brillo

It resembles the other pics that had a sudo RX8 front end to it. I like the look of this personally, better wheels would be ncie but this is a mule I'm sure.


http://forums.autoweek.com/thread.js...10402&tstart=0

shelleys_man_06

Looks good.

I wonder if Mazda is going to trickle down the look of the RX-8 onto all its cars.

Intrigue 8

i saw a pic in a auto weekly and it has the rx8 head lights.

shelleys_man_06

What if a 3rd gen. and an RX-8 had sex with each other?



Gotta love that royal purple. :D

epitrochoid

definately hiroshima...look at the faces!

Overport

where did you find that pic! it almost looks real!!

cgrx

I like the color

s13lover

Can't really tell too much, but the front end needs more of a slope to it.

Feras

iTrader: (1)

LOL! something addictive about their radioactive cars.

rlfletch

That is not just any mule. Look at the roll over bars, door handle and windshield frame, side view mirrors etc. What ever it is it's damn close to production.

moRotorMotor

Can someone please step in and correct me that they are NOT using the styling cues from our car, on the next gen Miata.

Feras

iTrader: (1)

they're using the styling cues from the RX8 on every mazda, can't find one of em that doesnt steal some aesthetic piece of beauty from the RX8, 6 has the same interior display, the 3 has the same steering wheel, they all have the same headlights and tailights, even the MPV.

moRotorMotor

I feel like the exclusivity of our 8 is no longer "special".

o0o0o

Yeah, it does "cheapen" the look of the car quite a bit. Fortunately nothing else on the market really out-does it right now in terms of design.

shelleys_man_06

Don't forget the look of the Mazda Axela (Mazda 3). Sometimes I could swear it was an RX-8 on the road.

Trickle-down effect guys.

Gord96BRG

I will - they're NOT using RX-8 styling cues on the NC Miata. Aside from perhaps corporate looking headlights (they came on the Mazda6 first, so they're not RX-8 cues), there will be extremely little resemblance. There's nothing in common at the back of the car, and the front fenders and hood are not at all similar. Aside from having the engine compartment intake below the bumper (which the Miata has always had, first oval shaped, then the Mazda 5 point opening in 2001, before the RX-8), although the shape of the opening on the NC will be different.

That prototype in the pictures is the real deal, the NC, the 2006 MX-5. It's body panels were pressed on the production fender dies.

Regards,
Gordon

VikingDJ

If the 06 Miata looks like the rx8 in any way, I may trade in rx8 for it in late 2006. The rx8 was my daily driver, but now it's my fun summer car. I always liked the miata, and depending how it turns out, I'll be there.

Rob Tomlin

Man, I can't tell anything from those photos. Seems like they kept it pretty well disquised to me.

shigginsrx8

it also cheapens the price of the car

zoom44

gord you have any idea of the time between the pics of your white test mule and these pics? they've been leaked only about a month apart but is that the real time difference? that seems pretty quick to be going from test mule to production stampings. unless they are parralel developments?

stangmatt66

rumor is, the next miata is supposed to resemble the ibuki concept car:

Don Vito

Gorgous! ^

Don Vito

Just wanna show you guys, i doubt its going to look like this.

nother one

djantlive

The spy photo looks like just like the current miata with pastic wrapped body. I can't tell difference

zthang

OOH ****....now that's hot. The front end of an rx8, and the roofline and rear fenders of an rx7...I'd trade my Z in for that if it had a turbo renesis anyday.