For reference, the 2022 MAZDA MX-5 Miata originally had a starting sticker price of $28,365, with the range-topping MX-5 Miata Grand Touring Convertible 2D starting at $33,365. Driving the Used
If you want to know just how much power you can make with what you’ve got (or what you’d like to have) it’s as easy as plugging a few details into our horsepower calculator below: The number of cylinders in your engine, The BASE* fuel pressure you will run (your fuel pressure at idle), *our calculator assumes a 1:1 rising rate fuel Measuring Up. We first wanted to quantify the value of the new engine on track. How would that bump from 155 to 181 horsepower feel? We transferred over all of our C Street-legal autocross parts–Koni dampers, Karcepts anti-roll bar, Good-Win Racing RoadsterSport muffler, Pagid Racing brake pads, 17x7-inch Enkei RPF1 wheels, and 225/45R17 Bridgestone RE-71R tires–and performed an alignment.
0-100 mph: 18.8 sec. Quarter-Mile Time: 15.1 sec. Quarter-Mile Speed: 90.1mph. Read this 2004 MazdaSpeed MX-5 Miata review and road test from the auto experts at Sport Compact Car Magazine.
With 167 horsepower and 140 pound-feet of torque, we were able to get the 2588-pound Miata to 60 mph from a standstill in 6.4 seconds and through the quarter mile in 14.9 seconds at 91 mph.
The 2004 Mazdaspeed Miata falls somewhere in between. Rated at 178hp and 166 lb-ft of torque, it offered buyers 36 additional horsepower and 41 extra lb-ft compared to the standard 1.8L four-cylinder engine. More importantly, with its beefier six-speed manual gearbox, and despite a 500 rpm redline drop (6,500 rather than 7,000), it sprints to
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