Test drive Mazda MX-5 (MIATA) since 2008 convertible
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The most popular class of the world can now be bought with a gun: a few more have been added to the countless many people of the same machine. Everything is in the air. It's all about the air. The whole meaning of the Rodster is airy, weighed, elusive, mobile. In it you find the more sense, the less you are looking for. He turns out the more advantages, the less you notice them. And people who do not make smart faces are quite a few people. And it's not about money. And the point is not even their quantity: among those who have no extra money to buy something useless, there were many sages who did not find extra money to buy something boring. And there were even more of them than among those who can spend something serious on the air. It was they who made Mazda MX-5 the most successful family in history.
In the rejuvenation, which was subjected to the current generation of the Japanese world relatives, the main thing for Russia is an automatic. Now you can not download the left rise in real estate of Moscow traffic, and if the main thing in the relative for you is walking in the fresh air, then a machine with a machine gun can make them both easier and easier. The main technical advantage of this unit is that it is available for acquisition. There is no point in considering other virtues under a magnifying glass, because there are few of them. It is pleasant that there are keys on the steering wheel, and it is surprising that Mazda was able to teach to work normally such a selection scheme that seemed obviously losing: still, even Porsche did not force the keys to the pusy, increase, to work humanly. And Mazda ergonomists did it.
If you want to not only walk, but also rush to the tail with a pipe, the possibilities of choosing cars with a pen. True, not all of them are available in Russia, since not all MX-5 configurations go to us. In general, Mazda Roadster is an excellent chassis. Simple and without venture, but honest and high -quality.
However, how many options for engine combinations (1.8, 2.0) and roofs (hard, cloth), so many (very!) Different sled characters in MX-5. Between 2.0, a cloth top and 1.8 is hard, all other combinations fit, and the range between them from a walking roll and a long boat, not too accurate and doing everything with a lazy and delays (all this is especially noticeable with a roof raised), to a light and accurate two -seater sport, on which in drift, and on the track, and in the mountains.
Choose the right thing is important. Important, but not the main thing, because remember, the pursuit of meaning deprives the relatives of meaning. The main thing in the family is not how he steer, but what is between his riders. If the transmission tunnel, then it will hardly have any chance, and controllability has nothing to do with it. But if something airy ... and the family screens on occasion can be transported by taxi.
The petals of choosing a machine gun work according to the principle of pulling a lot, not the left-right. For the first time, this approach was implemented so successfully that it makes control of an intuitive box: it is amazing, but you don’t need to get used to a non -standard solution at all.
Text Dmitry Sokolov
Source: Cars
