How Powerful is the 2019 Mazda MX-5 Miatas Engine

May 26th, 2026 by

You can look at the spec sheets or read about a car in a trade magazine, but the best way to know how a car runs is to get behind the wheel and rev the engine a bit. Hearing those pistons start to fire and everything else work into gear will make your hair stand on end if it has enough power in it.

Not all cars are created equally, it takes a finely tuned piece of machine to really get the blood going when you start up a car. There are a few select cars that can give you that exhilarating feeling and with its redesigns, the 2019 Mazda MX-5 Miata can do just that. Tweaked and refined the engine in the MX-5 is a work of art that can get anyone excited.

2019 Mazda MX-5 Miata New Engine

Crafted around the idea of making a fun and enjoyable ride the 2019 Mazda MX-5 Miata didn’t seek to make the world’s most powerful engine, but a strong one couldn’t hurt. With a SKYACTIV-G® 2.0L engine under the hood, Mazda worked on fine-tuning the engine into a high-performance beast. Small shifts like the weight and size of pistons have given the engine an overhaul that’s resulted in improvements in the horsepower, up to 181, and torque, up to 151 lb-ft.

For those moments when you really want to give it a go and put your foot on the floor the 2019 Mazda MX-5 Miata has a redline, the maximum speed an engine can reach without damaging its parts, that is now 7,500 rpm. This has been accomplished by lowering the power lost in the exhaust, improving fuel injection and consumption, and an improved final drive ratio of 3.583.


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