The Mazda MX-5 is the roadster that has won the car of the year award for 2016 and at the same time it has won another award for being the best car design of the year. It has won both awards by beating number of cars and models across the globe.
The fourth generation Mazda MX-5 was nominated as the best open top car prior to the overall awards nominations. Why Mazda MX-5 was selected as a car of the year award and afterwards it won the award as well. Let’s have a look at the several good and several bad points of the model.
The 2016 Mazda MX-5 claims exceptional driving dynamics, the class leading Mazda SkyActiv engines, quite solid performance, good fuel efficiency and, possibly most significantly a level of response to the push of the throttle pedal and “feel of joy” that is absent in many up-to-the-minute sports cars.
Mazda has reviewed the roadster’s building blocks and in the fourth generation it has been offered in the compact body style and more suitable for the taller drivers this time. Apart from these good features, it still has some negative points that can kill the sales of the MX-5 in the UK.
Mazda has used a kind of close source system for its roadster and left it unchangeable without Mazda Connect. Yes! You cannot change any features without Mazda Connect.
Although the MX-5 is a perfectly designed and balanced car that delivers more smile than any roadster of its class, it is more reliable, perfectly designed and cost effective car that has a massive customer base as well.
Finally the MX–5 Roadster has managed to win the world car of the year award in the UK by the team of more than 40 car experts and they have selected the MX-5 in two categories and it has won two titles at the same time. It is not only the world car of the year but also it has won the world’s best design of the year.
The Audi R8 has won the best performance car of the year while the BMW 7 series has won the best luxury car of the year. There is a great system of reviewing the cars and accessing them prior to the launch of the model and the two-seat roadster was gifted the overall gong by a panel of expert judges.
The MX-5 has won the title by beating the world’s top models and pushed them into the runners up list such as the new Mercedes GLC SUV and Audi A4. This was not the end; it additionally took the award for quality vehicle Design, and won the title by beating the Jaguar XE and Mazda CX-3.
The brand new Toyota Mirai FCV hydrogen fuel cell vehicle was awarded great new automobile, even as the BMW 7 series took the gong for luxurious automobile. The performance cars were also considered in the awarding season and the performance car of the year is the new Audi R8, which beat out the Mercedes-AMG C 63 and Honda Civic type R.
World car of the year was founded in 2004 through a worldwide crew of automobile journalists, and the judging panel consisted of seventy three journalists from 23 different countries and representing their nations.
The other finalists for World auto Design of the year were the Jaguar XE and Mazda CX-3. Nominations for each category are given by a committee of automobile journalists from around the world. Previous winners incorporate the Mercedes C-class and the all new Audi A3.
“What a distinguished honor, to have the Mazda MX-5 named both World car of the year and World car Design of the year,” said President and CEO, Mazda North American Operations, and Managing executive, Mazda Motor Corporation. “As our iconic MX-5 roadster strategies one-million models of creation, this award is proof that it is as younger, vibrant, enjoyable and important as ever, and proof that each Mazda looks as brilliant as it drives, and drives as totally because it looks. Even as I receive this award on behalf of the manufacturer, I do so representing every Mazda employee, retail partner and patron worldwide who has ever felt the joy of riding a pure roadster.”
Ikuo Maeda, Mazda’s executive Officer and supervisor of the Design Division, said, that he is very proud to be given this award, he also believes that this award is a proof that the Mazda roadster designs can connect with humans all around the globe.
He further added that the new-iteration lineup has been designed below the KODO design theme which goals to bring cars to existence, and we’ve constantly refined the eccentric entity about its forms.
Mazda is a proud Japanese car manufacturing company and he said that they are determined to continue improving the designs on the new vehicles and it is not a simple thing to change the design every year, it poses costs.
The fourth-generation MX-5 is the sixth model in Mazda’s new-generation lineup of automobiles offering the entire variety of SKYACTIV technology and KODO-Soul of drive design. Launched globally in 2015, the Mazda MX-5 has positioned the needs with consumers due to its vastly lowered curb weight, human-established design and “Jinba-ittai”.
The brand new MX-5 has won over 30 awards to this point, together with 2016 UK car of the year and 2015-2016 car of the year Japan. The retractable hardtop variation of the model, Mazda MX-5 RF, made its world optimum debut on the big apple international Auto show.
