Sad Day for Miata Lovers!

[GTaudiophile]

The designer of the original Mazda Miata has put down his pen and will teach design, AutoWeek magazine reports. Tom Matano, 54, is leaving Mazda to become the director of industrial design at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. Matano has been the head of Mazda design in Japan for the past four years, the magazine says, but a recent restructuring at the company left his position redundant. Mazda has said Moray Callum ? brother of Jaguar designer Ian Callum ? will be its new design director. Matano joined Mazda in 1983; the Miata joined the Mazda lineup in 1989 and some 600,000 roadsters have been built.


Darn! BMW should have hired him to replace Bangle!

 

[geno]

The current Miata is cool, but it looks ripped off from the Viper for some reason

 

[yakko]

Originally posted by: genocide
The current Miata is cool, but it looks ripped off from the Viper for some reason

I thought it looked more ripped off from the gen 3 RX7 which is why it turned out so good.

 

[Rallispec]

i think it looks more like the viper than the rx-7

 

[Rallispec]

however, its a mazda-- so i guess the rx-7 would make more sense

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: genocide
The current Miata is cool, but it looks ripped off from the Viper for some reason

The Miata came first.

 

[KokomoGST]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile

Darn! BMW should have hired him to replace Bangle!

New Z4...

 

[Desslok]

Originally posted by: KokomoGST

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile Darn! BMW should have hired him to replace Bangle!

New Z4...

I take it you don't liek the new Z4?

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Desslok

Originally posted by: KokomoGST

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile Darn! BMW should have hired him to replace Bangle!

New Z4...

I take it you don't liek the new Z4?

The new Z4 looks like ass. The 6-year old Boxster looks much better