You can credit Italian engineers for the top on your Miata, not the
Japanese. They stole the whole design from Alfa/Fiat. Look at the
exterior door handles. Remarkably similar to the Alfa Spyder's. The
whole car is a combination of Lotus Elan and Alfa Spyder with a dash of
MGB.
According to my Dad, a WWII pilot, a Kate engine was rebuilt during WWII
using parts from allied planes. It takes 8 years to receive a patent in
Japan. By that time the idea is so outdated or so copied that the value is
gone. I swear the Japanese have never had an original thought.
Herb G.
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