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In what is now an annual tradition at Motor1, we’re kicking off 2025 by sending lots of emails to automakers to see what manual transmission sales were like the previous year. This gives us a look at the state of the manual in America, where it is certainly not the…

I had an interesting realization during Motor1's inaugural Cool Car Cup test—you can floor the throttle in a Lamborghini Revuelto without waking up its monster V-12. The Revuelto is a hybrid, with a motor for each front wheel, and another motor attached to the transmission. In its Città (city) mode, you get…

Welcome to Cool Car Cup. This test gathers the six best performance cars of 2024 and throws them into the Motor1 Thunderdome. At the end of some epic SoCal canyon roads and a day at the race track, a winner emerges from the dust.

There is a saying in the automotive enthusiast community which states, "The answer is always Miata."And it's apt, as the Mazda Miata is cheap, sporty, and offers the sort of fun that can be enjoyed by the newest of drivers, all the way to professional racers. It's why it's one…

As a former ND owner, I genuinely can't think of a reason why someone would convert a Miata for electric duty. However, someday, somewhere, someone will put the last drop of fuel into a car's tank. Then what? Unless synthetic fuels gain traction, which at this moment seems highly unlikely,…

Tom Matano was a little shocked when he first visited Mazda’s design studio in Hiroshima. He joined the company in 1983 to head up the California design studio at the newly formed Mazda Research of America (MRA). At the time, his colleagues in Japan were working on the second-generation FC…

Mazda stunned with the Iconic SP concept at last year's Japan Mobility Show. Not merely a preview for the next Miata, the Iconic SP shows a new direction forward for Mazda sports cars, while paying homage to the era-defining FD RX-7. In a recent Mazda-published story, the car's designer, Masashi…

Thanks to SEMA, the world now has a Mazda Miata with a twin-turbocharged Lamborghini V-10. The engine is sticking out of the hood, and the pop-up headlights are now turbos. That's downright inspiring, and we're here for it.

The ND Miata arrived like a lightning bolt. At a time when cars grew increasingly complex and increasingly large, Mazda’s fourth-gen roadster chose another path. This was a car far smaller and lighter than its predecessor, barely bigger and heavier than the original Miata of 1989. 

If you want to touch history, book a trip to Italy. Here, past and present are neighbors. Ancient relics and modern marvels dance cheek-to-cheek, reminding us that so much of what we cherish today was first discovered, cultivated and enshrined by societies that walked this earth ages ago. In a…

Production will be limited by time rather than the number of cars.