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Next generation Mazda MX-5 due next year

Updated with press release

2016 MAZDA MX-5

https://news.mazdausa.com/vehicles-2016-mx-5

https://news.mazdausa.com/image/2016...170_header.jpg

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It is with great pleasure that we are now ready to introduce the fourth-generation Mazda MX-5, (Japanese name: Mazda Roadster). As a member of the MX-5 development team and a passionate sports car enthusiast, I am deeply grateful to all the people who created, fostered and supported this car over the years. To see that so many people around the world continue to admire the MX-5 even now, 25 years after its launch, makes me happier than I can express. It is thanks to their passion, and the different ways owners and fans enjoy this car, that the MX-5 has matured and evolved over the last quarter century. I also wish to express my gratitude and heartfelt respect to the European carmakers that originally pioneered the fun-to-drive lightweight sports car, to our staff in the U.S. who hatched the MX-5 plan more than 25 years ago, and to the many Mazda employees in Hiroshima and around the world who helped refine it and supported its evolution over the years.

Link: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/mazda/2...-ar101489.html

Sounds very promising.

I think they should just leave the Shinari design out of the Miata and actually bring Shinari out of the freakin bag already and put it to production.

Expanding the lineup might not be a good idea for Mazda. They also have been very successful with Miata for years, but don't see making the car looks better would hurt them.

Hartop turbo Miata? Yes please :)

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Originally Posted by Dark (Post 162992)

Expanding the lineup might not be a good idea for Mazda. They also have been very successful with Miata for years, but don't see making the car looks better would hurt them.

I don't have problem with mazda giving the miata a face lift but I would like them to stop dangling the Shinari concept, I'm not a cat lol.

Cat? :D

http://www.weirdthings.org.uk/wp-con...ll-the-cat.jpg

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Originally Posted by GenkiElite (Post 162998)

Hartop turbo Miata? Yes please :)

Under 1000kg and 150hp is just awesome.

Well that is awesome to hear. Can't wait till they reveal the new Miata.

So hardtop, Turbo, ~2,200lbs and 150hp is cool tho 200hp would be nicer for the weight...

I actually like the looks of this concept.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/var/ezfl...azda-miata.jpg

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Originally Posted by Snoopyalien24 (Post 163141)

So hardtop, Turbo, ~2,200lbs and 150hp is cool tho 200hp would be nicer for the weight...

You can easily add power and keep the comfort and practicality at the same level. You can't do that by reducing weight.

Says less than $25k and then later on says a little under $30k. Hope Mazda is still aiming for under $25k.

Hardtop, with turbo at ~2100-2200lbs would be nice. :)

Especially at under 25k, goddamn.

With the new SkyActive engine, the Miata would finally make decent power and fuel economy. If it comes with a 2 liter engine, it could be real competition for the FRS/BRZ. It would produce more power/weight and have better fuel economy and be a simpler engine (one set of camshafts and injectors) and cost less overall. However, I would still prefer an FRS/BRZ for the practicality of fold down rear seats and the smoother/lower boxer engine. The Miatas feel almost too small for me anyway. I still love the last generation though (pre 2006).

http://photos.autoexpress.co.uk/imag...o_473035_7.jpg
If they shrunk this, made it a coupe, and stuck a rotary engine in it, it would be a pretty badass rx-7.

There was talks about merging the RX-7 and the MX-5 a while ago.