Total MX-5 | Spring 2020
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
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