang tall.
Or you can get, obtain BC silvers
anyone just get it on the ground.
The right head issue is a bit much.
And once it's lowered, it really does start
to look a lot better and everything will start to blend.
I mean, it'll especially blend in once you are around
NA and NB Miatas
because you can actually see the difference in height.
Keep the tire profile as low as possible,
as well to maintain the height of the car.
Pair that with a front lip side skirts
and a minimal reeler fuser
and it will really pull the entire car together.
The biggest mistake people often make
with these cars is making them look a little bit,
two, four by four. (hiphop music)
And they do that by not fixing up the suspension.
And they also do that
with keeping a 45 series sidewall tire on their wheel.
You wanna drop that down to a 40 or even a 35
or they add over fenders where the car doesn't need it.
It already has it.
The car really doesn't need anything more on the body.
It needs to get closer to the ground.
Get rid of the amber side markers,
clean up the Crump,
throw some coning hyper grant,
federal five, nine, five and 10 coil overs on it.
You've got yourself a newer Miata,
under 10 K, it'll perform damn well for what you need
and your copilot won't have to remove their likes
to get in the car.
The car did properly well and there's nothing really major
that would ever break up the NC platform
before it really jumped into being angry in the ND platform.
It's a banger value car.
It's just not as popular as the rest.
But what are your thoughts on the NC Miata?
Okay. You can respect all Miatas
or you can not respect all miatas,
let us know below.
And if you really like Mark wheels, tires and suspension,
sure to hit us up over fitmentindustries.com.
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We'll see you later.
Peace.
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