Mazda to launch special 20th Anniversary MX-5 Miata in Geneva
Twenty years. Can you believe it’s been two decades given we first heard the Japanese phrase Jinba ittai (meaning “rider as well as a equine have been one”)? To catch you up, way back in 1976, some Mazda engineers asked American automobile journalist Incline Gymnasium what they should build subsequent. Mr Gymnasium, who later wound up operative for Mazda, mentioned the bugs-in-the-teeth British roadsters that every gearhead both loved as well as loathed. Their reputation as great driver’s cars was usually preceded by their rep for breaking down and stranding you on the side of the road.
If Mazda could operative a tight, compact, great-handling roadster that didn’t dump all the fluids each other Wednesday, they’d surely have a hit. Back at the 1989 Chicago Auto Show, the world met the MX-5, most, much better known as the Miata. Given afterwards, nearly 1,000,000 Miatas have been built, with just under 400,000 of them getting snatched up by American consumers. In other words, the Miata gambit worked.
To honour twenty years of building such great sports cars, Mazda will be introducing a 20th Anniversary Limited Edition MX-5 Miata at subsequent month’s Geneva Motor Uncover. Pay special courtesy to the “Limited” part of the name, as only 2,000 anniversary cars will be built, and they’ll usually be available in Europe. Asingle reason for the latter might be that a 20th Anniversary cars have been based upon the smaller displacement 1.8-liter automobile, a version of the Miata not sold in the States, or it could be that we may get our own commemorative edition to be voiced during a la ter date.
Like most anniversary packages (see the big four-oh Nissan Z), nothing too exciting is happening to this Miata. There is, of course, the requisite numbered plaque. There’s the chrome grille surround, chrome door-handles and chrome headlight surrounds. You also get “silver-look” fog light surrounds, plus special 17-inch wheels with “20th Anniversary” logos. The 20th Anniversary cars have been available usually in red, white or a new Aurora Blu e, that we find rather sharp looking. And lest you think Mazda’s not tossing a bone to performance enthusiasts, a car comes with the strut-tower prop.
Gallery:20th Anniversary Mazda MX-5 Miata
[Source: Mazda]
