I am delighted to announce the latest Mazda MX-5 Special Edition - the Mazda MX-5 KENDO lauching 1st March 2011
Kendo - from the Japanese for “Way of the Sword”, a modern Japanese martial art of sword-fighting based on traditional Japanese swordmanship.
Based on the MX-5 1.8i SE soft top and the 2.0i SE Roadster Coupe the special edition boasts and array of featuresincluding high quality Stone leather seats. It will come in 2 unique colours Sparkling Black mica and Dolphin Grey mica.
The spec will include : tinted 17" alloys, silver fashion bars, front fog lights, chrome styling kit and an exteriot special edition nomenclature.
The interior with co-ordinated leather seats, door inserts and grey stitching on the leather aspects of the cabin, alloy pedal set and unique floor mats.
The Roadster Coupe also features premium BOSE audio system, Bluetooth and Criuse control.
The cost …
The MX-5 1.8i Kendo Soft-top with retail at an estimated price of £19,255.00 OTR
The MX-5 2.0i Kendo Roadster Coupe with retail at an estimated price of £22,320.00 OTR
Wished they would do the soft top as a 2.0ltr in these special additions, not everyone wont’s the hard top version.
Lucky they did the 2.0ltr in my version as I would of thought twice about buying a 1.8Ltr, this is only my opinion of course as some people prefer the 1.8.
Again mazda cant sell the lower spec machines so rebadges a few and sort of misses the whole point of “special” editions (a clue mazda is in the word special)
Black and Grey, about as dull and unimaginative as the people who think them up…
Leather? Cruise control? Bose audio? I’m not really familiar with the current MX5 range, but to the uninitiated that doesn’t sound particularly “lower spec” …?
With mainly dealing with the imported roadsters,I totally agree, if you look at some of the JDM roadsters like the Y.S Mk 2 badge as a jasper carrot over here…specail???the V.spec Mk 1’s badged as a SE over here and there are loads more that they have tried this on more so with the Mk 2’s and 3’s, slap a badge on call it a special edition,to be honest most of the Mk2’s over here were just different colours with a badge,and most were not the best of colours,so it does not work for me, but if owners are still handing money over for them then they will keep doing it, now I’m not that old, but I do remember when a special edition was what it was and a lot different from the models underneath it.<o:p></o:p>
Ok leather seats, they will be fitted to a production model in Japan anyway, and are just putting a miss match car together for here with some other bits thrown in, nothing would have been made special for her.<o:p></o:p>
Kendo???is that not a coffee???Or is it the chap out of the pink panther movies???
If they can’t get the colour right they’ve not a hope in hell of sorting the other bits n pieces Classic Red? Blazing Yellow? Winning Blue? Come on, mazda. you’re putting colours on other models why not your sports cars? ::heavy sigh ensues:::
I’m one happy guy as I’ve managed to pick up a great deal on a 1.8i Kendo Soft-top (new not pre-registered) for £15,404 OTR … plus £80 to transfer my number plate over.
