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What Is Miatafy?

Miatafy is a Miata-first company. We started with the MX-5, we make software for its factory infotainment, and we know the Gen 6 Mazda Connect system from the boot chain up. That same head unit ships in a lot of other Mazdas, so the knowledge transfers — and so does the coverage on this site.

This page explains what Miatafy is, who the site is for, and why most of it has nothing to sell you.

The Miata comes first

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The MX-5 is the hero. It is the only model here that gets full enthusiast depth: infotainment, yes, but also tires, alignment, suspension, brakes, data logging, autocross, and HPDE prep. An ND runs near-stock in C Street (CS) and moves to A Street Touring (AST) once you add 200-treadwear tires, an aftermarket sway bar, and other bolt-ons in SCCA Solo — that is the kind of detail this part of the site exists to get right.

The track and autocross writing stands on its own. It is not a brochure for anything. We write it because we drive these cars, and because a track-focused product is coming later — but you should never be able to tell which pages were written to sell and which were written to help. The answer is all of them help.

We make software for the screen

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The Gen 6 Mazda Connect head unit is a full computer bolted into the dash, and a stock one is slower than it has any reason to be. It loads dozens of services at startup, many for hardware the car doesn’t have, before the UI is interactive. ScreenTune is our software that runs on that unit: it trims the startup, fixes long-standing annoyances, and unlocks settings the factory hid behind region codes and dealer menus.

ScreenTune targets a factory Gen 6 unit on firmware v74.00.324A. That is the line — not the badge on the trunk. A 2018 CX-5 and a 2020 Mazda3 run the same platform a 2019 Miata does; a 2021 CX-5 moved to a newer generation and does not. The full breakdown of what’s in and what’s out lives at /compatibility/supported-vehicles/.

A separate, track-focused edition is in development and will ship under its own name. We are not going to pre-announce specs we can’t stand behind yet.

The same platform runs in other Mazdas

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Because support follows the CMU and not the model name, the same infotainment knowledge applies across the CX-5, Mazda3, Mazda6, CX-3, and CX-9 of the right years. We write the platform material once and organize it by topic at /mazda-connect/overview/: CarPlay, firmware, troubleshooting, hidden menus. It is genuinely the same system in every supported car.

The non-Miata models get honest model hubs: an overview, the common complaints, a buying guide, maintenance, and short notes on what’s different on that specific car (screen size, model-year CarPlay quirks). Nobody autocrosses a CX-9, so you won’t find track content filed under one.

If your car is a generation we can’t help (a 2021+ CX-5, a 2019+ Mazda3, the latest ND), we say so plainly and explain what changed rather than pretend at coverage.

Who the site is for

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The site is a Mazda knowledge hub first and a product site second. If you never buy a thing from us, the firmware guides, the troubleshooting, and the Miata writing should still be the best version of those answers you can find. That is the standard we hold every page to.