"Tired old stereotypes be damned. Do not head past this page and lightly dismiss the MX-5 as a 'hairdresser's car' while eagerly searching out the latest info on the new Focus Asbo RS here...
Why? Because you're not Jeremy Clarkson from 1992. Because you are capable of seeing this is the all-new MX-5 and that this little red car is properly, seriously important."
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"Of course, the previous two points [naturally aspirated engine and brilliant suspension] mean very little if the car weighs as much as a Range Rover, and the original car was light. So is the new one. Weighing in at 980kg, it de-blubbers the outgoing model by over 100kg and earns the right to be described as very, very light."
(...)
"All of which means there really is only one fly in the ointment: that image. Did I care a tiny bit some yobbo might think it's a hairdresser's car? Nope. There will always be those who would be satisfied if they drove a steamroller as long as it said Lamborghini on the back. And they, thankfully, will never get the MX-5. It isn't for them. It seems very early for me to find my Car of the Year. But I think I just did."
"I grinned harder than I have in a car for a long time." — Richard Hammond
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