ICONS: The simple genius of the Mazda MX-5 #228

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Cars, The Intercooler, Car, Motorsport, Supercar, Leisure, Automotive, Intercooler, Driving

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel tell the story of the Mazda MX-5, the world's favourite two-seat roadster. They look at the model's inception in the 1980s, the cars that inspired it and the few that have tried to dethrone it over the years, and analyse the reasons for its success with more than 1.2 million having been built over 35 years. They also explain in detail what an MX-5 is like to drive and how it has, or hasn't, changed over the decades.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.
0:05.2	Hi everybody. Welcome back to the Intercooler Podcast with
0:08.4	Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel, this episode 228.
0:12.0	Andrew, we're launching a sort of new occasional series,
0:16.0	podcast series with this one.
0:18.0	We're just going to call it icons,
0:20.0	because that does the job.
0:22.0	And each time we're going to pick out an iconic car and tell the full story of it.
0:26.8	Yeah and sometimes it may not even be a car. It might be an engine.
0:31.2	But something which has had a profound effect on the way that we view cars or the things
0:41.5	that power them or whatever.
0:43.0	Yeah.
0:44.0	And they don't always need to be very expensive cars.
0:46.0	As is the case with this one, we're starting with the Mazda MX5.
0:49.0	Yes.
0:50.0	And actually by the time this episode goes out our review of every single generation
0:57.8	the MX5 the written review and the video will be out on YouTube as well.
1:01.2	Yes. We had a great day didn't we an example of each of the
1:04.9	four generations on some great roads in Wales and it was so instructive driving one of
1:11.3	each back to back on the same roads that is how you learn what the
1:16.5	key differences are and what also the sort of fundamental similarities are you
1:21.2	can't do it without driving them all the same
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