Spy Shots: ’06 Mazda Miata
Will the rotary come to the roadster or vice versa?
by Hans Lehmann/Hidden Image (2004-05-24)
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The next generation of Mazda's Miata, one of the world's best-selling roadsters, is due in late 2005 or early 2006. The first Miata came on the market in 1989 in Japan and later to the U.S. and Europe, where it became also a great success.

Here are photos of a first prototype mule of the current Miata's successor during tests at Germany's Nürburgring. To judge from the prototype's front end, the new model is likely to resemble the RX-8, with a styling only moderately like last year's Ibuki concept car.

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those pics are nearly worthless....

it looks like the spliced a rx8 with a miata, im not liking it. they ned to do something with that back end.

Test mule or not, that thing looks downright retarded with an RX8 front end slapped on a Miata body.

Test mule or not, that thing looks downright retarded with an RX8 front end slapped on a Miata body.

Need I say more?
well yes, I loathe miatas but when I heard about a stock turbo model, I sorta had to like the damn cars, putting a renesis rotary in it would only gain it more respect. I hope they do put the rotary in there.

oh and anotehr thing, its on a track and is a test mule yet it has a plate? huh

Guys, please. It's a hacked current Miata rear mated with a hacked RX-8 front end. The final version is not going to look like this.

Heh I saw some pics of a dudes Miata with an SR20DET swapped into it. Was clean as hell. Id rock one of those.

Guys, please. It's a hacked current Miata rear mated with a hacked RX-8 front end. The final version is not going to look like this.

Ya we know that, but that is not just a normal RX8 front.

And IBR, Hmmm could an Sr fit in there? Damn that musta hauled ass.

oh and anotehr thing, its on a track and is a test mule yet it has a plate? huhI think it's because the N-ring is a public road, no?

Ya we know that, but that is not just a normal RX8 front.

And IBR, Hmmm could an Sr fit in there? Damn that musta hauled ass.

It should. If they can get a Ford V8 in there, a V6 should fit just as easily.

I'm sure it'll be badass-- an RX7 convertible if you will.

Rotary won't go into the Miata. That's what the RX model is for. Maybe they are trying out an RX-8 convertible.

we can only hope not

It should. If they can get a Ford V8 in there, a V6 should fit just as easily.
an sr is an inline 4. It should have absolutely no probs fitting.

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thats definitely one of the first test cars they've run, cuz it looks like parts of it are held together w/ duct tape... but it looks like once it hits production it will be a really good looking and powerful car.

Yeah, I just hope the front end they use looks better than than what's on there now. :)

In the end its freaking ugly

the car should be wider....

and the front and back dont match front is a bit squarrish and back is just round...

but of course thats just the mule

we'll see what comes out later...