2014 ND Miata
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2014 ND Miata
http://www.torquenews.com/1080/mazda...014-mx-5-miata
1.3L Turbo?!
Anyone know how accurate this info is?
1.3L Turbo?!
Anyone know how accurate this info is?
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Nevermind, used my brain and the googles... Looks to be pure speculation, no hard facts.
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=454958
http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread.php?t=454958
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http://www.caranddriver.com/features...ta-future-cars
http://www.roadandtrack.com/future-c...14-mazda-miata
I worry that a 1.3l engine which is already factory turbocharged just to get to 160 HP does not portend well for the aftermarket.
Sidebar: Is it just me, or are the Scion FR-S and the Subaru BRZ the exact same car?
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Of course, it could just be Mazda blowing smoke to spur market interest.
I was pretty excited about the ND, but if it weighs more and has less ooomph than my '90, what's the point? I'll still go for a test drive though.
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SkyActive itself does not portend well for the aftermarket. My reading of SkyActive is that the stock engines will be in a much higher state of tune (with much lower "overbuilt" margins) when they reach our hands. All in the pursuit of fuel economy. The engine controls seem exponentially more complex than before. Other than increasing boost, there doesn't seem to be much an enthusiast can do to wick up a SkyActive engine -- and with the reliability margins cut thin, turning up the boost may not work out as well as it has in the past.
Of course, it could just be Mazda blowing smoke to spur market interest.
I was pretty excited about the ND, but if it weighs more and has less ooomph than my '90, what's the point? I'll still go for a test drive though.
Of course, it could just be Mazda blowing smoke to spur market interest.
I was pretty excited about the ND, but if it weighs more and has less ooomph than my '90, what's the point? I'll still go for a test drive though.
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I was actually being sarcastic when I posted that, judging solely on looks and the claim of a boxster engine, as I hadn't really done any research on the Scion model. I didn't realize that they are, in fact, built on the same platform. (The idea that Toyota and Subaru might actually form such a joint venture never even occurred to me.)
It seems that, in general, we are today at a precipice very similar to the one faced by the aftermarket in the 1980s, when weird, scary things like electronic fuel injection and computer-controlled ignition were becoming standard in most new cars, and it appeared that these technologies would spell the end of the hot-rod era.
And there may well be a darkness on the horizon, but I firmly believe that this, too, shall pass. Give it a few years, and the young 'uns will be wondering how we ever managed to make serious power out of our engines without direct-injection and such.