Miata Mailing List: August 1999, Message #475

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Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill.  Mazda's discontinued a
plastic spoiler (it was discontinued here a couple of years ago).  For all
but a small handful of cars (47 of them in 1997, for example), it's an
accessory.  Mazda doesn't want to keep such a part in stock and raise
warehousing costs.  Fair enough - I don't imagine the Rs get in enough
accidents to justify the part.  Think of the OEM CD player for the 1990-93
cars - it's gone too.  Even the VW bug had some accessories that became
impossible to get later, I'm sure.  It's not as if Mazda's stopped
producing engines.

Mazda is a business.  They've made a decision to drop a part, and they're
perfectly within their rights to do so.  Moss Motors is lurking around,
hoping to pick up the equivalent of their MG business for the Miata - they
want to be the folks you go to when you need a new Miata spoiler.  So let them.

Keith