RIP Mazda MX-5 2.0: The best fun engines left under £100k

The Mazda MX-5 1.5 is still a brilliant sports car, but what other affordable cars let you experience the joy of ICE? Sad news this week: the 2.0-litre version of the Mazda MX-5 is dead. It shouldn’t surprise anyone, because it had been cut from price lists on the continent a few years ago. Mazda doesn’t sell very many EVs, so every gramme of CO2 counts and those extra 13g the 2.0-litre put out over the 1.5 were 13g too many. The removal of the 2.0-litre isn’t as disastrous for the MX-5’s credibility as the circumstances that befell the Ford Puma ST a few years ago. The Fiesta ST on…

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