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Thu, 05 February 2015 20:36

Bob de Kruyff

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Johnny Bridges wrote on Wed, 04 February 2015 16:20

The rumor was - and I buy it - the Mazda engineers spent many hours listening to the MG A and B, and tuning the Miata to duplicate the sound. On the four cylinder Miata at least, they hit it pretty much spot on. Their success may well have led to the noted foolishness.

When someone makes a muscle car which sounds like a 440 spinning over and starting, I'll consider buying it!

--johnny

The Miata was designed and built in Hiroshima Japan. The lead planner was Bob Hall, twin brother to my then planner Jim Hall who you see on TV all the time. The designer was Mark Jordan--son of the famous GM designer Chuck Jordan. To my knowledge, the Miata was never built in the US. However, the stories of the exhaust tuning are correct. Jim, Bob and myself spent a week in the wine country of California evaluating one of the first prototypes.

Bob de Kruyff
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