2026 Mazda Miata Prices Barely Budge From 2025, Ranging From Bare-Bones at $32K to Fully-Loaded at $42K - No Tariff Effect?

The prices for the 2026 Mazda Miata have been released, and they have hardly gone up at all. The base Sport rises from $31,065 in 2025 to $31,665 in 2026, and that price includes the (unchanged) $1,235 Destination fee. That’s about a 2% bump up in price for the new model year. Lower than a typical jump for a new model year vehicle. By all accounts, tariffs haven’t had any meaningful impact on the best sports car built by mankind.

Tariffs and Imports - Miata is Made In Hiroshima, Japan
The Mazda Miata is imported to America from Hiroshima, Japan. The same place where every Miata ever built has been produced. It’s trucked, shipped, and trucked to your local dealer after having traveled across the globe. It’s perhaps the least American vehicle one can buy, and its price seems unaffected by tariff changes.

2026 Mazda Miata - 3 Familiar Trims Continue On
The three trims for Miata remain Sport (Base), Club, and Grand Touring. We played with the 2025 configurator, threw in all the good stuff, and came up with a price of about $41,240 for a Grand Touring RF manual. For 2026, the same build looks to cost about $40,280 in 2026. These prices also include the Destination charge.  At the top end, the Miata looks to be going down in price, but it may be due to packages we added or didn’t. There’s really no meaningful price change. To max out the price of a Miata, start with an RF (Retractable Fastback)) add an automatic transmission for those physically unable to drive a manual. It has a $970 adder. There is also a tan Nappa leather seat option for $300.

What We’d Buy
Having owned a Miata for many years, having tracked multiple generations of Miatas, and tested virtually every configuration since the NB days, your author’s suggestion would be to buy a Sport if you want a Sunday Cruiser and don’t mind missing a few small features, or go for a Grand Touring if you like the fancy bits. The Club is for the folks who pretend they are going racing.

What do you think of the 2026 Mazda Miata prices? Did you expect a big jump in cost due to tariffs? Tell us in the comments below. 

John Goreham is the Vice President of the New England Motor Press Association and an expert vehicle tester. John completed an engineering program with a focus on electric vehicles, followed by two decades of work in high-tech, biopharma, and the automotive supply chain before becoming a news contributor. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE int). In addition to his fourteen years of work at Torque News, John has published thousands of articles and reviews at American news outlets. He is known for offering unfiltered opinions on vehicle topics. You can connect with John on LinkedIn and follow his work on his personal X channel or on our X channel. John employs grammar and punctuation software when proofreading, and he sometimes uses image generation tools.