GTP Cool Wall: 2015+ Mazda MX-5 (ND)

[lxmmy]

Has to be one of my favourite cars to be released in 2015.

Cool.

 

[Adamgp]

Fiat version looks better, IMO.

SU.

 

[AlvaroF]

I don't like roadsters, but there are very few exceptions and Miatas are one of them. They are small, light, simple and pure fun. And as clinical as this one might be (we aren't in 1990 anymore, technology has moved on and so has car making) it recovers the magic lost by the NC. I don't find the design to be offensive, actually I like it better than the 124. I've seen a couple of them and they are cool. Problem though, mid-life crisis car. So it just scrapes cool, but Cool. Needs a bigger wheel though, it doesn't feel right with the standard size.

 

[LivingWithGames]

I like the MX-5. Just not this year.

Balances to meh.

 

[Nessy]

Just about scrapes a low cool. It's coolness will increase with age.

 

[CodeRedR51]

The bad placement on the front LED lights takes this down a notch to cool for me.

 

[Roger the Horse]

A fresh redesign of an unpretentious open top sports car.

 

[ToyGTone]

Better than the NC but still not better than the NA IMO.

 

[niky]

Aardvark snout. Stupid glovebox, stupid useless sunvisors, stupidly small trunk, and worst steering feel of any Miata ever, and that includes the NC1, which was worse than the NC2.

*Don't know why people complain about the top. It's still a doodle to operate. But then, I'm double jointed, so I don't have to turn around to reach for it...

But, so help me, still cool. because you can't buy a brand new NC, or NB or NA, anymore, and it's the only so-called sports car available today that I might actually buy with actual money if I won the actual lottery, because it actually makes me happy.

Low cool.

 

[SVX]

Didn't these come with an automatic too?

 

[ScottPuss20]

You can't go wrong with an MX-5. Cool

 

[Grandea GTR]

Didn't these come with an automatic too?

That they did.

RRRRRGGGGHHHHH ANGRY YET HAPPY AT THE SAME TIME

Meh. They did well incorporating the Kodo styling to the Roadster, but I feel that they could have done... better.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

The gen 1 was cute and cool and the gen 2s were more purposeful and very cool, but they both had personality. This on the other hand isn't cool, not now, not ever. It just seems a bit clinical and the styling grates on me too much. I know that looks don't always equate to how cool a car is, but it does look too much like a cut-price Z4 for me.

Uncool.

Thank you this is all I ever see out of it. Which just screams uncool to me.

 

[Stotty]

MX5

SU

 

[7up747]

Meh. Not intrested in mx5s.

 

[LM7325]

It just makes cool despite itself.

 

[Wiegert]

How small is the minority consisting of people who genuinely think that the ND is the coolest MX-5 to date?

How small is the minority who think that the ND is the coolest iteration yet still don't believe it's worthy of a "Cool" vote?

I fall into the latter bracket. Maybe the coolness will seep through with age. It just isn't quite there at present.

 

[Fastcarguy]

Words cant really describe how much I hate this generation of MX-5. uncool

 

[CSLACR]

Miatas don't make any sense. All the daily driver problems of an impractical car, on a car with daily driver performance....(but really good handling).... Why??
I gave it "cool" because of it's looks and how awesomely light they managed to make it in this era.

 

[Murcie_LP640]

Miatas don't make any sense. All the daily driver problems of an impractical car, on a car with daily driver performance....(but really good handling)...

MX-5s are not designed to be daily drivers, I don't know where you're getting that impression from despite its "performance" (which the 2.0 is quicker than the "dedicated sports car" Toyota 86).

Still this car is Uncool because of the people that drive it. Not hairdressers or homosexuals as has been stereotyped for decades (which we all know of course to be false)... No, it's the "answer is always Miata" crowd.

 

[Tornado]

I don't think most daily drivers are as fast as the 2.0 regardless. A V6 Accord will wreck one, but most people don't buy V6 Accords.

 

[CSLACR]

MX-5s are not designed to be daily drivers, I don't know where you're getting that impression from despite its "performance" (which the 2.0 is quicker than the "dedicated sports car" Toyota 86).

Still this car is Uncool because of the people that drive it. Not hairdressers or homosexuals as has been stereotyped for decades (which we all know of course to be false)... No, it's the "answer is always Miata" crowd.

Why isn't it a daily driver? (not that I said it was)
Unless you need to carry more than 1 passenger and some cargo, it's a perfectly acceptable dd.
Or did you mean only car?

 

[Murcie_LP640]

Why isn't it a daily driver? (not that I said it was)
Unless you need to carry more than 1 passenger and some cargo, it's a perfectly acceptable dd.
Or did you mean only car?

You're saying that MX-5s don't make sense to you based upon the fact that it has "daily driver" performance (which is kind of confusing in the first place because many drivers have a single car or a daily driver that has fairly significant performance. Mine has 300hp and can outrun V8s in rolling acceleration for an example, but I digress) and is impractical as a daily driver.

I'm merely saying it would make more sense if you look at it not as a daily driver, which is what you insinuated despite denying that you said it.

 

[CSLACR]

You're saying that MX-5s don't make sense to you based upon the fact that it has "daily driver" performance (which is kind of confusing in the first place because many drivers have a single car or a daily driver that has fairly significant performance. Mine has 300hp and can outrun V8s in rolling acceleration for an example, but I digress) and is impractical as a daily driver.

I'm merely saying it would make more sense if you look at it not as a daily driver, which is what you insinuated despite denying that you said it.

Ok, I'll bite. What's it for? Sunday drives where I might get romped by a Camry?

 

[Murcie_LP640]

Ok, I'll bite. What's it for? Sunday drives where I might get romped by a Camry?

You're having a laugh right?

It's a sports car. And a Camry does not handle as well as one nor feel as good while doing it.

 

[FerrariF1GT]

Sunday drives where I might get romped by a Camry?

I don't know.

If it were a 2.2 Camry though, I would panic.

 

[CSLACR]

You're having a laugh right?

It's a sports car. And a Camry does not handle as well as one nor feel as good while doing it.

So it has very average performance besides really good handling and feel. A Cavalier sports car, if you will.
Cheap, dependable, fun, and best of all, you don't have to worry about speeding when you romp on it.

 

[Heldenzeit]

The performance is really dependant on the driver here. I was able to beat up on some much more expensive sports cars on track with an ND.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Fiat is cooler. Meh.

 

[LM7325]

All this silliness on performance... I imagine an MGB buyer in 1969 could care less that an Impala had him on the straights. Was not the point then or now I think.