Mazda MX-5 NA 1.8
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Put in the asking price and the odometer reading. You will see what this model should make at that reading.
Odometer only. Colour, options, history, condition and the photographs move it further, and that is what the report reads.
Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (2) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 5,246 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
The NA done properly: the 1.8 answered the one complaint about the 1.6, and the Clubman added Bilsteins and a Torsen differential. Clean unmodified NA8s appreciated 55 per cent in eight years and attrition continues.
This record has one counted Australian result and it is a rebuilt track car. Until a standard NA8 sells here the value is an estimate, and only rust-free, stock, hardtop cars carry the premium in any case.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
The lot pages give a build year and an engine size for every result, and read back against this entry four of the six were 1.6-litre NA6 cars from 1989 to 1992. This record describes the NA8, the 1.8-litre car built from 1994. They have been moved to the MX-5 NA 1.6 entry, which now exists because of this.
Read the rest of the evidence notes (5 more)
The evidence note here previously opened by saying the correlation between distance and price was PLUS 0.32 - the wrong sign, not merely weak - on the strength of a $27,250 result at 382,754 kilometres. That car is a 1990 1.6 rebuilt in 2020 with a replacement turbocharged engine, an NB six-speed, Wilwood brakes and a full respray, making 165kW against 86kW standard. It is dear because somebody spent more than the car is worth on it, and it was never evidence about kilometres or about the 1.8.
$18,000 at Springwood, New South Wales in October 2024, for a 1993-built Clubman first registered in March 1994, at 209,274 kilometres. The Clubman is the top NA8 trim - Bilstein dampers, a Torsen differential, chassis bracing, a Nardi wheel - and this one has competed in ten Supersprint events, carries a fully rebuilt and blueprinted engine, Bride buckets, a roll bar, BC coilovers and aftermarket wheels. A rebuilt track car in the best trim is not a standard NA8 either, and it is the only counted result this record has.
And it is stated at a premium to the 1.6 rather than derived from transactions: the 1.8 brought a materially stronger engine, the Torsen differential and later build quality, and the 1.6 record now sits at $15,500 on three results.
At 1.1 per cent per 10,000 kilometres, because this record has no pair of its own to measure. It is an assumption and is marked as one.
$22,600 at 43,900 kilometres from Guildford, New South Wales in March 2026, where the source does not state the build year or the engine, so which generation it belongs to is not established. SOURCING: the Springwood result is read from the Collecting Cars lot page. Replace the estimate with a published figure the moment a standard NA8 sells.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
Send the link. A person reads the advertisement and its photographs and sends back what that Mazda MX-5 NA 1.8 is worth, what to offer and when to walk away, with five years of costs at the distance you drive.
The evidence on this model is thin and the report says so on its cover. Read a complete one on a real car first. Seventeen sections, no account, nothing to pay.
One line of email when this desk publishes a call on a Mazda MX-5 NA 1.8, or records a new Australian sale of one. Nothing else, no schedule, and on a quiet model you may hear nothing for months, which is itself worth knowing about a car you are chasing.