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Mazda MX-5 reveals the mystery zoom-zoom

Long attempts to pose to buyers, which is the concept of zoom-zoom, was crowned with success only with the advent of a new model, which became the purest personification of the most zoom-zoom emotions. So now it makes no sense to explain something and put it on the shelves just sit down in Mazda MX-5, and this feeling will come by itself. Spend some time driving, and you will definitely immerse yourself in the thoughts about the unity of the driver and the car, starting to think that the creators of the second generation of this, without a doubt, the cult car are just for such emotions. So after a brief acquaintance with the playful roadster, it is possible at all without effort to recognize all the uncompromising zoom-zoom drive RX-8 or the indispensability of the BT-50 brutal zoom-zoom, next to which the new pride of the Japanese company Mazda will find their rightful place.
High honor to repeat the success of the first generation was for the creators of a very heavy burden. I had to make a new design, which would most likely reminded the old one, and all because to break the continuity of generations is still to sign in your own madness. So in front of the MX-5 will look at you with the same pretty look, the bends of the body will look in a new way, but on an old way, and the machine will still smile, thereby showing its full location. The rear also remained well recognizable as simple as possible, with a friendly view and stunning unity of rounded shapes. A pair of exhaust pipes that have retained in the voice of sports notes, as well as elegant stop signals with a pair of tearing in each of them are also harmoniously. There is something good in all this, very similar to the classic Japanese cartoon.
The most important thing is that all the emotions that this car was famous were managed to slip, even despite the fact that in the new generation a lot has changed. Check it on your own experience happened on the expanses of the Stavropol Territory.
Even despite the fact that the car grew up in size, on its visual lightness it did not affect at all. The presence of a folding roof, thanks to the desperate struggle for the rigidity and weight of the whole structure, did not flow into a serious increase in weight. The space of the luggage compartment, by the way, this innovation also did not affect, retaining all 150 liters. And the total mass of the new generation has become only 10 kg harder pioneer, which, by the way, was completed with an exceptionally soft roof.
The main magic of this car is that it is extremely clear and absolutely friendly. The only thing that can deliver trouble is that it is necessary to hold onto the wheel firmly, but for the driver MX-5, such comments look silly, because for the sake of this he sits down in this car. Bilstein sports suspension will allow MX-5 perfectly to hold onto the road, clearly opposing the active taxi and giving the driver the opportunity to enjoy driving. Some may seem that the dynamics for the rodster is not too rapid, and in the subsoil of the subcontrol space, it would be possible to determine the rotary engine or 2.3t from Mazda3 MPS, but these people are most likely not able to understand the meaning of the word harmony. In MX-5, the V-shaped levers in front and multilink are installed in front of the connoisseurs of unity and multilink. This tandem is perfectly combined with high-speed engine capabilities and rear-wheel drive, allowing the driver to feel the car at any speed.
At a speed of 160 km / h, the exciting spirit of landscapes fly past, and under the wheels there are kilometers of roads with good asphalt, all this is a stunning way in one great pleasure and only sand and small pebbles flying through the ballistic trajectories from under the wheels in front of the running machines In the salon, a little darken with this idyll. Finally, the sound of the stereo and a pleasant interior, which looks better in beige tones, rather than in black, especially in combination with the blue body of the body, helps to fully relax. Hands confidently wrap the steering wheel suspiciously resembling analogue from the BMW Z4, and the left foot struggles with a protruding cupboard, located next to the column, but all these are little things that cannot somehow affect the overall improvement. In general, of course, it is worth noting that the car is clearly not created for high growth people. It is quite difficult to find a comfortable position, but the number of adjustments to some extent smoothes this flaw.
Being in the cabin, the driver can take care of its safety in several ways. The most important thing, he can include the stove, if it is cool on the street, and he wants to definitely lower the roof. In other matters, it will be important primarily for the presence of side airbags, the placement of which was made possible due to an increased body width increased by 4 cm. In addition, it saves the tougher body. Naturally, the car is equipped with an ABS system, as well as a thickened stabilizer and increased friction differential. The latter feature is characteristic only for the top version, which is equipped with a 2-liter motor with a capacity of 160 hp. and torque in 188 nm.
At the rise of the Stavropol, this engine showed itself from the best side, especially without pretending to the total absorption of 50 liters of the contents of the fuel tank, destroying about 10-11 liters per hundred kilometers. As for the 6-speed gearbox, it does not differ in terms of the switching algorithm from the analog on Mazda3, for example. The maximum speed of the hero of Japanese cartoons, judging by the passport, was stopped at a mark of 215 km / h, that's just an experienced way, it did not appear absolutely no desire. The thing is that for this I would definitely have to close the rigid top and it is always an unpleasant moment for the driver of the cabriolet. You start feeling as if you had a favorite toy.
Widow blowing through the expanses of our favorite country, you begin to understand that such a car is able to deliver joy not only in local races on megalopolis, but also on long journeys. To find out this on your own experience, you can become one of the fighters for the implementation of the sales plan. This year, about 150 cars are planned to be implemented in the Russian market, which we will be presented in two options for configuration. The first this is the real driver of Mazda MX-5, which is given for $ 39 thousand 900, and the second explicit compromise with the contents of the wallet for $ 34 thousand 900.
If neither twist, but the difference of 5 thousand dollars can hardly be called a reason to abandon xenon, fog, sports suspension from Bilstein, beautiful 17-inch discs, climate control and seven speakers from the Bose stereo system. Especially if we take into account that this model is positioned as a second, and the third car in the garage of the future owner. In general, if you also start fanate from just those who discovered Zoom-Zoom emotions for you, then the salvation is concluded only in the top version. For complete happiness, do not forget to leave another $ 400, which will have to give a metallic color. And the car will certainly reward you with their abilities for such generosity.
 
 

 
Artem Baranovsky
autonews.ru.

A source: drom.ru.