Next Gen Mazda MX-5 To Be Lighter By Using Carbon Fiber Throughout

The Mazda MX-5 should continue to get even lighter in future generations, with downsized three-cylinder engines likely to power them.

The current, fourth-generation MX-5 was smaller and lighter than the car it replaced. While MX-5 programme manager Nobuhiro Yamamoto has said the MX-5 is unlikely to get smaller in the future (a fifth-generation car won’t arrive before 2021), it should get lighter due to the increased affordability of lightweight materials such as carbonfibre.
 

MDarringer - 7/22/2016 3:02:03 PM

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So they are going to make it more expensive so it sells even less?

carloslassiter - 7/22/2016 6:07:38 PM

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No windshield either, apparently.

MDarringer - 7/22/2016 6:46:49 PM

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That saves weight and creates more balance. Knowing Mazda, they will put in a much smaller engine too so as not to scare the horsepower-phobic geriatrics that buy Miatas.