Love the MX-5, looks like you have nearly the same model as me, but in ragtop. I fell in love with the blue color, only available in the RF edition here, and I wanted a hard top anyway given the amount of rain we have. Have you learned the Mazda salute yet? On the older models, you are supposed to flip up the headlights, on the newer ones just blip your high beams. Or just smile and wave.
I did meet a chap with a red one yesterday, on my drive home from buying my wife's 30th anniversary present...he took the turn up the old road near my house, the one with the steep hills with switchback corners. So I had to follow him, right? And just because he decided to step on it, I couldn't let him try and leave me in the dust, could I? I mean, that's MY road! Never mind that the mudflaps were scraping the road on the corners, that's rallying...
The other fun thing is that as you put the roof up she automatically lowers the windows but does not raise them again after the roof is clamped in place. Of course unless the engine is running you have no windows control so you can't raise them again without starting the engine 
Yeah, that's fun hopping in your car after a bit of rain. Wet tushy will teach you to double check your windows when you park.
But, I also learnt the trick to getting aux power without restarting: leave your foot off the clutch (I usually put the shifter to neutral, just in case, I'm old fashioned I guess), and push the start button once, it should glow orange - but still no window power. Push it again, and it should light up green, and now you have power to windows/stereo etc. Push a third time and it goes off. All of this assumes you have the little fob/remote thingy with you. If you don't, you get to hear what the alarm sounds like
When I did that, the car was up on ramps for its first oil change, and I ran back into the house to find my keys, which weren't where I'd left them....oh yeah, they were still in the wife's car in the garage, right where I'd left them after doing her car's oil change.
