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Originally Posted by tcar
They were trying to 'invoke the elan' of the Lotus, not a Datsun or MG.
They even designed the exhaust system to sound like the Lotus.
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Mazda actually bought a bunch of old sports cars (even an E-type, IIRC) and drove them all to figure out what characteristics they really liked and then tried to combine them all into one car. It's not a total copy of an Elan.
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