Awesome MX5

Berger · 8 Oct 2006 at 10:51

Personally although i quite like the MX5 for its looks, its still a little girly, found this on another forum and it looks awesome, run of 350 only however

JRS · 8 Oct 2006 at 10:53

Does it really have to have the daft things on the headlamps?

Berger · 8 Oct 2006 at 10:56

Well no, i think that ones been slightly fettled with cant find anything on it i dislike really!

Tesla · 8 Oct 2006 at 11:01

Remove the things around the lights and the weird strips stuck on the wheel arches.

Change the bumper valance and skirts for body coloured alternatives and yes it will look nice.

subxero · 8 Oct 2006 at 11:02

Really don't like that, sorry

NathanE · 8 Oct 2006 at 11:29

Where's the soft top gone? No soft top - no MX5 I'm afraid

TBH it does look a bit charvered up.

Berger · 8 Oct 2006 at 11:31

Heres an original one i think...

Beepcake · 8 Oct 2006 at 11:34

Looks more like a bastardised RX7 than an MX5.. me no likey.

Trickle · 8 Oct 2006 at 11:54

I think they look great. How much power are they putting out? Same as the current 2.0l Mx5?

Ev0 · 8 Oct 2006 at 11:56

These were out a few years ago, I had the Evo mag review of them somewhere.

There was a hard top version and a turbo version (low pressur ethough, I think about 170bhp).

The hard top looked like a baby xk8/r.

Firestar_3x · 8 Oct 2006 at 12:11

Berger said:
Heres an original one i think...

Hard to tell if its a MK2 or 2.5, if its a MK2 as standard it will be 140Bhp or it could be the turbo version which is a round 170, if its the mk2 it will be 146bhp.

1.8 btw, 2.0 only came in with the Mk3.

The red one looks great, wish they have released it.

penski · 8 Oct 2006 at 12:15

Step one: buy some used MX5s

Step two: coat liberally in superglue

Step three: ram-raid Halfords

Step four: ???

Step five: profit!

*n

Berger · 8 Oct 2006 at 13:34

penski said:
Step one: buy some used MX5s

Step two: coat liberally in superglue

Step three: ram-raid Halfords

Step four: ???

Step five: profit!

*n

Halfords do different manufacturing processes at the original factory now? :confused:

Ev0 · 8 Oct 2006 at 13:59

Firestar_3x said:
Hard to tell if its a MK2 or 2.5, if its a MK2 as standard it will be 140Bhp or it could be the turbo version which is a round 170, if its the mk2 it will be 146bhp.

1.8 btw, 2.0 only came in with the Mk3.

The red one looks great, wish they have released it.

One I had the Evo review of was a mk2.5 as it had the 6 speed box and the vvti or whatever the mazda equiv was engine iirc.

Firestar_3x · 8 Oct 2006 at 14:02

Ev0 said:
One I had the Evo review of was a mk2.5 as it had the 6 speed box and the vvti or whatever the mazda equiv was engine iirc.

VVTI engine was 146bhp stock, nice engine to drive pulls well all the way to 7500rpm, only thing i can't remember is if mazda released a factory turbo edition of the VVTI engine.

One More Solo · 8 Oct 2006 at 14:08

Front looks like a baby Aston.

Firestar_3x · 8 Oct 2006 at 14:11

Back end of a stock MX (Boot lip) looks like a dodge viper.

Back end of that one looks like the new maserati coupe.

Bonnet still reminds me of the Viper or E-type.

Ev0 · 8 Oct 2006 at 14:18

Firestar_3x said:
VVTI engine was 146bhp stock, nice engine to drive pulls well all the way to 7500rpm, only thing i can't remember is if mazda released a factory turbo edition of the VVTI engine.

The artical was about the coupe and the turbo version, released at the same time so assume it's all the same engine.

The mag article says they thought it looked E type esque too.

Freefaller · 8 Oct 2006 at 20:55

I actually like that a lot - the red one though. I'd have one. I like having a convertible, but that would also rock. A hardtop version of my car would be awesome. Especially with nearly 200bhp on tap :cool:

More rigidity for a start.

Still I'd miss having the soft top. Maybe have one of each?!

Firestar_3x · 8 Oct 2006 at 20:56

Freefaller said:
Maybe have one of each?!

That i could live with