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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo
Post 'zoom-zoom' era Mazda are a joke, they're on the trajectory of Honda, which was another great auto manufacturer who drank the koolaid and tried to emulate white goods pioneer, Toyota but badly failed.
As far as their sketchy in house developed transmission is, typical engineers trying to reinvent the wheel and fix something there's no problems with, should have just used the 8sp ZF box and be done with it.
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Mazda tried to have it both ways. Deliver less and charge more. It's like a shrinkflated supermarket product going up in price.
In retrospect the ND MX-5 was really the first symptom of this, no attention paid to steering calibration at all, in a car that is meant to be all about the handling. Really big backwards step over the NC in all areas except kerb weight.
For what Mazda are charging it's hard not to justify stretching to a BMW.