a cobbled-together MX-5 Miata. It was enough to revive the project within Mazda, leading to the RX-Evolv in 1999 (with a more fleshed-out version of the concept in 2000), and the final RX-8 ...

At the heart of what became the MX-5 was the longstanding appreciation of British models like the MGB. An American-led design team kickstarted the project at Mazda’s newly opened Californian studios, ...