Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...

A few years ago when the ND was relatively new, the peeps at Flyin’ Miata did the unthinkable by shoehorning a small-block V8 in the engine bay of the Japanese roadster. Turn-key cars are no longer ...

The Chevrolet LS V8 might be one of the most famous engines of all time. Variants of the engine powered virtually every GM muscle car and truck for the last couple of decades. Notably, it's the ...

To quickly into the spirit of things, we have an LS3-swapped Mazda MX-5 Miata (ND) that can destroy a brand-new Mustang GT over the quarter mile, but it's still no match for a Porsche 911 Targa 4S. In ...

Are you of the mind that the sub-200 horsepower that comes from Mazda’s factory isn’t nearly enough grunt for the magical MX-5? Well, spotted for sale on Bring a Trailer is a barely-used, LS-swapped ...

We already knew that Flyin’ Miata was in the midst of creating a swap that would stuff the 6.2-liter LS3 V8 under the hood of a brand-new ND Miata, but what we didn’t know is that this swap will also ...

Flyin’ Miata has informed Road&Track that the conversion kit it’s been developing for the Mazda Miata MX-5 ND is ready to roll. The big thing here is that the kit will only add roughly 250 pounds to ...

The idea of stuffing a big engine into a small car is one of the most quintessential rules of having fun behind a steering wheel. Putting a V8 engine under the bonnet of a Mazda MX-5 is hardly an ...

A performance shop in the United States is shoehorning engines making 525 horsepower into a tiny roadster platform weighing just a tick over 2,300 lbs. No, we’re not talking about a Shelby Cobra 427 ...

It was only a matter of time before the mad scientists at Flyin' Miata put together a V-8 conversion for the fourth-generation ND-chassis Mazda Miata. That time has come, and the muscle-infused ...