Mazda Mx-5

Virtually every auto manufacturer is looking towards a future where cars will be electrified or purely electric. The downside to electrification is that it forces most vehicles to grow larger and heavier to accommodate battery packs.

If you needed a few days to think about putting down the deposit on the just revealed Mazda MX-5 Miata 30th Anniversary edition, you are too late. Out of the 3,000 units being made globally, only 500 were coming to the States.

There are two classes of vehicles out there: the kind that needs to be thoroughly reworked, and the kind that needs to be left untouched because it’s already pretty darn good. I recently had the chance to hop behind the wheel of a vehicle that falls into the latter category, the 2019 Mazda MX-5.

After all the rumors have been flying about a power bump for the 2019 Mazda MX-5, Mazda has finally confirmed it is true. The 2019 MX-5 will have a 181hp, 151 lb-ft of torque 2.0_liter SKYACTIV-G engine under the hood.

Mazda MX-5 fans can rejoice, according to an early Japanese review it looks like the 2019 MX-5 will be getting that power increase to 181 hp we first heard about in March. The car as it is now makes 155 hp and the only people who will be upset by this news are the folks who bought a 2018 model.

Back in March, I talked about a rumor going around that the 2019 Mazda MX-5 would be getting a healthy power bump to keep fans happy. What we heard was that the 2.0L Skyactiv-G engine would be going from 155 hp to 181 hp.

Mazda is showing off the 2018 MX-5 RF at the Chicago Auto Show. For the second year of its production, there are some new features along for the ride. For starters, all MX-5 models now come standard with Advanced Keyless Entry.

Mazda has announced some sweet new options for the 2018 MX-5 that will go on sale next month in the US. One of the most notable options is a new Dark Cherry soft top. That really means maroon, but it still looks very nice.

Has there ever been a time when a little Mazda sports car hasn’t kicked ass? Sure, they may be a bit quirky, and lord knows rotary-powered platforms had their fair share of maintenance and performance faults, but dammit if they haven’t all been cool in one regard or another.

The Mazda MX-5 (Miata) might not be a high-powered sports car in stock form, but it has the handling, balance, and fun to drive nature that make it fantastic on the track. The ND MX-5 is already all kinds of awesome, but if you want more, the guys at North Carolina outfit Long Road Racing can turn the MX-5 into the track car of your dreams.

One of the first things that people who track Mazda Miata/MX-5 cars want to do when they start shedding weight to go faster is remove all that heavy soft top stuff and put on a factory hard top.

When the latest generation (ND) Mazda MX-5 Miata was first released, I thought it was a fantastically fun and well designed car. Going back to basics by providing a lightweight, balanced vehicle with a responsive engine and great transmission made it the best Miata since the highly-regarded first-generation model.

Mazda is showing off a cool new limited edition Miata that will be offered to only 400 people in the UK. The car is the MX-5 Arctic package, and it replaces all the glossy black trim with shiny silver.

Mazda has a pair of sweet MX-5 concepts that will be coming to SEMA 2016 early next month and I want them both in my garage. The MX-5 RH Kuro has a cool custom paint color that is a semi-matte metallic in grey.

The first of the MX-5 RF retractable roof hardtop sports cars were the Launch Edition offerings and only 1000 of those were available for purchase. To coincide with the first cars starting to roll off of the production line, Mazda has announced the pricing on the mass-production RF versions in the Club Sport and Grand Touring levels.