Mazda MX-5 RX-8, MPS 6 and CX-7 Top Jeremy Clarksons Top 25 Favourite Cars List
Nigel Shaw of Holdcroft Mazda reports that Jeremy Clarksons Top 25 Favourite Cars list contains no fewer than 4 Mazda's - The MX-5, RX-8, 6 MPS and CX-7 are all on there!
Jeremy Clarkson writes 'The old MX-5 was a phenomenon. The bestselling sports car the world has ever seen'. It seems then that the nations favourite motoring pundit has always liked Mazda diminutive sports car but who'd have thought that it's replacement would have made his Top 25? What reasons does he give?...
'With its wider body and flared wheelarches, the new version looks a bit more beefed up, as though they haven't evolved the old one so much as sent it to the gym. It now looks like it means business.
What's really brilliant is that despite the stronger body and the greater number of toys, it weighs only 45kg more than the old one. Computer geeks didn't do that. Engineers did.
And it was engineers who did the roof. Oh I'm sure there was pressure to fit an electrically operated soft top, but this would have added weight. So what you get is a canvas top that can be raised and lowered, using one hand, from the driver's seat.
And because they've kept the weight down, the new car still feels gay, in both the new and the old sense of the word. The balance, the poise, the gearchange, the exhaust note: they're all spot on.
Everything about the new MX-5 is perfectly judged, so that what you end up with is a slightly more practical, slightly better-looking version of something you loved anyway.'
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