According to Kunz, the MX-5 will remain on its own small sports car platform, and will not need to shift to a FWD ... rear-wheel drive, manually-shifted, gasoline-powered Mazda sports cars until ...

The Mazda Miata ... lightweight, rear-wheel-drive roadster with a strong reputation for simplicity and driving purity. The Mini Cooper, meanwhile, is a more practical front-wheel-drive hatchback ...

The company’s focus on the driver that we lauded in the Mazda 3 has now been implemented in the Miata. So the heavy but smooth shifter is ideally positioned, while the narrowly spaced pedals are ...

Standard features on the new trim level include a 2.5-liter naturally aspirated inline-four powertrain with a six-speed automatic transmission, front-wheel drive, Polymetal Gray Metallic paint ...

Click to expand... Yes, that is entirely my point. You claim that a RWD in snow tires vehicle will outperform a FWD vehicle in all seasons, "except for acceleration." The act of driving requires ...

Save for the MX-5 Miata and its RX-series sports car brethren, Mazda isn't well-known for rear-wheel-drive engineering. Instead, Mazda has become famous for its front-wheel-drive performance ...

The Mazda MX-5, known by many in North America as the Miata, is a two-door, RWD roadster introduced by the Japanese automaker in 1989. Since then, the Mazda Miata has seen four design generations ...