Mazda MX5 special edition | best roadster on the market?
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- Опубліковано 1 вер 2019
- The special edition Mazda MX5 has a few upgrades but never strays too far from the stuff that makes it a great car to drive.
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I love the simplicity of these. They have aged well over the last 30 years.
Any generation will give you the best drive
I love my mk1 had it for 10 yrs now and never let me down, over 360k kms and still going strong, cheers from new Zealand
Have mk3.5 MX5 . Love it . Eight years old and still not a rattle. Light weight ,excellent handling and enough power to put a big smile on your face.
I’m fortunate enough to have a BMW M5 and an MX5. If it’s fun you’re after (without losing your licence) the latter is the clear winner. B
I'm obsessed with the miata ND. I cant stop watching videos. I need one 😭😭
Funnily enough, in the 2 years I've had my 2017 Mazda 3, I've never once needed to use the touchscreen. The controls being down by my left hand become second nature & the system works fine 99% of the time. I'd hate to move to a touchscreen, the tactile buttons are way better.
I love these things - great review as ever! Love the enthusiasm!
I hope your wife is recovering/is doing well
I had my NC roadster for 14 years with no faults at all - brilliant. I replaced it with a new ND last year (2021) and that car is even better!
What a great review. Made me smile almost as much as my own RF!
Blue diamonds, green clovers , orange Miatas! Bought my first 3 months ago . Love the 30th but couldn’t see spending almost 15,000 more for it . I got the cheapest one I could find, no options. Looks like some nice roads there for it there, Beautiful country! I just moved to the south west U.S. and can’t wait to do some exploring. Great video, I enjoyed it , thanks.
My mate had an old one and let me borrow it loved it great review as ever bob 😉😎
Cheers Neil!
Love the Irish brogue! “It’s a beautiful little ‘ting!”
Absolutely brilliant review
Their relatively affordable little sports cars, with few, if any unnecessary and expensive options, that drives the price through the roof.
They give a great driving experience, have a manual gear change that's recognised in the driving industry, as being one of the best there is, but above all else, their reliable.
Love the MX5
Me too!
I daily drive my 2017 MX-5 including school drop off and grocery shopping, works well if you have 1 child
Love the car. Nice review. It would have been sweet to see the engine; ) Thanks for the video.
Great review Bob. Next time can we actually see inside the boot.
Sorry, I forgot the clip where I show nthe inside of the boot!
16Club owner here. Amazing vehicles. Had a Viper and a 911 recently. Wanted a dedicated AutoX car. The ND1 is just stellar, tons of fun, the ND2 must be that much better. Drove it 13 plus hours back home after taking it to Tail of the Dragon in Tennessee. No sweat. Find a bad review on one of these, go ahead, I’ll wait. I haven’t seen one. Thanks Bob always a good review.👍👍😎😎. Scotty Kilmer👎🏻😂😂
I have one (2017) love it👍
I love Mazda too- the distributor in Ireland are a bit crap unfortunately. Should be much higher up the sales charts than they are
Seen one of these in a Mazda showroom in Tallaght would love one but need a 5 seater hatch 😔, Fanta Exotic Orange I called it and the man in the showroom laughed at me good name for it he said 😂
The original roadster and still the best. I regularly see 15-20-year-old MX-5's on the road and I think the reason for that, aside from them be able to run forever, is because that new rear end looks like a Fiat from the '90s. The front end is gorgeous but how often do you stay sitting in front of one of these on the roads? Mazda should have thought about that.
Who cares about the bloody infotainment!🙈🙉 The most important is how the car looks, drives, reliability👍😎
Keep an eye out for scotty's gray
Celica Bob! If he catches up with you he may ring that bell with your face!
Chick Magnet.A colleague had one, I got a lift, could not fit a laptop bag in the boot so I had to hold it on my lap.
Scotty Kilmer dig 🙌🏽💯🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
rajjy1976 yeah not sure that was necessary?! As far as i know, car companies dont pay Scotty for reviews; some companies send him tools & gadgets and things to review and he gives his honest opinion about them and he even gives some of that stuff away; Scotty is awesome, he pumps out a lot of informative content for free!
I own this car and I also owned an RF before that. I don't think it is annoying that the touch screen is not active while driving. I wouldn't want to touch it anyway while on the move. I am using the swivel wheel. Overall I actually think that the infotainment system is good. I am using Android Auto, never had a problem. I am using voice control for navigation and to play songs on UA-cam Music.
How to insure sport car in Ireland? :-)
FIAT will be with more torque 1.4Turbo petrol
How tall is Bob? Handy to know as I'm 6ft and worried if I'd fit!
come to the UK they are only £29k!! :)
Hi, which camera or tool did you use for that 360 degrees effect please? Thanks
It’s just a GoPro on a gimbal, no effects all in camera
@@BobFlavinVideo i thought it was something like this www.insta360.com/product/insta360-onex/?profile=ads&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIl6OQirPN5AIVxLHtCh0zLwvdEAAYAiAAEgJRJ_D_BwE
Did the coffee mug come with the car?
No, it’s the same colour scheme but a couple of years older.
Hey Bob, the car is absolutely beautiful, but, does the car worth the money? You didn't mention it (or at least, I didn't notice).
I have one, it absolutely is
10:30 on is MX-5 ownership in a nutshell!
This or the GT86?
i want an electric car like that with 300 torque and clean pipes.
Too bad Irish dealers wont import 2.0 litre versions. I had to get mine from the north.
Yup, I'm getting an ND2 2.0 this week. They're very hard to come by over here. The high road tax puts people off I think. 80-90% of them are the 1.5
I think the hard top looks better.
I’m not interested in medical warnings during an automobile review.
If you want to save the planet never travel anywhere. Otherwise buy an MX-5 and enjoy the journey.
I will never know... With 6'3" I don't fit. Have to live with my NC...
I'm 6ft 1 and I fit
Bob Flavin comfortably?
This is pretty old news, its been out for quite a while.
You've seen the date on the video right?
Hi Bob
The Fiat 124 Spider is a much better car as it has developed the MX5 on and has classic lines and Italian design.
Warm regards
Richard
My friend's fiata burned all it's oil on a canyon drive after autocross.... Unreliable.
Isn’t it a turbo boosted engine too?
@@John05636 No. It's the Skyactiv-G 2.0L. Naturally Aspirated. Goes up to 7500 RPM. Pretty damn nice engine.
@@John05636 Yes - Garrett Turbo
Is it me...or is everyone who tests this car is 7 ft. Tall...WTF..I am 5' 10. You
I’m 6 ft 1 so only 3 inches taller
That is the result of EU protectionism.
Its suffers from the hairdressers car image great car though.
I don’t know of any hairdressers that can afford a two seat roadster, they all drive Ranger Rovers these days
James Daly that's pretty old now bro..
James Daly 🖕🤡🖕
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@Baked Belgian Waffle
Its a petrol heads car. For me especially the 1st now the 4th gen.
As for Clarkson, he loves the mx5
"Everyone in the world agrees with me" means, "no one agrees with me." The MX5 is a weak piece of absolute shit for the masses. The Jag F-Type does 0-60 in less than half the time and out-handles the crap out of the ancient, lousy Miata. Some say the McLaren cabrios are better than Jag's but they are not, they sound almost as bad as the MX-5 and handle poorly. The MX-5 is OK for the money, but in the high $20Ks is hard to justify against any old econo shitbox. The new headlights are ugly.
How much money is an FType?
@@BobFlavinVideo
A 2014 V8 S (dynos around 560 HP) with a 7Y/100K Jaguar CPO bumper to bumper warranty still in affect with about 15K miles would run you in the high $20Ks as a final sale price. Check Jags national CPO database.
Are you talking about US prices? The review is Irish and prices here are wildly different. I agree the Jag is faster and noisier but they are in two completely different classes
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I'm talking about Jags official website where they list every CPO car with the asking price (so subtract 5-10%). CPO cars run about $5K above market, so subtract anothet $5K for a normal dealer or private seller.
I know they are in different classes. One is the world's best sportscar with a fire-breathing supercharged V8 using all-forged internals that casually boosts to over 700HP for ~$1000 (easily under 3 secs to 60 mph), the best exhaust note in automotive history, superb user selectable handling, a top-tier sublime and gorgeous luxury interior made of hand-stitched premium hides coating the whole dash, doors, and seats, all aluminum interior knobs and most switches with knurled rubber grips, and a telescope-mirror 15 mil paint job. The Miata has cheap metal doors inside and out, garbage orange-peel 5 mil paint, and a rubberband engine that would struggle to cut your lawn.
The Jag is completely silent inside at an effortless 1200 RPM 70 mph cruise, and top down it is calm, quiet, and wind turbulence-free. 8th is geared for 325 mph producing 31 mpg. Or, give it a quarter inch of pedal and the tires light-up in 5th gear or lower, and it's glorious roar outright embarrasses any Ferrari, Lambo, Vette, Audi, Porsche or shit-sound McLaren.
We're talking about the greatest all around sportscar of all time, vs a POS Miata. Like all things quality, they cost less, not more. That's why rich people buy quality--because they're cheap bastards.
Matt did a sensational review of a 2015, which is definitely the year to have. He explains why:
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dt5SZVLnywhQ&ved=0ahUKEwiNp-G68OrkAhWOy4UKHS0ZDxoQo7QBCCkwAA&usg=AOvVaw1MMQl11apCPM2Cbq8-pcgw
Skip to 7:45.