Miata Mailing List: February 1998, Message #143
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From: 	Petra van den Berge <petra@miata.net>

Subject: Re: Australian 99 MX-5 (longish) (NMC now)

Date: 	Mon, 2 Feb 1998 08:19:01 +0000



>matt,

>don't be too supprised.....WE ALWAYS

>know more than the salespeople do.   :>)



We went to a dealership (October last year), and spoke with the owner about

the Miata and the MX-5.

The dealer told us how he visited the US plant, where the Miatas were built.



I explained him that Miatae are built in either Hofu, or Hiroshima.

He got a little angry, and told me that he had seen it with his own eyes.

Miatae coming off the production line. In the US.



I of course still didn't want to believe him. He said he had been to Hofu

and Hiroshima too, had seen the MX-5's there too, _BUT_ALSO_IN_THE_US_ . He

explained that the European MX-5's are built in Japan, but the American

Miatae are built in the US.



Snakebite was waiting outside, top-down of course, and I asked him to walk

with me to Snakebite. She's a US Miata (from Seattle) and I wanted to show

him the "made in Japan" decal.



He didn't want to go outside.



Oh well.



:)



Petra

and Snakebite, who was laughing and laughing and sticking her tongue out