Mazda MX-5 Miata Cabriolet

The Mazda MX-5 - the Miata in North America, the MX-5 everywhere else - is the world's best-selling sports car, and it holds that position not through power or specification but through understanding something about driving that most manufacturers have complicated: the feeling of being exactly the right size for the road you are on. The global Miata community - clubs on six continents, hundreds of thousands of active enthusiasts, the democratically priced sports car tradition that began in 1989 - gathers around this vehicle for the same reason every generation has. Because it is simply correct.

The 2024 MX-5 weighs under 1,000 kilograms. The soft-top roof folds in under six seconds. The seating position is low - you are in the car, not sitting on top of it - and the horizon arrives through the windscreen rather than above it. Two seats only. A boot that holds two soft bags for a weekend. On Tenerife's mountain serpentines - Masca, Anaga, the upper Teide approach - the MX-5 changes direction with a precision and a communication that heavier, more powerful cars cannot replicate regardless of engineering budget. The rear axle tells you exactly what it is doing at all times. This is not a metaphor.

Your MandryCabrio guide for the MX-5 includes Tenerife's roadster-specific routes - the ones that reward a light, balanced, rear-wheel-drive car more than any other vehicle in the fleet. Masca is on the list. So is the final stretch of the Anaga ridge, the descent from El Portillo, and the coast road sections where the corners arrive in a rhythm that the Miata was built to keep. Your WhatsApp contact knows where the Tenerife Miata community meets and where the parking spots that show the car's proportions to best effect are located. Hotel delivery. Tested on every route included.

This is a car that knows precisely who it is for. The visiting Mazda MX-5 or Miata community member will find their car waiting; the driver who values handling feel and balance over outright power and speed will recognise within the first corner why this roadster has outlasted everything thrown against it; the couple who want a pure roadster experience - two people, open sky, the right road, nothing more - will want for nothing else. And the enthusiast who knows exactly what 50/50 weight distribution means on a winding road will spend a week confirming it.

The routes we recommend are chosen because they reward this particular car. The Masca serpentine is the definitive Tenerife drive for a balanced roadster. The Anaga ridge road - narrow, winding, relentlessly cornered - is the MX-5 at its most natural and precise. The TF-21 Teide descent lets the rear-wheel-drive balance breathe on the volcanic mountain road, while the approach to Punta de Teno delivers a dramatic coastal final stretch that feels designed for two. And on the single-lane roads of the north coast, the Miata's compact width stops being a charming detail and becomes a genuine, practical advantage.