The 1990 model year was a very very good one for automobile enthusiast. Truly, the sun rose bright and shinning midway through 1989 when the first generation Miata arrived that summer. Here was a small unassuming sporty 2-door convertible that would shortly take the World by storm.
So the MX-5 has grown. It is about two inches longer than the previous model and an inch and a half wider. Its wheelbase has been stretched 2.5 inches. Thankfully, the car still feels small and any weight increase is nominal. Give Mazda whatever credit you think it deserves for this engineering feat, but if ever there was a time to shed a few of the car\342\200\231s 2,500 pounds, this was it.
When it was launched back in 1989, Mazda\342\200\231s MX-5 revolutionized the sports car industry by providing a modernized version of the classic \342\200\23160s British sports car. Now in its fourth generation, the MX-5 has been around for quite some time, and, unfortunately, those first models have gotten quite old and are now facing body and structural problems. Rather than sending these modern-day MGs to the scrap heap, British kit-car maker Westfield has come up with a very clever solution.
Mazda officially unveiled the MX-5 Roadster Coupe this morning at the British International Motor Show, and it has the makings of a big winner. If you're willing to accept the weight penalty for the retractable hardtop -- the Roadster Coupe weighs 81.5 pounds more than the standard MX-5 Roadster -- you'll be hard-pressed to find a four-season roadster this good.
Who can afford the actual price of an Aston Martin Vanquish S? Not us, and apparently not Australian fitness instructor Michael Lebedev, who has produced a kit that transforms a garden variety Mazda Miata MX-5 into something resembling a Vanquish left in the dryer too long.
The Saturn Sky is a \223very credible all-American alternative to the made-in-Japan [Mazda] Miata,\224 says Thane Peterson of Business Week. Peterson praises the \223aggressive\224 exterior design of the car, which he says looks \223stronger\224 than the Pontiac Solstice.
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