back to basics sports car or modern sports car

Mazda recently launched their new MX-5 which is one of the most basic form of sports car. It is aimed at providing real driving pleasure with maximum driver involvement while reducing all the fancy electronic aids. It is not the most powerful nor the fastest sports car out there but it is direction is very simple, bring the pleasure back in driving a sports car. Many car companies get caught up with adding more power, more electronic aids to keep the car on the road, more safety features and all this ends up with a lot more weight on the car than it really should have.

A pure sports car is a simple, sharp handling car with good brakes and lots of driver feedback. Mazda has kept true to its tradition and the new model is no exception. The car is light, agile, sharp handling and easy to drive. It only has 156hp on the 2.0 litre model. Sure, the car can do with a lot more power, like say 100hp to make it go faster but in true sports car sense it is not about going faster but the fun of driving it.

The new generation MX-5 is a big step up from some of the previous models as some of them have gotten a little too fat and too heavy. Similarly with sports cars made by other car companies all have ended up being too heavy.
This new MX-5 has plenty of room for enhancements such as turbo kits, brake upgrade, suspension upgrades and etc. Come 2016, the Tokyo Autosalon will have a flurry of new tuning products for this car. The Toyota GT 86 is getting old and people are getting bored with it so the introduction of the new MX-5 is timely.

At the end of the globe European car makers are making their sports cars more powerful and adding a tonne of driver aids to keep the car safe. Seems strange that they don't want to focus more on driver involvement rather than outright power. Yes, most guys would wish to have more power but how many can really handle the car with 500hp?! It definitely looks good on the sales brochure that the car has 500hp but in reality how many of us get to use all 500hp? The horsepower war has gotten out of hand and seems to be endless. It is just about bragging rights or all about ego?