Not just discontinued it but killed its legacy in the country completely. A little while back, a Mazda MX-5 landed in my garage at work. No, it wasn’t my own MX-5, Sakura, but rather a white MX-5 RF on loan from Mazda SA as a press test unit. Those who … Read more
The automotive world is changing. Bit by bit, day by day, things are deviating from the car scene I knew growing up. Station wagons are the enemy, naturally aspirated engines are dying, and the engine as a whole is being phased out in favour of electrification. Worse still, the world … Read more
I started writing this post back at the beginning of 2019, a few short weeks after I bought an MX-5, and when the idea of turning Torquing Cars into a more personal publication was still in its infancy. It’s been on ice since then, but with the official refocusing of … Read more
We’ll forgive you if you’ve never heard of Mitsuoka Motors – they are after all a rather small automotive producer from Japan focusing on a rather niche market. They’re notorious for using other vehicles as a basis and turning them, for the most part, into retro British styled vehicles, reminiscent … Read more
Just how slow is 10km/h, and how long is 13 seconds? Well as it turns out the answers to those two questions are A- glacial, and B- about 3 years, or at least that’s how painfully long it felt when I decided to open the roof of the Mazda MX-5 … Read more
Mazda has today unveiled the updated MX-5 sports car ahead of the 2019 model year, with the biggest update being something Mazda MX-5 fans have been begging for – more power! The updates apply to both the soft-top roadster and hard-top convertible RF models. The 2.0-litre SKYACTIV-G petrol engine … Read more
The world has caught on to the latest trend of killing the combustion engine – electricity is the new hot thing, and why should the world wait? Not Mazda though, who seemingly missed the memo and instead have developed the next iteration of the petrol engine; a system set to … Read more
