30 years of the Mazda MX-5

The MX-5 celebrates its 30th birthday but like the rest of us, the world’s most popular roadster just keeps getting better with age, writes Geraldine Herbert It is now forty years since an American motoring journalist named Bob Hall suggested to Kenichi Yamamoto, Mazda’s head of research and development that what Mazda needed was an affordable two-seater roadster. A fan of British Sports cars of the 1950s and 1960s Hall had long...