I rolled up to my evening coffee social in the Timmies parking lot in the 2017 Mazda MX-5 RF , with the roof up. You feel like you’re wearing the MX-5 RF more than you’re sitting inside of it. “Is that a Lotus?!” one friend asked. “That thing a Jag??” asked another. The MX-5 is a tiny car, and its roof comprises a large portion o

“Woooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!” Zoom-Zoom motherhuggers! It’s 10 am, the sun is bright and I’ve just hit the first set of corners in the all-new 2016 Mazda MX-5 . The top is down, BackSpin is cranking out killer tunes and I am in my happiest of happy places. Underneath me, this new, lighter, shorter chassis follows the

Somehow, over the years, cars seem to have lost their joy. Today's hordes of bulky crossovers and over-engineered sedans offer up loads of comfort, abundant technology, and ever-increasing levels of performance, but seldom any driver engagement or fun – unless you think clicking shift paddles and listening to fake engine noise counts as fun.

Vehicle Type Convertible Roadster History/Description Winter is in full swing – and if you’re a car buff longing for warmer-weather motoring, few things will warm your soul like sitting down with a hot chocolate and contemplating the idea of rocking a new-to-you convertible roadster when springtime finally hits. It’s hardly convertible wea

It wasn't until my third run that it finally clicked. I have been autocrossing for six years, but I've never driven anything like this. I only need to turn the wheel half as much and the car snakes through the cones. I can control the nose almost as much with the throttle as I do with the wheel. It's just about perfect. I finally understand why the

MX-5 Miata owners are a fun bunch. Mazda has done an excellent job of taking their most iconic machine and improving it just where it’s most needed. Following our first drive of the updated 2019 Mazda MX-5 , our small convoy of roadsters were piloted back to Mazda Canada’s headquarters in Richmond Hill, Ontario. There we joined a Cars

The 2017 Mazda MX-5 RF was unveiled at a pre-show launch on Tuesday night in New York, days before the official opening of the show. The RF stands for "Retractable Fastback" - a body style sure to incite lust from many a Miata fan boy. All North American models will get the same 2.0L SkyActiv-G four-cylinder as the 2016 Mazda MX-5 soft top.

Day 1 And now for something completely different! Okay, perhaps not completely different but special nonetheless. The all-new for 2016 Mazda MX-5 : more commonly known as the "New Miata." For 2016 Mazda has truly gone back to the drawing board with the MX-5 and back to its roots. For the first time since the original MX-5 was launched in 198

SAN DIEGO – At the risk of name-dropping, I once interviewed Jay Leno, better known as the God of Gearheads. The man has driven just about every car in the world and seems to own at least half of them. And when I asked about his favourites, he said the best clutch-and-shifter combination, of anything he’s ever driven, belongs to the Mazda MX-5.

A funny thing happened to the 2018 Mazda MX-5 Miata earlier this year: its parent company announced that the ’19 model would squeeze 26 more horses from its 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine, thanks in part to a higher redline and a shuffled powerband. The end result is complete confidence […] through the kinds of corners that would leave larg

You may not realize this – I know I didn’t – but the famous Mazda Miata didn’t actually debut in Japan. Didn’t debut in Asia, or Europe, or a roadster hotbed like LA either. Coincidentally, it was at the Chicago Auto Show in 1989 that we all had our first glimpse of what would become one of the most famous cars we’ve ever seen. You don’t have to

When Mazda introduced its fully redesigned fourth-generation MX-5 for the 2016 model year, the previous-generation car’s retractable hardtop option was notably absent. That has been remedied with the introduction of the 2017 Mazda MX-5 RF. The RF stands for “retractable fastback” and it’s not quite a convertible, but more like a power-folding targa

To say that the agilely adorable 2017 Mazda MX-5 GS and the adorably agile 2017 Fiat 124 Spider Abarth are similar is an understatement bordering on fake news. These two roadsters are built on the same platform in the same factory in Hiroshima, Japan, and share many identical measurements and accoutrements starting with their easy-to-open/c

What does Shakespeare’s “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” mean? Until recently, that was a total mystery. But we can now tell you exactly what it means, line by line, because we have seen the light. The 2016 Mazda MX-5 light that is. With it, we chased away winter. The following is a line-by-line analysis of the Bard’s 18 th sonnet.

The sun never set on the British automotive empire. Granted, former heavyweights like British Leyland did get their legs chopped off a bit in the 1970s. ’Tis but a scratch! While Rover and MG and Morris etc. are now, at best, shagged out after a long squawk, there is still a vibrant auto manufacturing industry in the UK these days. Why, they buil