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If there’s a car that can make you fall in love with all cars, the humble Mazda MX-5 is probably it. Let’s drive.

- Paulo Rafael Subido

What more can be said about the Mazda MX-5? We’ve written so many pieces about it already. There’s the 2014 Mod Rides article about my very own first-gen Miata; the cover story that we shot in Barcelona for the global reveal of the fourth-generation model in 2015; the all-generation feature in 2016 written by Jason dela Cruz; Drei Laurel’s review of the RF variant on our YouTube channel; and my long-overdue love letter to my beloved roadster published on our website in January.

Obviously, this model is very close to our hearts—especially mine. So, when we came up with the idea to do a multi-car cover with the cars we love for our 150th Issue, I almost had to take step back. You see, I’m too much of an MX-5 fanboy already, and I’m not afraid to admit it. Somebody somewhere might hold my admiration for that convertible against me, so I had second thoughts about choosing the current Miata as the ‘car I love.’ But I quickly put that thought out of my mind. I had to be true to myself. The desire to keep it real surged through me. Hand me the keys to the RF, dammit.