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The next Mazda MX-5 will be smaller and lighter than the current car in an attempt to replicate the spirit of the original, according to Mazda insiders.

The firm’s R&D team is working on making the new car as light and compact as the first MX-5, which was launched 20 years ago. A Mazda source described the current car as “just too heavy”; with a 2.0-litre engine its kerb weight is 1098kg, compared with the original’s 970kg.

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Turbo MazdaSpeed MX-5 !!!!!!!!

Hooray sounds like a brilliant policy. Lighter smaller better just hope they can do it and still comply with all the ever more stringent crash regs that seem to lumber us with larger lardier less responsive cars.

Sounds good! I wish there were more cars in this class. Fiat (Abarth) were mooted to be working on a new Barchetta. Now that they have a fantastic 1.4 engine (the turbocharged multiair), I hope they go ahead with it.

Excellent, new lighter weight!  It's only taken the motor manufacturers around ten years to realise that power isn't all!

I hope this isn't going to be a turbo engine they use though - a supercharger would be much more in keeping for throttle response with the original concept.  That said, I'd prefer it to be a high efficiency normally aspirated engine!