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Looks like a retarded shark.
I am. Would trade in the GTi in a heartbeat. Especially for a coupe...Nobody is going to buy a brand new Miata. At least for now....
The reveal car was a japan spec car with 16" wheels. The car sitting outside was a US spec with 17" wheels.Either those wheelwells are absolutely massive, or those are the smallest 16" wheels I've ever seen. I like how it looks, very reminescent of an RX8 from the front.
I'd still get a BRZ though.![]()
Damn. Just realized the PR says it's already 100kg+ lighter. My bad @R1600Turbo .It looks to me like they're just repeating what mazda said in the past about the 220lb loss, not something they learned tonight.
Yeah, we've heard the story, you're gonna pick it up dirt-cheap used in 5+ years.I'm with @Omnis on this. Nobody is going to buy a brand new Miata. At least for now....
You don't need much braking power for a 2200-2300lb car.After looking at it a lot more, I totally hate the hood/bumper shutline and the way it goes "up". And those brakes are awfully tiny behind the 17s.
That's because our Nazi government decided it needed more safety features or some crap. And I bet your Civic had rear drums too. Braking technology has also come a long way since 1993.My 1993 Civic weighed 2100lbs back in the day, and those 9" disks up front didn't actually make it stop all that good either.
Mazda "claims" it weighs 100kg less than the outgoing NC. Bet you that's the base model with absolutely zero options vs the fully equipped, top of the line NC. You can claim pretty much anything, it's all BS until there's solid evidence. Remember when the Alfa 4C was weighing 2200lbs before it came out in Europe, and somehow it now weighs 2800lbs in the US?
It doesn't really look like an 'MX-5' as such. I'm not one for the nostalgia of making every car look like the first incarnation of a vehicle, but by changing the proportions as much as they have it'll take a while to get used to.Looks like a generic roadster now.
Are you referring to the PRHT, or the NB coupe? If the latter, then that was only ever meant to be a limited-run vehicle and isn't representative of the popularity of a proper coupe.I think they learned with the previous Coupe that it just doesn't sell compared to the convertible.
Looks like a generic roadster now
To be fair, I think me meant more "generic modern roadster". Which it kind of is - there's nothing that specifically marks it out as a Mazda, less a Mazda MX-5. While the NC was starting to get a bit contrived the proportions and details weren't a lot different from the NB or NA, whereas this is quite a departure. I like it, but if someone had said to me without me having prior knowledge, "This is the new sub-Z4 BMW roadster" I'd not have said "no, it looks more like an MX-5".The Miata has always been "the generic roadster".
The headlights are so tiny. That's refreshing because so many cars these days have enormous housings.
Can anyone see the redline better than me? Red marks after 7k, full redline at 7,500?
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