MOTOR Magazine Australia

03 MAZDA MX-5 RF GT

THE MX-5 DISTILS THE ESSENCE OF MOTORING JOY INTO A SIMPLE AND ACCESSIBLE PACKAGE

THE CURRENT ND-GENERATION of the world’s most popular roadster, the Mazda MX-5, has been around for some time now.

It burst on to the scene in 2015, winning Wheels’ Car of the Year and making a strong impression at our own Bang For your Buck competition. It also carries one of the most compelling design philosophies of any modern car, with Mazda engineers defying the model’s generational size and weight creep and returning to the dimensions benchmarked by the original NA of 1989.

Five years on, the ND MX-5 still maintains a strong presence on the sales charts, too. This year so far, it’s bested in volume by

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