I am looking for a new car and really want to be back in a Mazda.

Tell me about the Protege. I've seen a few IT Proteges around the southeast.

Which is the model to have? I've been looking at mid 90's-2000 model, they seem to be around my price range.

I always THOUGHT these used Miata motors but someone told me no that the early 90 ones had SOHC motors and later ones use 1.8 similar to the 1.8 Miata?

So what's the model to get?