MXPOWER

T’S BEEN QUITE A JOURNEY FOR BRUCE Southey. When evo first turned up at his front door to drive his V6-powered Mk1 Mazda MX-5 (issue 237), it was a fledgling proposition built up around his own road car; a project that had begun when he took his wife’s identical MX-5 and shoehorned a Jaguar V6 under the bonnet as a birthday present to her (I know, what a kind-hearted soul…).

Pretty soon Bruce found himself with 25 cash deposits, cementing his conviction that giving the little Mazda the engine it deserved really was a path worth pursuing. Enter then evo and our drive in his black car that so charmed us with its raucous spirit, significant power gain and unaffected – maybe even improved – dynamics. While by Bruce’s own admission there were a few