Poll Results: What Kind of Miata(s) Do You Own?
We've just completed another poll on Miata.org asking visitors what kinds of Miata(s, because you can't have just one can you?) they own.
The primary results probably won't be surprising to anyone who follows the world of Miatas carefully, so here we go:
| NA | NB | NC | Total |
| 142 | 81 | 40 | 254 |
| 55.9% | 31.9% | 15.7% |
As you can plainly see, there are more owners of NA's than NB's, and more NB's than NC's. I also decided to see how the ratio of owners on this site stacks up against the actual export numbers published by Mazda, so here's the comparison:
| NA | NB | NC | |
| 361,321 | 208,307 | 69,003 | 638,631 |
| 56.6% | 32.6% | 10.8% | |
| NA | NB | NC | Total |
| 142 | 81 | 40 | 254 |
| 55.9% | 31.9% | 15.7% |
Probably the most shocking thing to me is that our respondents matched up so closely to the actual production and export numbers.
One thing to note is the discrepancy between the NC numbers. At first, I thought I had discovered some profound truth about the Miata community, but on closer inspection I realized the numbers I have for the NC stopped in 2006, whereas people who responded to the poll could have purchased their NC as late as 2009, so factoring in an additional 3 years of production would probably bring them closer together.
I hope you find this as interesting as I do. Any other observations I missed?