Alfa/ND Mule spotted in Michigan

93_Clubman · Postby **93_Clubman** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 11:11 am

zero00 wrote:The NA in 1989 was around $39k I believe...

NA6 in 1989 was $29990.

CQYD wrote:and how many do they sell a year here at that price? I'd say lucky to hit triple figures.

Triple figures, but only just:
viewtopic.php?f=76&t=30041&p=742930#p742930

And apparently 159 for the year in 2012:
http://www.motoring.com.au/news/2013/sp ... cern-36634

zero00 · Postby **zero00** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:42 pm

Found this

http://home.mira.net/~redback/mx5/mileston.html

RRP is not 'drive-away' price - RRP for the GT86 was $29,990 in July 2012 but 'drive away' bare bones price was $33,700 in QLD

Aussie Stig · Postby **Aussie Stig** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 3:10 pm

The FACT is that a base miata can be cheaper in the US than a BRZ /Scion/86 - the difference in Aust is immense.

FACT = Mazda is just dreaming.

Guran · Postby **Guran** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 6:23 pm

93_Clubman wrote:And apparently 159 for the year in 2012:
http://www.motoring.com.au/news/2013/sp ... cern-36634

Good find! I hadn't been able to source the 2012 figures. Here's an interesting comparison:

MX-5 sales NA vs NC by Guran5, on Flickr

zero00 · Postby **zero00** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 7:41 pm

That's VERY interesting Guran!! Took me a while [been a long day!]

project.r.racing · Postby **project.r.racing** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:38 am

interesting comparison. i'm assuming year 3 was 1991 (na) and 2005 (nc)?

you'd expect the NC to drop off sales in the past 3 years ('10-'13). both the NA and NB were 7 year models. the NC been dragged along for 11 so far.

93_Clubman · Postby **93_Clubman** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:27 am

project.r.racing wrote:interesting comparison. i'm assuming year 3 was 1991 (na) and 2005 (nc)?

you'd expect the NC to drop off sales in the past 3 years ('10-'13). both the NA and NB were 7 year models. the NC been dragged along for 11 so far.

NC was released in 2005.

cosmo · Postby **cosmo** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:02 pm

very interesting comparison - always thought NC was way less...

Guran · Postby **Guran** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 1:33 pm

93_Clubman wrote:
project.r.racing wrote:interesting comparison. i'm assuming year 3 was 1991 (na) and 2005 (nc)?

you'd expect the NC to drop off sales in the past 3 years ('10-'13). both the NA and NB were 7 year models. the NC been dragged along for 11 so far.

NC was released in 2005.

93_Clubman is correct. In my graph, 2013 was year 9 for the NC and it has roughly another year to go before the ND arrives. This is one year longer than the NA lasted before the NB was released. Interesting to see that the NC has always tracked ahead of the NA in cumulative sales, despite having much more competition.

MX-5 sales NA vs NC cumulative by Guran5, on Flickr

Nevyn72 · Postby **Nevyn72** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:42 pm

Guran wrote:Interesting to see that the NC has always tracked ahead of the NA in cumulative sales, despite having much more competition.

However to be a fair comparison you would have to make some sort of adjustment to the figures, say calibrate them to be reflective of total market size, to give a better indication of true market penetration.....

Guran · Postby **Guran** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 3:18 pm

Nevyn72 wrote:
Guran wrote:Interesting to see that the NC has always tracked ahead of the NA in cumulative sales, despite having much more competition.

However to be a fair comparison you would have to make some sort of adjustment to the figures, say calibrate them to be reflective of total market size, to give a better indication of true market penetration.....

Don't let me stop you. Please go right ahead. :lol:

Nevyn72 · Postby **Nevyn72** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 9:35 pm

Guran wrote:
Nevyn72 wrote:
Guran wrote:Interesting to see that the NC has always tracked ahead of the NA in cumulative sales, despite having much more competition.

However to be a fair comparison you would have to make some sort of adjustment to the figures, say calibrate them to be reflective of total market size, to give a better indication of true market penetration.....

Don't let me stop you. Please go right ahead.

Well I could...... but obviously don't think is worthwhile or particularly fair as the far more beautiful and obviously superior NB series sales figures have been omitted so as not to embarrass the more humble results achieved by the NA & NC siblings.....

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* runs away and hides

sailaholic · Postby **sailaholic** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 10:57 pm

ha! NB == R33

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racer_x · Postby **racer_x** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:57 pm

You need to take into account the exchange rate in the early 90s vs. 2005 when the NC was released.

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Vat · Postby **Vat** » Wed Mar 12, 2014 10:51 am

racer_x wrote:You need to take into account the exchange rate in the early 90s vs. 2005 when the NC was released.

Also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1990s_recession_in_Australia. New car market dropped about 20% (less than 450k units) and was less than half of what it is at the moment (around a million).