Mazda MX-5 Miata - car classics

Mazda MX-5 Miata

Mazda Miata (which was known as the MX5 in the UK) looked like a Lotus Elan the 1960s. In 1989, she alone again revived the market of the sports car. As in Elan, it used a simple formula - perednemotornyy zadneprivodnoy car with a stiffer suspension, which differs ease. The volume of the engine of the first version was 1.5 liters, power 86 kW with 16 valves and slightly increased the maximum number of revolutions per minute compared with the model of the Mazda 323, on the basis of which it was originally this. In the bottom there was a steel monokokovaya the design of the engine/gearbox, as well as supporting frames of the rear axle and dvuhrychazhnymi pendants with wishbone front and rear parts. The mechanism of reechnoy transfer was well prepared, so drivers can easily and quickly straighten the car at the corners, though it was hard to be led astray, because the administration was well-balanced and neutral. The top of the car easily raised, it was required for this just press the two buttons, but for the fact that he came down, it was required to use two levers.