{"id":23745,"date":"2014-09-05T12:33:29","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T19:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/?p=23745"},"modified":"2014-09-05T12:35:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T19:35:38","slug":"2016-miata-mx-5-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2014\/09\/05\/2016-miata-mx-5-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Miata MX-5 Thoughts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m sure many of you have seen images of the new Miata MX-5. Some love it, some hate it. I for one really like the styling and am hoping that they put a peppy motor in it. How about a 180hp N\/A standard and the 2.3 Turbo motor from the Mazdaspeed3 in as an option?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23746\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata1.jpg\" alt=\"miata1\" width=\"1150\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata1.jpg 1150w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata1-200x104.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata1-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata1-1024x534.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23748\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata3.jpg\" alt=\"miata3\" width=\"2756\" height=\"2067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata3.jpg 2756w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata3-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata3-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2756px) 100vw, 2756px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23747\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata2.jpg\" alt=\"miata2\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata2.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata2-200x125.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata2-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata2-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How about some renderings done on what the car could look like with some aggressive styling?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23749\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata5.jpg\" alt=\"miata5\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata5.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata5-200x118.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata5-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata5-1024x607.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s one by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HugosilvaDesigns\">Hugo Silva<\/a> with RocketBunny styling. The RB cars require such aggressive wheel sizing, you&#8217;d need some serious power to move wheels that would fit a kit like this. You&#8217;d lose a lot of the driving characteristcs of the car but it&#8217;s nice to look at isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23750\" src=\"http:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata4.jpg\" alt=\"miata4\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata4-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/miata4-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>And one by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jonsibal\">Jon Sibal<\/a> that is more subtle but still has some flare to it&#8230;. pun intended \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait to see more updates on this and see what powertrain options they have lined up for it.<\/p>\n<p>-Danh V.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m sure many of you have seen images of the new Miata MX-5. Some love it, some hate it. I for one really like the styling and am hoping that they put a peppy motor in it. How about a 180hp N\/A standard and the 2.3 Turbo motor from the Mazdaspeed3 in as an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/2014\/09\/05\/2016-miata-mx-5-thoughts\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2302,478,2301,388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23754,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745\/revisions\/23754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.more-japan.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}