The latest Mazda MX-5 Miata is available with either a softtop or, on the RF, a retractable hardtop. Noticeably missing, though, is a removable hardtop for the former car. That all changes now.
Mazda Motorsports has announced that it will sell a removable hardtop for the Miata beginning in April. Except there’s one catch: It’s designed exclusively for the Global Mazda MX-5 Cup race car.
At $4420, the top isn’t cheap. Nevertheless, it’s a necessary cost for MX-5 Cup car owners looking to race their roadsters in racing series that require the use of a factory-approved hardtop. To fit the tin top around the MX-5 Cup car’s FIA-approved roll cage, though, aesthetics were forced to take a back seat. As a result, the hardtop’s rising roofline awkwardly peaks well past the driver’s head.
Don’t get any ideas about trying to fit this top on your run-of-the-mill Miata daily driver, though: A Mazda Motorsports spokesperson told us that installing the mounting hardware “requires things you wouldn’t want to do to your street car.” Bummer.
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