Twin-Engined, Sixteen-Cylinder Mazda MX-5 Miata, Anyone?

12 years, 2 months ago - 14 February 2012, Autoblog
Twin-Engined, Sixteen-Cylinder Mazda MX-5 Miata, Anyone?
As far as two-seaters go, they don't get much farther apart than the Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4 and the Mazda MX-5 Miata.

The Mazda is as cheap as the Bugatti is expensive, and the Veyron has as many turbochargers – and digits in its output figures – as the Miata has cylinders. But this homegrown example aims to bridge the gap.

Someone, it seems, has stretched out their Miata's wheelbase and fitted a pair of eight-cylinder engines (which is essentially what powers the Bugatti) under the extended hood – or where the hood used to be, anyway. The result, as you can see from the brief, is rather rumblesome. Here's hoping the next vid has a bit more action...