Mazda makes the MX5 more magnificent

ALL too few cars ever attain any sort of legendary status, vanishing into the mists of time — as they do — in a haze of exhaust fumes as noxious and unpalatable as the designs themselves.

And even those cars which do grasp the public’s imagination, generally come at a cost so prohibitive as to make them aspirational to Lotto winners only.

Occasionally, however, there comes along a genuine legend and 25 years ago that’s exactly what happened when Mazda unveiled the MX-5. In one fell swoop Mazda reinvented the two seater open top roadster concept that had once been the preserve of a host of long since vanished British companies such as Austin Healy, Triumph, Lotus, MG, and others.