With a relatively affordable price, the Mazda MX-5, the world's best-selling two-door sports car, has already sold more than one million so far. For the evaluation of this car, Jeremy Clarkson, a well-known automotive media person, said: "The MX-5 is perfect (perfect)", which shows the significance of the car to Mazda.
Even though Mazda officials have previously revealed that they will cancel the research and development plan of the new Mazda 6 to focus on the SUV product formation, according to the official recent disclosure, the full generation of Mazda MX-5 will still come. According to the plan, the car is expected to debut in 2024.
This may be related to the Mazda MX-5 is an independent department, according to the foreign media quoted mazda insiders, Mazda MX-5 has a different development attitude from other models.
At the same time, a set of suspected new generation MX-5 modeling drawings was exposed, although this set of pictures has not been officially confirmed, but it is expected that the new car will continue as a two-door, 2-seat convertible shape.
By comparing the current model and this set of styling diagrams, the two changes are not large, mainly reflected in the new car grille has become larger, coupled with the adjustment of the light groups on both sides to make the new car look sharper, such an upgrade is like the Mazda 6 Atez after the completion of the replacement.
It is understood that the current Mazda MX-5 has two kinds of open-top design, namely soft-top open-top open-top and hard-top open-top open-top, which has previously been imported through the official hard-top open-top, but now it can only be bought through parallel imports.
In terms of power, the current Mazda MX-5 adopts a front-mounted rear-drive (FR) layout, equipped with a 2.0-liter naturally aspirated engine, matching the maximum power of 184 horsepower, which is no higher than the previous displacement of the same 2.0-liter engine (158 horsepower), matching the 6MT and 6AT gearboxes.
It is worth mentioning that the car also launched a 1.5L engine in the European and Japanese domestic markets, although the power level is not prominent, but the price is lower.
For the next generation of models, the official revealed that the new car will not rule out the addition of some hybrid technology, but it is still dominated by internal combustion engines and is still a front-facing rear-drive model. Perhaps in the near future, the MX-5 will also become a pure electric model, but this day may not come so soon.
From the perspective of positioning, mazda MX-5 as a people-friendly Japanese two-door sports car, its pre-tax price of 27,300 US dollars (about 173,800 yuan), so the competitors in overseas markets still have a lot of competitors, such as Subaru BRZ, Toyota 86, etc., even as a convertible model, it also has Honda S660 competitors.
Subaru BRZ
Toyota 86
Honda S660
BMW 2 Series
Ford Muskang
According to the data, Mazda MX-5 ushered in the first generation of models in 1989, has been updated to the fourth generation of models, and the fourth generation of models in 2014 has been launched for 8 years, of which the third and fourth generations have achieved domestic imports, official imports stopped after the 2018 model, and now only parallel import models are on sale.
Although for general models, 8 years has already entered the end of the product, Mazda officials have said that the mazda MX-5 life cycle has always been 10 years, so from 2014 to 2024 just 10 years of nodes, there are still two years to go before the new generation of Mazda MX-5 debut time.
"Let's wait for the good news that the fifth-generation Mazda MX-5 has entered the domestic market, does this also mean that the good days of the new BRZ/86 are over?" The comments section tells TV Jun! ”
Netizen 1: The question is, will sitting on this thing get stuck in traffic? I heard that it is not good for the kidneys
Netizen 2: This is the closest ordinary people are to the dream of a roadster!
Netizen 3: Upstairs dude! The fourth generation MX-5 is priced more expensive than the new 2 series!
Netizen 4: 12 years ago NC can now sell 100,000+ and proper financial products!
Netizen 5: Don't look at less than 200 horses, the curb weight is less than a ton of accelerated bar drops.
Netizen 6: Landing 370,000 to buy a Mazda? Isn't a BBA medium-sized car fragrant?