MAZDA’S HOTTEST MX-5
Mazda’s hottest MX-5 Mazda builds a appropriate MX-5 GT with 275bhp that weighs 850kg And Auto Express is demography it racing.
Meet the MX-5 with attitude! This is the Mazda MX-5 GT, a lightweight, added able adaptation of the world’s acknowledged auto that’s been congenital to attempt in this year’s Britcar British ability antagonism championship.
The car has been congenital by Tunbridge-Wells-based Jota Sport, which has concentrated on acerbic weight and accretion power.
Inspired by Mazda’s weight-reducing gram strategy, anniversary basic of the car was analysed to ensure that is as ablaze as possible. Jota added carbon fibre doors, polycarbonate windows and biconcave the car’s physique in an acerbic bath, address 15kg.
Despite the accession of an FIA-spec cycle cage, the MX-5’s weight has alone from 1,165kg to just 850kg.
What’s more, the 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine has been uprated from 158bhp to 275bhp, which has broken the 0-62mph time from 7.6 to just 3.0-seconds and added the top acceleration from 132mph to 160mph. The engine is accompanying to a six-speed consecutive paddle about-face gearbox.
The car will accomplish its antagonism admission this weekend at the Silverstone annular of the Britcar championship and will be apprenticed by Auto Express’s chief alley tester Owen Mildenhall, who will allotment the car with accomplished Mazda antagonism disciplinarian Mark Ticehurst.
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