What does 'MX-5' stand for?

[Eighteeteewhy]

If anything?

MX to me usually means 'motor cross' or 'moto x'

And the '5'

Five seats, no. Five doors, no. Five cylinders, no.



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[Butter Face]

Mazda eXperimental vehicle #5.

[MGgeordie]

My Xylophone has 5 notes.....!!

Sorry, I have had

[Riknos]

Butter Face said:

Mazda eXperimental vehicle #5.

It's this.

RX' also standards for Rotary eXperimental.

Can't remember what the CX was for - Crossover eXperimental maybe?

[MX-5 Lazza]

There was also an MX-3 and MX-6. Both of these had 6-cylinder engines and in the case of the MX-3 it was a nice little 1.8 V6.

[Eighteeteewhy]

Butter Face said:

Mazda eXperimental vehicle #5.

A fairly successful experiment then.

[Eighteeteewhy]

MX-5 Lazza said:

There was also an MX-3 and MX-6. Both of these had 6-cylinder engines and in the case of the MX-3 it was a nice little 1.8 V6.

What happened to MX-4?

[Pints]

Eighteeteewhy said:

What happened to MX-4?

Probably buried somewhere in a Japan mountainside.

[jontymo]

My Ex had 5 previous!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[snotrag]

When the project was conceived in the early 80s they considered things like front wheel drive, or tin top vehicles. Thank god they went with idea number 5!

[sbird]

Eighteeteewhy said:

What happened to MX-4?

Isn't it underwater somewhere....



...or am I getting it confused with Thunderbird 4?