5/29/2023 0 Comments Jay leno triumph spitfireHall, a long time lover of British sports cars, proposed the idea of a light two-seat roadster based on the underpinnings of the rwd 323. It all started at the end of the 1978, when the then Motor Trend Journalist Bob Hall had a conversation with Mazda’s R&D director Kenichi Yamamoto about what kind of cars the Company should build in the future. We gathered a first generation NA series example and put it against the newest ND series RF MX5 to celebrate 30 years of this little gem from the Rising Sun. 2019 marks 30 years since the introduction of this car on the market: it seemed appropriate for us, connoisseurs of fine motorcars, to celebrate this anniversary the proper way. In the world of today, where marketing and branding own everything and cars seem to be made for either clueless drivers and famous instagrammers, it’s a miracle that a car such as this still exists. ![]() In 2019 and 5 years later, the words by Matano-San are even truer than you would imagine. The MX5 is the most successful sports car ever produced: over 1 million have been sold in 30 years and it seems that it will go on in the years to come. “A part of the success of the MX5 was that it truthful and not trendy”ĥ years ago, during an interview with Jay Leno for the 25 years of the Miata, Tom Matano, one of the fathers of the Mazda MX5 explained with incredible simplicity the soul of this remarkable sports car.
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