Miata Mailing List: February 1994, Message #170
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   From: boyle@cactus.org (Craig Boyle)
Subject: Re: SAT Miata Sightings
   Date: Fri, 11 Feb 1994 00:44:58 -0500

> 
> Jack & Anne just returned from a week's vacation in San Antonio (wish we'd
> had Kansei with us - the top would have stayed down the whole week).
> Naturally, we were somewhat observant of MX-5s in the area.
>  
> In fact, after a short time, we really started looking - there aren't many
> in the SAT area, for some reason or another.  SAT has a population right at
> a million, and yet, in five full days spent in and around the city, we saw
> only two Miatas on the street, one on a used car dealer's lot, and two for
> sale in the paper.  Admittedly, we didn't deliberately set out to
> investigate every used car lot in town, nor did we check the local Mazda
> dealership (where I would assume there would be at least a couple new ones
> available).  Still, one hour virtually anywhere in the DC area will provide
> one with more Miata sightings than nearly a week in SAT did.  The two days
> in Midland resulted in even fewer (zero, to be precise) Miata sightings.
> Don't central and western Texans like two seat sports cars?

You should have cruised 70 miles up I35 to Austin. Every other car is
a Miata here, well almost. San Antonio's demographics and industry are
very different to say Austin's hi-tech/Government/Academic population.
There is no Miata chapter in SAT, but Austin (half SAT's size), Dallas
and Houston aer all active.

Go west of I35, towards Midland as you say, and you won't ever see a 
Miata, and rarely a Japanese car, you are in the land of the pickup and the V8.

A problem with owning a Miata in Texas is the very large number of full
size pickup trucks, they are hard to see around, sometimes don't see me
and every now and then run into the back of my Miata.


Craig