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The newest Miata is modern, muscular, and nevertheless a small mysterious.
Mazda is a tiny firm, which provides it specific advantages more than its behemoth rivals in developing focused goods. Mazda’s size also appears to assist it maintain secrets. When we got our 1st glimpse of the all-new 2016 MX-5 Miata a few days before its global reveal—in the form of 2 low-resolution images, each partially obscured by “Not For Publication” type—we have been as genuinely shocked as we had been excited. Now this is a sports auto.
We’ve now seen the 2016 Miata in the flesh. Our observations can be summarized thusly: It looks even far better in person, its interior supplies are as nice as those in any other Mazda, it really is lengthy and low like a appropriate sports automobile, and its maker really does not want you to know anything much more about the automobile just but. The darkness occluding its technical attributes is so complete that “Eclipse” would make a good nickname for the auto. Mitsubishi most likely wouldn’t even notice.
“Modern” is the word Derek Jenkins, design director at Mazda North America, uses to describe the 4th-generation MX-5 Miata. “Muscular” may well have worked, also, as the lines and stance of the new vehicle are as aggressively masculine as something Mazda has developed given that the lengthy-lamented RX-7. The new automobile has a longer wheelbase and a longer hood, while retaining the short rear end and stubby decklid. Mazda dealers will be content to hang this new sports auto on their racks alongside the 3 and the 6, elegantly fleshing out the brand’s stylish, Kodo-fied wardrobe. (Kodo is the name of Mazda’s present styling language.)
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Jenkins says the new style evolves the MX-5 Miata further away from its British roadster roots by adopting a far more planted stance. Exactly where those automobiles normally emphasized horizontal lines parallel to the ground and looked as if their bodies have been riding atop their wheels, a fashion carried forward to the outgoing Miata, the new automobile is decrease and integrates the wheels into the tall, curved fenders. The grille and headlights give the MX-5 Miata a clear loved ones resemblance, and their low placement is crucial to the aggressive appear. This was produced achievable by lowering the engine in the chassis, but there’s also some visual sleight of hand played right here with the curve of the hood and some other detailing.
A black windshield surround equivalent to that of the 2015 25th Anniversary edition auto will be standard, and it aids accentuate the sleekness of the automobile. It also matches the darker wheels that Mazda will be specifying for most versions. Not only will these wheels resist showing brake dust, but the fact that they visually blend with the tire sidewalls assists obtain the look of a full wheel properly even in 16- and 17-inch sizes.
Inside the new MX-5 Miata, which will share its architecture but not its styling or engines with a Fiat roadster, much of the gear is borrowed from the Mazda 3, like the rotary handle knob in the center console and the infotainment screen perched atop the dashboard. The higher-backed bucket seats that have constantly graced the Miata’s cockpit appear again right here. Other features we noticed: 2 USB ports on the center stack, a couple of flimsy pop-up cup holders near the rear bulkhead, and a windblocker that appears equivalent to outgoing car’;s. We also spotted 2 sensor openings at the prime of windshield behind the rearview mirror, indicating the Miata likely will provide at least adaptive cruise manage and lane-departure warning. (The auto on display was Japanese-spec it’;s unknown at this point which of these attributes will make it to the U.S. version.)
Mazda says it aimed to take 200 pounds or a lot more out of the new auto, which would put it in between 2250 and 2300 pounds on our scales. As shown by the car’s chassis, which was displayed at this year’s New York auto show, expect a heavy dose of aluminum in its mix of components.
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To our eyes, the 4th-generation ND MX-5 Miata is closer to the second-generation NB car than the outgoing NC. The new design also reminds us of the way Jaguar evolved some of the classic E-sort lines to generate its new F-type. There’s no arguing that the 2016 Miata is unquestionably contemporary.
It is strange to think of the Miata as something but. This was, after all, the car that took the classic roadster perfect and updated it for a entire new generation of enthusiasts. That original Miata represented the pinnacle of 1980s Japanese design and engineering flattery, “retro” carried out much better than any of the more obvious heritage-mining cars that have followed in its wake, such as the Volkswagen New Beetle and the Ford Thunderbird. We have Mazda to thank as nicely for goading Porsche into building the Boxster, BMW the Z3 and Z4, and Mercedes-Benz the SLK.
The MX-5 Miata has aged gracefully in the intervening years, its legacy possessing grown stronger than these of its forebears, but it has nevertheless aged. For the ever-graying fortysomethings who may possibly wish each and every morning to relive that summer of 1989 when the now-venerable Miata debuted, there stay precious few vehicles that come close to achieving that time-machine impact. We count on this new edition to carry on the tradition.
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