This Is The Purest Road-Going Mx-5 Nd According To Global Ambassador Nobuhiro Yamamoto

Glancing through Nobuhiro Yamamoto’s CV is plenty to convince you lot that he’s cutting his teeth doing go-fast Mazdas. After joining the Japanese carmaker inwards 1973, he worked on rotary engines culminating inwards their 24 Hours of Le Mans winning endeavor amongst the 787B inwards 1991. It was exclusively plumbing equipment that afterward that, he became the programme managing director for the MX-5 including the current-generation ND.

Now a MX-5 Global Ambassador, Yamamoto-san has weaved his magic n what he considers the purest roadster experience. Officially called the MX-5 Yamamoto Signature edition, they’re exclusively available inwards 1 country: Italy.

Because Yamamoto-san has ever believed that the MX-5 was all close existence lightweight together with nimble, he shunned the 2.0-liter engine inwards favor of a high-revving 1.5-liter. The 131 horsepower, 152 Nm of torque outputs may appear pedestrian but inwards auto that weighs only 975 kilograms? It’s only a minute off the 0-100 km/h times of its made-for-America 181-horsepower sibling.

The MX-5 Yamamoto Signature is exclusively available inwards Jet Black (the best coloring of the MX-5 ND according to Yamamoto-san) amongst the Mazdaspeed aero kit painted inwards redd. It also sports unique badging such every bit the Japanese word, Kan (feeling/sensation) along amongst the series pose out riveted on the bodywork together with on the rearview mirror. Oh, together with larn this: this especial edition resists the temptation of offering larger rims, too. Here, they’re 16-inch Enkei RPF1s amongst a cherry-red lip (they’re close 400 grams lighter than stock) amongst 205/50 Toyo R888R semi-slick tires.

With the powertrain already to Yamamoto’s liking, the changes hither are express to a brake upgrade (it gets the larger discs from the 2.0-liter models) amongst Brembo 4-piston front end together with Nissin bring upwardly brake calipers, stainless steel braided brake hoses, together with especially tuned Ohlins suspension.

Inside, the predominately dark subject amongst cherry-red highlights continues. Gray Alcantara and/or cherry-red suede is used to re-trim the steering wheel, armrests, gear shift, handbrake lever, together with middle console. Handstitched inwards Italy, the steering wheel’s execution is roughly the RX-8—another vehicle that Yamamoto-san was involved with. Even the dashboard panel didn’t escape scrutiny together with is at in 1 lawsuit trimmed inwards Alcantara together with features an embroidered signature of Yamamoto-san.

Now, if you lot mean value the MX-5 30th Anniversary Edition is, at 3,000 units already rare, the MX-5 Yamamoto Signature is fifty-fifty rarer. Only iv accept been made together with they’re priced at 37,500 Euros ( P 2.134 million) each.