But because the Miata's roof mechanism gets the car's roof back up a full 5.1 seconds quicker than the second-place car, the Mazda gets a serious advantage off the line for the actual drag race.

A contest between a 1,001-hp Lamborghini and a 181-hp Miata can be made fair. I had an interesting realization during Motor1's inaugural Cool Car Cup test—you can floor the throttle in a ...

This greatly improved the car’s aerodynamics (the Eco Speedster had a drag coefficient of just 0. ... For comparison, the equivalent Mazda Miata (the second-generation NB model) weighed 2,348 ...