Going against the grain of the auto industry, the next generation Mazda MX-5 Miata – or Mazda Roadster in Japan – will continue to come with gasoline engines🇧🇷 According to inside sources, the manufacturer’s traditional game will be built around the SkyActiv-X engine, including a few features of hybrid technology or electricity.
If this may be good news for people who don’t like noise and smoke, that desire will come at a cost. Unlike the previous SkyActiv-G model, Mazda will not offer a SkyActiv-X with a capacity of less than 2,000 cc, which means that the price of the MX-5 could go up – a bad move for the Japanese car, historically a cheap roadster. in the US with 1.5 engine options. In any case, one manual gearbox must remain an option, even to suit the car’s target audience.
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The latest SkyActiv-X engines are equipped with a lean hybrid system that slightly reduces CO emissions.two🇧🇷 In an interview with Autocar, Mazda’s head of projects, Ikuo Maeda, spoke about the problem faced by the manufacturer to keep the MX-5 alive: “We want to find the best powertrain to maintain the weight of the car, but due to different needs and preferences, we need to explore several options [de motorização]🇧🇷
In addition, Maeda emphasized that the next MX-5 should be a car that “people have without worrying about being ecologically correct”.
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Technically, in fact, a sports car like the Miata, built on the basis of lightweight architecture, has become impossible in the face of the modern electrification process. Just to give you an idea, the MX-30, the current SUV produced by Mazda, uses a lightweight 35.5 kWh battery, but still weighs 500 kg more than the latest version of the MX-5.
However, Mazda has not yet released information on when it will launch the fifth generation MX-5 Miata. Given the long gap between each model generation, the new configuration should hit the market around 2024. The last version came out ten years ago.
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