I’m often travelling between High Wycombe and Amersham. I very frequently see at least one or two MX5s on the way - once it was 5 of us/them I passed.
Yet I can drive into north London which I do every week or two and see no other MX5’s. Or, recently, all the way to Devon and back for a bank hol weekend break with reasonable weather and only see one…
It’s weird, there’s no reason why High Wycombe/Amersham should be some kind of MX5 hot spot?!