This is an awkward news item, for me.  You see, my friends read TMR (they just like to pick out my typos), and more than a few of them drive early Mazda MX-5s.  What’s awkward about that, you wonder?  Only that I’m always giving them stick for driving little haidressers cars.

So to have the internationally [...]

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The NA-NB Mazda MX-5 series is already a remarkably small car, but dump the thing on some appropriately-small wheels (and push the offset right down for good measure), and you’ll be lucky if you can see the head of the driver next to you.

Cheers, Russ!

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Mazda’s classic MX-5 roadster will be celebrating its 20th birthday this week and boy, has it aged well. While other cars have grown bigger, fatter, and in a lot of cases, slower over the years, Mazda has resolutely stuck by the MX-5’s original formula of a lightweight chassis, revvy engine and sublime suspension tuning.

Since its [...]

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We touched on the rumours of a potential Mazdaspeed MX-5 in August last year, when it seemed the project might actually be happening.  It seems though that the bedside prayers and occult-summoning spells of all those Mazda MX-5 devotees have come to nought: the word has come down from above, there will be no NC Mazdaspeed [...]

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When I get home from a hard day slogging away at the keyboard in my warm office while the rain pours down in sheets outside, I love to sit back and read yet more rumours and speculation. You know what, I’m not even being sarcastic there. The fact is; half the time the [...]

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