2016 Mazda MX-5 Designed For Removable Hard Top, But No MX-5 Coupe In The Pipeline

Nobuhiro Yamamoto, programme manager for the new Mazda MX-5, says the ND-generation MX-5 is capable of being fitted with a removable hard top - just like the first and second-generation models before it.

Speaking with TMR at the launch of the MX-5, Yamamoto wouldn't be drawn on whether Mazda itself would provide the solution, proposing instead that it would be left to a third party supplier to design and manufacture the hard top.

"We have future-proofed the MX-5 to have a hard top facility," Yamamoto said through an interpreter.

"There have been inbuilt points so that a hard top may be fitted. I imagine a third party would be able to come up with a top quite easily, but we have made the provision." 

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