2011 Mazda MX-5 ’55 Le Mans’ Limited Edition

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Back in 1991, Japanese automaker Mazda fabricated history as the aboriginal Japanese automaker to win the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans. On the backbone of the Mazda 787B No.55 and apprenticed by the aggregation of Johnny Herbert, Volker Weidler, and Bertrand Gachot, Mazda’s ’91 Le Mans achievement served apprehension to the apple that the Japanese are added than able of actuality aggressive in the apple stage.

Twenty years afterwards their arresting victory, the Japanese automaker is absolution a bound copy MX-5 Miata, which they’ve appropriately billed as the ’55 Le Mans Edition’. Accessible alone in Switzerland, the appropriate copy MX-5 comes in four altered exoteric blush finishes – red, gray, white, and atramentous – with allegory contour strips that run the breadth of the abandon of the car. On top of that, Mazda additionally gave the car a fresh Bilstein sports suspension, a advanced strut bar, a bound blooper cogwheel (LSD), and a set of 10-spoke admixture wheels. Inside, Mazda dressed up the appropriate copy MX-5 with bespoke ‘55 Le Mans’ logos to go with a numbered applique to baptize its assembly number.

No achievement upgrades area accustomed to the MX-5, which agency that it comes with the aforementioned 2.0-liter agent that produces 160 application akin to a six-speed chiral transmission.

While it sucks that the ’55 Le Mans Edition’ MX-5 will alone be accessible in Switzerland, we can still considerately say that alike with a basal dress-up, the Mazda MX-5 Miata still looks appealing abuse good.