Quick Trivia 3

[iRage]

Here is another picture which will help you seek out the exact variant

 

[john cooper]

  On 6/16/2025 at 3:27 PM, iRage said:

Here is another picture which will help you seek out the exact variant

 

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Maybe a Nissan B310 modified by one of the Fibre guys to hide the identity 😁

[iRage]

  On 6/17/2025 at 2:18 AM, john cooper said:

Maybe a Nissan B310 modified by one of the Fibre guys to hide the identity 😁

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No...go down @matroska's path  

[matroska]

this was quite exhausting. Thanks to a rather time consuming search on reddits miata sub reddit  I think I may have found it. Is this Eva ME-22 ? 

Edited June 17 by matroska

[iRage]

  On 6/17/2025 at 9:01 AM, matroska said:

this was quite exhausting. Thanks to a rather time consuming search on reddits miata sub reddit  I think I may have found it. Is this Eva ME-22 ? 

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YES ! It is an EVA ME-22. Over to you !

Yes..the yellow one has been making its rounds on SL socials. It is quite disheartening to see how people are bashing that car without knowing what it it. Most seem to think that someone took a Miata and ruined it with some weird kit....well..it is...sort of.
Eva motors bought base cars from Mazda (the NA roadster) and did up the entire car. The modern-day equivalent to a company doing that would be Mitsuoka with their Rock Star. Although there were no significant performance improvements, they did make cooling enhancements, and depending on the configuration, offered suspension upgrades. Now of course, if you had an actual Mazda Roadster at the time, you could send it to Eva Motors and they would do the same for your car. Apparently, not many were done up like this, therefore, almost all of these cars have been registered under the manufacturer's name Eva and not Mazda.

These things are quite rare and sell for a lot more than the standard NA Roadster/Miata/MX-5.

This particular one apparently came with the Ferrari badges even from Japan. Some Japanese dude was probably living out his Ferrari (Dino ?) fantasies.

[matroska]

  On 6/18/2025 at 1:23 AM, iRage said:

YES ! It is an EVA ME-22. Over to you !

Yes..the yellow one has been making its rounds on SL socials. It is quite disheartening to see how people are bashing that car without knowing what it it. Most seem to think that someone took a Miata and ruined it with some weird kit....well..it is...sort of.
Eva motors bought base cars from Mazda (the NA roadster) and did up the entire car. The modern-day equivalent to a company doing that would be Mitsuoka with their Rock Star. Although there were no significant performance improvements, they did make cooling enhancements, and depending on the configuration, offered suspension upgrades. Now of course, if you had an actual Mazda Roadster at the time, you could send it to Eva Motors and they would do the same for your car. Apparently, not many were done up like this, therefore, almost all of these cars have been registered under the manufacturer's name Eva and not Mazda.

These things are quite rare and sell for a lot more than the standard NA Roadster/Miata/MX-5.

This particular one apparently came with the Ferrari badges even from Japan. Some Japanese dude was probably living out his Ferrari (Dino ?) fantasies.

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I'm curious what it's registered as in Sri Lanka - I tried to run the plates in the DMT website but the service is down 90% of the time. If it did arrive as an Eva - that would have resulted in a confused individual at DMT sitting in his wood-and rattan chair. Remember this was the mid 90's when  Opels, Kias and Daewoos were registered as made in Japan. So they at least probably go the country of origin right in the book. 

[john cooper]

  On 6/18/2025 at 1:31 AM, matroska said:

I'm curious what it's registered as in Sri Lanka - I tried to run the plates in the DMT website but the service is down 90% of the time. If it did arrive as an Eva - that would have resulted in a confused individual at DMT sitting in his wood-and rattan chair. Remember this was the mid 90's when  Opels, Kias and Daewoos were registered as made in Japan. So they at least probably go the country of origin right in the book. 

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Oh may be after spotting the horse badge, DMT might have thought that the car is from the Morris family, the famous Morris bull cross with a Phoney or got modernised, so the Country of origin might say UK 😁  

[iRage]

  On 6/18/2025 at 1:31 AM, matroska said:

I'm curious what it's registered as in Sri Lanka -

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  On 6/18/2025 at 3:26 AM, john cooper said:

Oh may be after spotting the horse badge, DMT might have thought that the car is from the Morris family

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According to several sources the make is supposedly registered as Ferrari

 

Edited June 18 by iRage

[john cooper]

  On 6/18/2025 at 4:53 AM, iRage said:

 

According to several sources the make is supposedly registered as Ferrari

 

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You're joking, that's unreal mate.

[iRage]

  On 6/19/2025 at 12:18 AM, john cooper said:

You're joking, that's unreal mate.

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I wish...but knowing our guys it most likely is the case  

[matroska]

right next one 

[iRage]

  On 6/19/2025 at 7:42 AM, matroska said:

right next one 

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That notched line on the C-pillar tells it all

[matroska]

  On 6/19/2025 at 2:14 PM, iRage said:

That notched line on the C-pillar tells it all

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nice to see the clue was very well taken   @john cooper wanna have a go ?

[john cooper]

Try this

[john cooper]

  On 6/23/2025 at 12:00 AM, john cooper said:

Try this

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Anyone?

[matroska]

  11 hours ago, john cooper said:

Anyone?

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First impression was Italian but the next clues kind of eliminated the first couple of models that came to my mind.