Love is an act of reciprocity, an outpouring of emotion with mutually sentimental (and sappy) benefits. For a crowd assembled at the Mazda pavilion at the Javits Center at the 2014 New York Auto Show, love was in the air, in the form of overwhelming joy for the universally adoredMiata convertible.

The huddled masses—which included owners, journalists, and guests—gathered to hear details of the 25th Anniversary edition Miata, which marks a quarter-century of production for the sports car that embodies so many of the characteristics that define a driver’s car. The 25th Anniversary edition Miata retains many of the visual assets of the MX-5 Club edition, which is to say, a red-and-black paint scheme inside and out, and large blackout wheels. About the car’s Soul Red metallic paint, Mazda says, “it symbolizes the multi-faceted nature of the fiery fiend within.” Bilstein shocks will be standard equipment on 25th Anniversary edition Miatas equipped with the six-speed manual transmission.

For auto show-goers lacking purchase power, Mazda presented an array of Miatas that ran the gamut from lovingly preserved, first-edition models to one-off concept cars. New York was also home to a display of the chassis for the upcoming, fourth-generation ND Miata. Miata project manager Nobu Yamamoto claimed that, while “every part is different,” it stands to be the most coverable Miata to date.