While I can appreciate your advice, I don't plan on sticker-ing the car all up and I have to put my "touch" on it. It's not required by law here in GA so I put my Miami Hurricane plate. Bright side, it's the OEM one so the holes go in the grille area. The top half of the grill has the pattern but has plastic behind it. The plate bracket goes there. The holes (if I took it off) would barely be noticeable among the black grille area. If I didn't have the OEM one ready and wanted to drop $80, I'd get the Platypus Pro one that uses the stock tow hook and allows you to locate it off to the side but I think on this generation of Miata (first face NC), it looks off. Who knows, I might hate the look and take it off. Unless someone has a less damaging solution (which the OEM isn't even that bad), let me know by tomorrow afternoon.