Bindon

hahaha dom, thats a glorious intercooler.


must have big inter-tuubes

DOMINION

^And big turbo too! lol

Kari

Ugh.. being a miata driver myself, I have to say that I hate the new look. :\

04 ftw~

zoom44

hmmm it screams mini cooper to me

DOMINION

^How dare you!

Rootski

iTrader: (1)

my god what have they done

DailyDriver2k5

Not bad , not great, obviously its a photoshop, some tweaks and I think it will be a sharp looking roadster.

JRichter

The current one has a simple, roadster type front end which is true to the original Miata concept and could easily be sold as is for another 4 years or so. This rendering is over styled, butchered (like a bad nose job) and flat out ugly with the black plastic bar and three slots. Hopefully the actual MX-5 won't look anything like this.

ATL-GP

Front end kind of reminds me of an Eclipse

9291150

far as I'm concerned, they're transfering the wrong RX8 part to the Miata...try the engine Mazda!

SayNoToPistons

iTrader: (8)

Looks like some one photoshopped a Mazda 2 into a Miata. 10 dollar says it's fake.

VikingDJ

That would be a nice option, but the 2.3 turbo in this badboy will be far superior in power. I personally can't wait to see what comes out of this. There's no reason for the MS Miata not to be a low mid 13s car. Lets hope they do it right.

yushinrt

mx-5 with rx-8 motor will be pretty cool

MP3Guy

Looks awful. Another refresh from Mazda that looks worse than the replacement. Hope it's just a photochop too.

lucifuge

Why is half the planet willing to accept that these are official Mx5 pics? Did these pics come from an official Mazda source? How many supposedly official pictures came out about each new WRX generation and turned out to be a photoshoppers' jaunt?

JRichter

Yeah, this isn't even close. I don't think Mazda would butcher their beloved MX-5 like that...

ASH8

The pics came from the same Japanese Mag that gave us the 99% correct pics of the new RX-8 a few weeks before the official ones....but you never can tell if they are just a photo-shopped exercise??

Betelgeuse

Looks less like a barbie car. Definitely more manly and aggressive. I like it overall.

fahrfegneugen

Not as bad as what Subaru did the Impreza.

The new look will grow on you though just wait.

DOMINION

The one in the Green pic looks angwy guppy the other one looks like a deer caught in the head lights LOL

EdwardsB

+1, I just saw a new sti and it made me want to cry.

CarAndDriver

I don't like the headlights on the current one so this one is an improvement in that regards. I absolutely hate the three mail slots below the badge!!!

rotarygod

I do like the RX-8 facelift. They got it right. The Miata facelift however is quite bad.

Rotary Soul

mazda's really pushing for a more aggressive look these days i guess, i don't think the designs are too bad but... for some reason they don't seem as "japanese" anymore, i dunno how to explain it. lost quite a bit of subtlety, but hey it coulda been worse. if they put in a renesis in that i'd take that up in a heartbeat.

RX-Hachi

I'm pretty sure the pics are from Best Car magazine. I was in Tokyo a week and half ago and saw the magazine and the article. While its true the pics they showed for the 09 RX-8 were on the mark, that magazine is notorious for slapping any old photoshop they can find and calling it a "scoop". I've seen so many pics from that mag over the last decade that are simply figments of someone's imagination.

Having said that, you never know, this one could be on the mark again. But I really have my doubts.