Mazda MX5 parties like it's 1989 - Express.co.uk
Some 26 years (or 25 in the UK as it didn’t arrive here until March 1990) and 942,000 sales later and this latest, fourth-generation of MX5 is about to go on sale this autumn. But unlike most new successive models this isn’t just the next in line, promising to be bigger and better than before. You’d be hard pressed to find anyone at the Japanese firm who would officially admit it but there’s little doubt that the MX5 had lost its way a little with age. It wasn’t especially fast or luxurious but what it could offer was fun with a capital F. Yes it was basic but it handled well, had superb steering, a short-throw gearbox and above anything else was guaranteed to put a smile on your face whether... It’s exactly those emotions and feelings that Mazda is hoping to recreate with this new MX5. It might be the world’s bestselling two-seater sports car (a title it has held since 2000) but Mazda isn’t taking anything for granted, having gone back... It wasn’t that the two intervening generations of MX5 were especially bad but as they grew in terms of size and refinement levels they also got a little further away from that original ethos. This new car, though, is smaller and some 17 stone lighter than its immediate predecessor, so far closer to that first 1989 model. Source: www.express.co.uk
