• thantik@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I hate how Wikipedia and everywhere else just kind of retconned it being called the “MX-5” like it was ever called that when it was released. It’s the fucking Miata. They didn’t start this MX-5 bs until like the 5th 4th generation.

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        4 months ago

        https://www.chicagotribune.com/2006/11/05/you-say-miata-they-say-mx-5-sometimes/ - I’m talking about the US market.

        Looks like in 2006 they wanted to abandon the name Miata. But Wikipedia has it retconned like it was always called the MX-5, even in the US Markets.

        Kind of like The Matrix and the Wachowski Brothers. End credits have been altered to say “Wachowski Sisters” to be more in line with their current identities – but when they made the original movies, they didn’t have those identities. I think it’s wrong to re-write history like that.

        The article at least calls it the “MX-5 Miata”, but if they wanted to keep the history of the Miata, they should just call it a Miata. If they want to make it a new car, they just need to classify it as having ended the Miata, and begun a new car series called the MX-5. I dunno - I’m just being cranky I guess. I love the Miata.

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            4 months ago

            Oh shut the fuck up, nothing I said was anti-trans in any way.

            I’d have the same problem with a woman (Ms. X) who produced movies, got married, and then had them go back to every movie she ever made to alter the name to her new name to Mrs Y. She wasn’t that name when she produced the original movies, so we shouldn’t be changing it, because she wasn’t Mrs. Y back when they were produced.

            The Miata was always the Miata until recently, but they’re retconning it being called the MX5 in the NA region. You lose information by retroactively changing historical record.

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      4 months ago

      My personal theory is they wanted to get away from the Miata punchlines, but that was half its brand, I have heard people say they like/want/have Miatas, never heard of MX-5 outside of seeing it in print.

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        4 months ago

        MX-5 is the way they’re commonly referred to in racing, but I hear most people call the older street cars Miatas

  • edric
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    4 months ago

    My dream toy car if I had enough disposable income to own and maintain one.