- Mazda MX-5 given Lifetime Achievement Award
- Accolade comes at Scottish Car of the Year Awards 2024
- MX-5 first launched in UK in 1989
- Lease the current fourth-gen car with Select
After more than three decades and four generations, the Mazda MX-5 has been handed a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.
The accolade was handed out at the 2024 Scottish Car of the Year Awards, where the world’s best-selling two-seater roadster had its name in lights.
The current fourth-gen MX-5 is expected to remain on sale until 2026, when it’s likely to be handed an electric powertrain.
But with Mazda promising the MX-5 ‘will never die’, it should continue to delight whatever is powering it.
Association of Scottish Motoring Writers (ASMW) President Alisdair Suttie said: “For 35 years, the Mazda MX-5 has been delivering thrills and driver engagement at a keen price. With more than a million sold, it really is Scotland and the world’s favourite sports car. Recently updated, the MX-5 is as brilliant as ever and hugely deserving of the ASMW’s Lifetime Achievement Award.”
He added that it’s ‘easy to live with and even easier to fall in love with, whether new or used, the MX-5 is a sports car you buy with your head and heart’.
Launched at the start of 2024, the latest MX-5 features a new LED headlight design that now incorporates the daytime running lights, while the rear LED lights have also been redesigned.
The eight-model range features four Roadster and four RF (retractable fastback) models with a choice of Prime-Line, Exclusive-Line and Homura trim grades. The Homura grade boasts lovely Recaro seats trimmed in leather and Alcantara.
Prime-Line cars are powered by the 132ps 1.5-litre Skyactiv-G engine, while Exclusive-Line can be chosen with either the 1.5-litre or the 184ps 2.0-litre Skyactiv-G engine.
As before, 2.0-litre cars feature a front strut brace, limited slip differential and Bilstein dampers as standard.
To date over 1.2 million MX-5s have been produced at Mazda’s Ujina plant in Hiroshima, with over 135,000 of these being sold in the UK.
Mazda UK Managing Director Jeremy Thomson said “When it comes to driver engagement, the current generation MX-5 has established itself as a benchmark sports car and we continue to offer one of the most exciting and satisfying to drive cars money can buy.”
Want to know more? Read our chat with the MX-5 Owners Club.
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