Exactly. Safety engineering is a huge factor.
Yes, my girlfriend drives a fiesta, not the ST. The fiesta is a good little car, but the focus is a much better car. The fiesta is a smaller car than the focus, but it's still just as good. I have a 2013 focus as a second car, so I can carry more. But than you have the mustang. My 67 mustang is slower (I don't know, but I'm taking the guess) than the focus, but the focus is much newer than the mustang. But if you take a new v8 mustang against the miata or a smaller car like the focus or fiesta, its not something to compare. Do you want a 4 door, 4 cylinder hatch or sedan or do you want a 2 door, 8 cylinder coupe. Maybe even you want a dodge challenger or a Ford Falcon, both are v8s, both are sedans. Think what you want. Not what we tell you.
Compared to a Miata, it's a sledgehammer. Just for reference, this comparison doesn't really seem to be that far off. I just remembered that I had a friend of mine go from a NC Miata, to a SRT-8 Challenger, to a NA Miata. Not because he couldn't afford the latter two, but because he said the NA Miata was the most fun.
