’19 Mazda MX-5 Miata: Updates for the new year!

There’s absolutely nothing that compares to driving a ’19 Mazda MX-5 Miata. For the new model year, Mazda engineers developed a few great new features. Keep reading for details!

All of us here at Beach Mazda know the ’19 Mazda MX-5 Miata is a super awesome roadster. The new MX-5 is now quicker and more responsive. It aims to be even more appealing to drive. Of course, it adheres to Mazda’s Jinba Ittai engineering ideology. The ’19 Mazda MX-5 Miata now offers seventeen percent more power and better fuel efficiency than the 2018 model.

Updates

Here are just a few of the improvements for the 2019 model:

• Available brown soft top for MX-5 Grand Touring models
• New, standard tilt/telescoping steering column with 30mm of telescoping and 42mm of tilt range
• Also, new aluminum steering column to save weight versus the previous steel unit
• New standard rearview camera
• Newer available package options at each trim level
• Available Traffic Sign Recognition
• Available Smart City Brake Support low-speed automatic emergency braking

MX-5 Miata Sport

The MX-5 Miata Sport remains the entry point of the MX-5 Miata group. It’s offered exclusively with a black soft top. Other standard features include:

• LED headlights and tail lights
• 16-inch alloy wheels
• cloth seats
• dual power side mirrors
• power windows
• a 6-speaker audio system including headrest speakers
• Bluetooth phone pairing and audio streaming; two USB audio inputs; MAZDA CONNECTTM infotainment with a 7-inch monitor that features both touchscreen and Commander control functions
• a leather-wrapped steering wheel
• parking brake and shifter knob
• steering-wheel-mounted audio controls
• Mazda Advanced Keyless Entry.
• It can also be supplemented with the i-ACTIVSENSE Sport Package that adds low-speed Smart City Brake Support automatic emergency braking, Lane-Departure Warning and Blind Spot Monitoring with Rear Cross-Traffic Alert

Grand Touring & Club models

Building upon MX-5 Sport is the more luxurious MX-5 Grand Touring and MX-5 Club models. Both are offered as soft tops as well as in MX-5 RF—retractable fastback—configurations.

MX-5 Grand Touring upgrades from the base MX-5 Sport with:

• 17-inch dark silver wheels, as well as
• body-color interior trim
• auto on/off headlights
• an auto-dimming driver’s side mirror, as well as
• rain-sensing windshield wipers
• automatic climate control
• auto-dimming rearview mirror with Homelink®, as well as
• heated, leather-trimmed seats
• a 9-speaker BOSE®Premium audio system
• a fabric-lined soft top for greater sound insulation, as well as
• Sirius XM Satellite radio with a 4-month trial subscription
• Mazda Navigation
• Blind Spot Monitoring with Rear Cross-Traffic Alert, as well as
• new Traffic Sign Recognition
• Adaptive Front-lighting System
• High Beam Control, as well as
• Lane-Departure Warning
• Smart City Brake Support

New GT-S Package

Mazda will offer a new GT-S Package for MX-5 Grand Touring models equipped with the SKYACTIV-MT 6-speed manual transmission, equipping those models with a front shock tower brace, limited-slip rear differential and Bilstein dampers.

MX-5 Club models continue the two-pronged, higher-trim strategy, offering a harder-edged foil to the MX-5 Grand Touring. MX-5 Club builds upon MX-5 Sport with standard:

• Bilstein dampers
• shock tower brace and limited-slip rear differential in models equipped with the SKYACTIV-MT transmission

All other MX-5 Club models receive standard:

• heated cloth seats with red contrast stitching, as well as
• body-color interior trim
• Metallic Black alloy 17-inch wheels, as well as
• front air dam and rear lip spoilers
• a 9-speaker BOSE®Premium audio system, as well as
• SiriusXM Satellite Radio with a 4-month trial subscription
• Blind Spot Monitoring with Rear Cross-Traffic Alert.

MX-5 Club models are available with an i-ACTIVSENSE Club Package that comes with Smart City Brake Support and Lane-Departure Warning. All ’19 MX-5 Miata come standard in the U.S. with a SKYACTIV-G 2.0-liter engine that produces 181 horsepower at 7,000 rpm and 151 lb-ft of torque at 4,000 rpm.

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