2009 Mazda MX-5 Superlight front view photos
Set to brilliant for Mazda at abutting week’s Frankfurt Motor Show, the abstraction has been developed as article of a altogether present to itself, adulatory 20 years for the accepted MX-5 sports car. The MX-5’s folding roof stand, aperture handles and avant-garde windscreen accept been replaced by a revised rear accouter with automated rollbars, bland door-skins and a dash-top that melds seamlessly with the bodywork. The MX-5 Superlight – as its name suggests – has been congenital as a abstraction for avant-garde failing architecture techniques. With no windows nor the weight of a folding roof, the MX-5 Superlight abstraction weighs in at aloof 995kg.
2009 Mazda MX-5 Superlight rear view
Bilstein suspension, Eibach springs and a 30mm lower ride acme should ensure a drive as activating as the car’s administration suggests. Motivated by the aforementioned 93 kW 1,8-litre petrol agent and five-speed manual of the road-going MX-5, a claimed 8.9 additional dart to 100km/h shaves a additional off the approved model’s time. Four-piston anchored calipers and cross-drilled anchor discs big abundant to crave a 50mm addition of the car’s clue sit abaft the aforementioned 17-inch admixture auto of the accepted MX-5.
Designed at Mazda’s European studios in Oberusel, Germany, the MX-5 Superlight is accepted to be a commemorative activity to bless the MX-5’s 20th ceremony this year. Mazda says the MX-5 Superlight is carefully a concept-only, but as a abstraction on convalescent weight abridgement beyond the brand’s range, the Superlight may be a assurance of things to appear from Mazda.
2009 Mazda MX-5 Superlight front view
Now you would apprehend that the guys at Mazda would bandy article absolutely appropriate beneath the awning of the Superlight, afterwards all this is declared to be a analgesic abstraction car for Frankfurt and an ceremony special. But abominably for all of us, they didn't. They saddled this abundant little car with a Euro-spec 1.8 liter 4 butt that produces 126 hp. I know... sad. With all the advance of a summer's breeze, performance... well, it suffers. 0 to 60 mph comes in a mini-van-esque 8.9 seconds
