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1990 Mazda MX-5 Miata [NA] Comments about this vehicle| Author | Message |
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◊ 2006-11-17 00:58 |
No jessica Fletcher in this episode ..Keith Michell takes the lead ...and drives this car.!\ From episode 7.03 ![[Image: mswseeyoucourt14ol9.1845.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is361/mswseeyoucourt14ol9.1845.jpg) ![[Image: mswseeyoucourt27ua3.6914.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is292/mswseeyoucourt27ua3.6914.jpg) ![[Image: mswseeyoucourt25om1.1566.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/0is361/mswseeyoucourt25om1.1566.jpg) ![[Image: miata.jpg]](http://pics.imcdb.org/4884/miata.jpg) -- Last edit: 2012-04-01 09:32:40 (dragonboy) |
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◊ 2006-11-28 21:38 |
1989-1998 Mazda MX-5 Miata(at home Eunos Roadster) |
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◊ 2007-11-18 00:06 |
Seems like a real plate.There was no '89 model. It came out in the summer of 1989 as a '90 model. |
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◊ 2023-04-30 10:46 |
This exact same vehicle also appears without the front license plate -- but with the same 2NBA750 license plate on the rear -- in episode 6.08 of Murder She Wrote, which was Michell's second appearance in the program. (He first appeared without the Miata in episode 5.02 the previous year.) The Miata is first seen inside a nondescript parking garage, and moments later is shown exiting the garage of 1000 Chestnut Street Apartments onto San Francisco's Hyde Street in the direction of the Hyde Street Pier, before turning right onto Bay Street. We next see it turning right from Columbus Avenue onto Francisco Street and then after a brief closeup in front of a blue screen, we see a slightly earlier shot of the rearview mirror as it drives down Columbus Avenue passing Jones Street, which would have happened right before it got to Francisco Street. Next we get another blue screen closeup of Michell before seeing the Miata turning onto Francisco once more (but shot from the opposite direction), followed by a left turn onto Jones Street. Then finally there's another blue screen closeup (with the bay visible in the background, so it was shot in the wrong place, likely on Hyde Street) before this scene ends. The Miata later reappears once more, about six minutes later into the episode, in an establishing shot which tracks it driving back up Hyde Street and reentering the parking garage beneath 1000 Chestnut. For a TV show, it's a surprisingly geographically-consistent journey, with the only real defects in the route being a slight chronological reshuffling around Columbus Avenue and the blue-screened backgrounds on the driver closeups not matching up with the rest of the journey. And I'd also note that the whole thing was quite likely a paid product placement on the part of Mazda, as the episode first aired on November 19th, 1989, just five months after the Miata launched in the US market in May 1989. That would put the shooting date quite close to -- or possibly even before -- the retail launch in the North American market (which per Wikipedia, was also the first market to launch globally.) |
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◊ 2023-04-30 10:54 |
One more note, it also appears in episode 7.18 as seen here: /v515132.html |
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◊ 2023-05-01 04:19 |
Mazda embossed into front fascia below driver's side headlamp was '90 only? |
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◊ 2023-05-01 04:27 |
1991 too https://www.thebarnmiami.com/vehicles/200/1991-mazda-miata 1992 as well ? https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1992-mazda-mx-5-miata-12/ i honestly thought they had the flame logo that year.. or mid-year thing ? looks like 1993 has the flame logo but i'm still unsure if it was a mid-1992 thing or if all 1992 had Mazda too ..  -- Last edit: 2023-05-01 04:31:27 |
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◊ 2023-05-01 04:36 |
Thanks. |
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◊ 2023-05-01 07:58 |
1991 and 1992 was the year most Mazdas (in Europe) had the earlier typhoon (or as I like to call it, UNESCO World Heritage) logo, although in North America it was only on the 929. |
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