In celebration of the MX-5’s 20th anniversary celebrations Mazda unveiled the MX-5 Superlight Concept at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show. Called the Miata in some markets the MX-5 is the world’s biggest selling roadster with over 800 000 worldwide sales since 1989.
The Superlight Concept is, as the name says, 995kg lighter than the normal MX-5. That’s incredible; it’s like removing the weight of ten grown men out of the car. Also there’s no windscreen so driving it would need some kind of headgear to deal with such nuisances as flies, bees, bugs, and of course wind.
Power comes from the 1.8-litre petrol that makes 93kW (126hp) and 167Nm of torque. Mazda says it would take about 8.9 seconds for it to go from 0 – 100km/h but the average fuel consumption is a respectable 6.3 l/100km.
Will they build it? I hope not.
