The Specialty Equipment Market Association show floor is a fantasy world full of extravagant builds with tens (and sometimes hundreds) of thousands of dollars poured into every type of car you could dream of. But every now and then, you’ll come across a more understated vehicle that’s actually within the realms of possibility and affordability for the average driver. The MX-5 Global Cup-inspired Mazda Miata RF Kuro Concept is one of those rare machines.
Debuting alongside an ultra-lightweight, 1980-pound version of the MX-5 Speedster, the sinister-looking Kuro adopts some of the performance and attitude from the the Miata race car, but does it using street-legal parts that you can buy from Mazda’s online motorsports parts store. The Kuro, which means “charcoal” in Japanese, wears semi-matte, black-metallic paint. It gets its mean stance from 17×7.5-inch Rays forged wheels with 215/45R17 BFGoodrich Rival G-Force tires and the Cup car’s adjustable suspension with Multimatic dampers and hypercoil springs.
The only other upgrades Mazda lists for the concept are an OpenFlash Performance exhaust that gives a claimed six- to seven-horsepower boost and the same Brembo dual-piston front brake calipers that you’d find on the Cup car. The RF starts at a little more than $32,000, so it wouldn’t be cheap to build a concept exactly like this, but it’s doable, which is something you can’t say about most rides you see in Las Vegas.
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