RE: New Mazda MX-5 unveiled
Discussion
MC Bodge said:
What is a "hairdresser's car"? Other than something Jeremy Clarkson might have said 25 years ago. Surely an Evoque or the like is the hair salon owners' car of choice nowadays?
A hairdressers car is a term used by insecure men to describe any convertible that's too cheap, small, slow or just FWD. 
Some would troll on here by calling a Boxster a hairdressers car which is like calling London a beach resort because it's by a river.
Don't really like the look of it, going by the photos on the previous pages. Looks a bit too stumpy, headlamps too small and large amounts of metal, giving it a heavy appearance. Might look better in real life I suppose.
The design looks to me a bit more like something from Hyundai or Kia rather than Mazda.
The design looks to me a bit more like something from Hyundai or Kia rather than Mazda.
i think it's a stunner, and think the wheel size looks perfect. You might even pick up a little performance dropping to lightweight 15s with the right, stiff enough sidewall tyres to match. Modern obsessions with stupidly large rims is a personal bug bear, and makes no sense for a small sports car without big BHP to turn them. I only hope they can keep enough steering feel with the electric system, which seems the only possible fly in some lovely smelling ointment.
Fastdruid said:
skinny said:
good looking car. imagine it could be even better with decent wheels and a folding hardtop 
No thanks. Leave the folding hardtops to the heavy all show no go cars and leave the MX-5 as lightweight thanks.Edited by Fastdruid on Friday 5th September 11:18
If rumours of a 180hp 2 litre version are true maybe, if all you get for now is a 1.5 then this car will be the very definition of all show and no go, like most of the mx5's that preceded it, most folding hardtop cars have some pretty powerful engine options were as for the mx5 you have to go aftermarket to get the "go" to go with show.....
I like the car but your last statement is frankly ridiculous
Planet Claire said:
Someone posted this up on the OC: http://imgur.com/a/1ogz3#H85yipP
Thanks for that! The metallic yellow looks great but of course so is black.I'm seeing some essence of the Furai in it in the form of its sculpted shape.
I am going to buy one of these.
I suspect Mazda are going to start benefitting from a demographic inheritance effect that hitherto it has not really had. Namely, I had a Mk2 MX5 in the 1990's as my only car. Now I am middle aged and more affluent with a big garage I can afford to have a fun car and the MX5 ticks those boxes and pushes the nostalgia of youth button. Its proposition is excellent as I already have a big heavy 300bhp car that does huge but largely unnoticed speed (BMW 535d). What I want is something that sits in the garage waiting for a sunny day/Sunday morning that will be light, thrash able, good looking, open topped and crucially won't £600 just to insure and tax, won't leak oil on the garage floor, won't need a £800 annual service, won't develop a flat battery, won't leak rainwater in etc etc.
Additionally and unusually for a sportscar the MX5 is something the wife will like to drive and be seen driving in and doesn't have the undesirable image that certain sportscars have.
I don't need 0-60. I have that. I don't need top speed. I have that. I don't need in-gear acceleration warp drive. I have that.
What I need is this MX5.
Fingers crossed the electric steering isn't horrible.
The Mk2 MX5 was the only car that I've ever routinely power oversteered on the open roads of the UK. I used to do the roundabout into work in the wet with a full half turn of opposite lock every day without even thinking. The 200SX I would occasionally do the same where there was decent space. The many BMW's and other RWD cars in my life always had too much mechanical grip to unstick with confidence at sensible speeds on normal roads.
I think they will sell bucket loads of this version.
I'm really chuffed. Hope the driving reviews are good.
I suspect Mazda are going to start benefitting from a demographic inheritance effect that hitherto it has not really had. Namely, I had a Mk2 MX5 in the 1990's as my only car. Now I am middle aged and more affluent with a big garage I can afford to have a fun car and the MX5 ticks those boxes and pushes the nostalgia of youth button. Its proposition is excellent as I already have a big heavy 300bhp car that does huge but largely unnoticed speed (BMW 535d). What I want is something that sits in the garage waiting for a sunny day/Sunday morning that will be light, thrash able, good looking, open topped and crucially won't £600 just to insure and tax, won't leak oil on the garage floor, won't need a £800 annual service, won't develop a flat battery, won't leak rainwater in etc etc.
Additionally and unusually for a sportscar the MX5 is something the wife will like to drive and be seen driving in and doesn't have the undesirable image that certain sportscars have.
I don't need 0-60. I have that. I don't need top speed. I have that. I don't need in-gear acceleration warp drive. I have that.
What I need is this MX5.
Fingers crossed the electric steering isn't horrible.
The Mk2 MX5 was the only car that I've ever routinely power oversteered on the open roads of the UK. I used to do the roundabout into work in the wet with a full half turn of opposite lock every day without even thinking. The 200SX I would occasionally do the same where there was decent space. The many BMW's and other RWD cars in my life always had too much mechanical grip to unstick with confidence at sensible speeds on normal roads.
I think they will sell bucket loads of this version.
I'm really chuffed. Hope the driving reviews are good.
peter450 said:
Fastdruid said:
skinny said:
good looking car. imagine it could be even better with decent wheels and a folding hardtop
No thanks. Leave the folding hardtops to the heavy all show no go cars and leave the MX-5 as lightweight thanks.Edited by Fastdruid on Friday 5th September 11:18
If rumours of a 180hp 2 litre version are true maybe, if all you get for now is a 1.5 then this car will be the very definition of all show and no go, like most of the mx5's that preceded it, most folding hardtop cars have some pretty powerful engine options were as for the mx5 you have to go aftermarket to get the "go" to go with show.....
I like the car but your last statement is frankly ridiculous
TBH the power is almost irrelevant, it's all about the weight in a car like this, I'd rather have a ~1t car with 100hp than a 1.5t car with 200hp.
Mannginger said:
Yup this looks great and I think I'll have to get one next year. Kind of tempting to get a last of the old model at a steep discount and then take it down to BBR as well though!
I wouldn't bet too much on that discount. People seem to love the hard top roof and if they aren't doing one of those straight away it will keep sales of the current model high and residuals on the used as well. Plus the current model will probably stop production February? so there will be short supply for next summer. (the auto has already gone.)
If there are any left when the new car actually arrives or maybe when the demonstrators of the new car turn up that would be time for a deal but from what I hear the 25th Anniversary has been a big hit so at the moment the demand is still there.
Fastdruid said:
35Kg extra way up high? No thanks. 35kg is while nothing in the grand scheme of things is quite a large amount of weight to stick high up.
TBH the power is almost irrelevant, it's all about the weight in a car like this, I'd rather have a ~1t car with 100hp than a 1.5t car with 200hp.
The weight of the roof isn't high up as the roof is plastic. The weight is in the mechanism which resides below the waistline of the car. TBH the power is almost irrelevant, it's all about the weight in a car like this, I'd rather have a ~1t car with 100hp than a 1.5t car with 200hp.
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