Miata vs. Miata - AutoGuide.com
The MX-5 Miata is The Who of roadsters. It changed everything for small sports cars when first introduced in 1990. During its first three generations, the MX-5 Miata would inspire a swarm of imitators that have never quite lived up to the real thing. For 2016 there is a new, fourth generation of the MX-5 Miata and it appears Mazda may have created the brand’s own Tommy- like masterpiece. Get the Flash Player to see this player. So if you actually tested with a Soft Top NC 6 speed (not the NC 5 speed which has different trans ratio’s than the 6 speed with LSD) the NC would have been much closer to ND 6 speed. Something just did not look right when the heavy PRHT was level with ND and it looked as if the NC driver almost stopped, anyway I guess the ND Skyactiv Mazda Engine with it’s direct fuel injection make the difference as the Ford designed NC... Don’t get me wrong, the ND is great, it uses the same suspension design as the NC, but until the ND Manual Retractable Hardtop is released in a few years, you wont see many PRHT owners dropping back to a soft top. Some say that the ND’s really competitor are just the Miata’s that went before. Sad to hear that the ND steering is not as sharp as the NC’s, otherwise it sounds like the ND was a clean sweep (of the important stuff anyway, who cares about a glove box). Source: www.autoguide.com
