RX-8 hardly Mazdas elite anymore...
 

Okay so the Mazdaspeed 6 came out with obvious better performance numbers than the RX-8 regardless of weight. Now Mazda decides to take our last piece of identity. Styling. All we've got now is our rotaries. I'm kinda pissed to say the least.

We thought it wouldn't be, but it seems to be official.

http://users.sdsc.edu/~antoine/NC_pics/DSC_5077a.jpg
http://users.sdsc.edu/~antoine/NC_pics/DSC_5079a.jpg

The lovechild of a 8 front and a Miata Bottom. Couldn't agree with you more.

That new miata is fantastic :)

Thats a photoshop right?

The new Miata hasnt been revealed yet has it?

Read all the details here:
http://forums.dfwmiata.com/viewtopic.php?p=21120#21120

It seems to be in German, and I think it may have been revealed to the German auto press.

Like I said, I'm pretty pissed. I wonder how G35C owners would feel if the Sentra came out in a 2 door version that looked like a mini version of their car. Or if Honda released a 23 thousand dollar car that looked alot like an S2K...

WTF? Even the rims look the same!!!

Dissapointed for sure as a 8 owner.

The hood is round at least instead of triangular. The rear is definately miata. Those are our wheels though.

Oh well, at least its the best looking miata to date.

I do like those rims on that dark colored car that is half cut off (bottom picture).

I have seen those before - What are those?

ugliest taillights ever.

I don't know about you, but I still think it's better to have an RX-8 than this car - I mean, with this new MX-5, you are pretty much saying "My car's front-end is exactly the same as an RX-8, but to all but the very-trained eye, the back-end is barely discernible from any other miata. So, I have no originality."

:shrug:

And while the styling is no longer proprietary to the RX-8, I still can't see a super-compact roadster being the flagship over a sports car that stands out from all sports cars as "the only true sports car with a back seat and 4 doors."

Hmmm after staring at the tail lights for a second I think this may be a chop

That hood sucks.

The article says it will have an engine placed in the middle of the car (no idea what the english word for "Mittelmotor" is, but the statement is probably nonsense because because a "Mittelmotor" is usually placed directly behind the front seats, which doesn't seem to be the case here) and it will be available with a hybrid engine (now that's interesting).

Looks like a technically redefined Miata with RX-8 styling elements and of course we're still elite, rotary engine in a four seats sports car with suicide doors. ;)

No need to be upset imho.

Edit: Btw, which newspaper published that article?

hy guys I searched and i found a totally diferent car.

http://www.miata.net/news/priddy_2006.html

i dont know if its photo shop or anything , but thats wath i got when i searched for it.

I can't really tell because it is a scanned page from a magazine, but I think there is a definite possibility it is photoshopped, too.
the entire car is shiny, but the hood and fron't bumper aren't reflecting light like the rest of the car.
It might just because it was scanned though.
And a miata isn't much different in price than the rx-8 anyway.

I guess that's not a chop if the article is from a real newspaper - it looks like the typical "Autobild" article and the plate (LEV for Leverkusen) is typical for Mazda promotion shots. The MX-5 logo looks pretty realistic too.

Holy crap! you're right, it is.

And a dang good one. Check out the small "top up" version - it is the same pic as the big top down one - which has had a "driver" pasted onto the windshield, and the wheels radial-blurred to look like they are moving!

"Mittelmotor" would probably be mid-engine - and that's not necessarily behind the front seats. Anything with the driveshaft (or is it center of gravity?) between the axles is "mid-engine", and that includes the RX-8.

First, thanks for the translation! But in german "Mittelmotor" is a term that is used for cars like the Porsche Boxter or Acura NSX for example. Technically mid-engine is between the axles, that's correct. But the RX-8, for example, isn't referred to as "Mittelmotor" in Germany.

I think this is from Autobild Magazine?

That pic has been floating around the web for years. Ive even seen that pic labeled as the next RX-7

I think the driver's side mirror gives ty away as being a photochop; It looks odd.

I'm not buying it. That pic is a chop IMO.

I don't care what Mazda does. I love my car and happy with its capabilities. There will always be faster, cooler cars no matter who manufacturers them.

My glass is half full.