Total MX-5 Magazine

FEATURES
Mk4 buyer’s guide: The next ‘big thing’
It seems like only yesterday that the mk4 was launched, but four years on depreciation is making it a very attractive prospect

Going old school
Aussie John Poletti was a V8 devotee until a mk1 stole his heart: fitting it with Weber carburettors sealed their relationship

Mashed-up Miata
Give a bunch of engineers a budget of $500 and tell them to win races – what they did to a mk1 isn’t pretty, but it’s darned effective!

Doing it the hard way
Turbos are an easy and cost-effective way to increase power. Chris Crowther decided he wanted individal throttle bodies instead

Road Trip: Looking for Elvis
The Elvis Presley connection to the Isle of Wight isn’t simple to find, but our man Bennett did it

Readers’ rides: A jolly good Sport
To get more pizzazz from his mk2.5 Sport, Stu Townsend has fitted a turbo that gives him 205bhp

PRACTICAL MX-5
How To: Cure a juddery cover
The rear deck cover on a mk3 RC can judder badly: here’s how to sort out the problem on the cheap

Specialists: Racing Beat Europe
The UK importer supplying the cream of US tuning parts from Racing Beat and Good-Win-Racing

Our Cars: The Total MX-5 fleet
Big news: Michael Cleverely is stuffing a Ford V8 under the bonnet of his mk1. Yippee-ki-yay!

Q&A: MX-5 problem solving
Issues with the mk3 are starting to occupy a good deal of Michael Cleverley’s time these days

REGULARS
News
The MX5 Restorer is making a mk1-based Speedster to order, and a Portuguese company is making some cool seats

Competition
Everyone loves a pressure washer: thanks to Machine Mart you can win one

MX-5 Owners Club
The MX5OC always has loads going on and here’s a taste of what it has to offer

Insight
Some names crop up on MX-5-related social media all the time: we speak to a pair of prolific posters

Photo Booth
You take a cracking photo, we print it full-page