Proof You Can't Ruin This Car // 2019 MX5 Miata RF Review 

Yes and 30 years later the Miata continues to be the only affordable roadster. (The Fiat version doesn’t count.) To put it another way, without Mazda, there would be no modern affordable roadster.

Well the British hated it. They thought it was a ugly Japanese initiation of their British roadster. Google the top gear reactions to the car, it does not age well lol

@@johntechwriter Some would say S2000, the mentioned MR2 and second hand Z3 and Z4 and probably the TT.

@@matthiasschuster9505 Only Z4 and TT are available today and they are not comparable. Neither offers a manual transmission.

Thats funny, I have a BMW Z4 with almost 200,000 miles on it. Daily driver. M54B30

Those two should make a video collaboration!!

So your medical insurance paid for it?

That's a good tip to convince my wife 😉

Congrats! 🎉

This is my dilemma. It’ll be my daily car and i drive on highways with traffic and not just twisty roads on the weekend so idk what to do. I don’t want the auto to sap all the fun

@@ValFinale get a test drive in an auto 2.0 litre and try the sports switch out, it's impressive.

Hahaha I was laughing so hard

Those heated seats would kill anybody with piles.

Love that smile 😊

you mean son?

Robin, that’s Sarah’s line. Watch the video...

Say hi to your father 😀😀😀

@@Robin-ic7sy I see your intent

Mauricio Starosta 2020 club owner. Brembo bbs Recaro. Previous 2004 Mazdaspeed owner. I wish I bought the auto. Paddle shift not that bad. The car has no torque, Needs an auto. Constantly shifting. Wear your ass out. Drove both. Test drive was fun with stick. Real world and traffic and stop signs. Auto is better. Car needs a turbo. More torque. Probably sell it. Buy another corvette. Mazda needs to be be around 250 -300 hp. To be a 21st century car. Like my old Mazdaspeed better. Just my opinion

Did you hate the automatic part or RF part?

Alexander Huang the automatic. This car is meant to be driven with a manual transmission. It's 1 of the best manuals you can get in a car. The RF is not bad, in fact I'd love if Mazda made a coupe! The car just excudes driving pleasure.

great move soft top only way to go

@@KB-Riderwithabeard I would love the manual. But I live in southern California where traffic is constantly bumper to bumper. I would get so frustrated having to stay in 1st and 2nd gear. With automatic I can just rev and brake as much as I want.

Double FotyFo just drive really slowly on first gear

Nice bit of info on the soft vs RF. I'll try both, but already leaning towards the soft top! Did you end up doing lowering brackets? How was it?

Elaborate. I have an automatic 95 M Edition, it’s been an amazing car, it’s been great I would definitely get an automatic ND.

@@dinocat7490 Fine I always respect individual preference

Bong Lim not necessarily a sin, my wife has always liked the Miata for the looks and it’s a convertible, she’s not into cars at all. I have an automatic 30th anniversary on order for her. If it was for me, the Miata would definitely be manual

People have all the right to be mediocre drivers and chose automatics.

😂😂😂 Either it actually has a decent sized trunk, or Sarah was a contortionist in her early days.

I guess, it might not be as fun but it do be faster.

@@mrpotat680 right but at the end of the day it's an MX-5. " what I really like about my slow car is it's a little bit faster but nowhere near as fun" People who order an MX-5 with an automatic should probably be institutionalized.

@@mrpotat680 the fun to me is in the drive and handling which is still the same

Tom H Say it with me. Disembowels pedestrians and will never pass 21st century design laws. Get over it.

Disembowels pedestrians? WTF? Seriously?????

DinoCat That’s why nobody does pop up headlights anymore. You can’t make them comply with pedestrian safety requirements. Sadly, they are from another era.

Richard Houlton Interesting.... luckily I have an S13 240sx with pop-up headlights, and a NA Miata, that’s good enough for me hahaha

All Miatas come with a telescoping wheel now, starting in ‘19.

Michael Berry little Sarah is too fun on the videos

Typically a rear drive transmission will have a fourth or fifth gear that's one-to-one and then the top gear will be an overdrive but the problem with that is that the the one-to-one gear is the most efficient gear in the transmission, all you're doing is you're hooking the input shaft in the output shaft together, so you don't actually send torque through any of the gears. So if that's the most efficient gear obviously that should be the one that should be used when you're cruising on the freeway trying to get good fuel economy. Mazda's engineers built the ND with a one-to-one sixth gear and then had to make the final Drive much taller so that the total gearing when you multiply the the primary gear ratio times the final gear ratio would be appropriate for the car.

The Miata is first and foremost a sports car. Why would the manual transmission have an overdrive gear?

It doesn't matter much where the torque multiplication occurs, the loss from it is the same when viewing the entire package. A 1:1 gear in a transmission still has gearing, there is still a frictional loss associated with that, I don't know of any modern manuals that aren't a constant mesh design. Since most drivetrain loss is frictional, what gearing is where, doesn't make much difference. That said, yes, power flow does go through a driveshaft which does have weight, spinning it slower at a given wheel speed will have a slight net efficiency gain. As far as why a sports car has an overdriven gear, well, pretty much all of them do, most have 2, some 3. The only other car I can think of with at least 5 gears that has a 1:1 top gear goes back 20 years to the E36 M3, there probably are a few others, but it's far from normal. Shit, all previous generation Miatas, even the older 5 speeds, had an overdriven gear, as does the 6 speed that is in the 124.

@@Dave-fx5zw Your definition of overdrive is not the definition being used by OP. The context that is being used would be over-geared, at least that's the way I interpreted it. Also, the 6 speed in the 124 is the NC Miata 6 speed.

I think some Vipers have 1:1 4th and then 2 overdrive gears. It can't even reach its top speed in 6th gear from what I've read.