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Welcome to the MX-5 Owners Club

Established in 1994 and now with over 7,000 subscribed members, the MX-5 Owners Club is the World’s largest MX-5 Club.

Members gain a wide range of ownership benefits, discounts and great rates from the Club’s insurance partners, a UK wide network of Areas and club coordinators as well as Local, National and International events, Club magazine ‘Soft Top Hardtop’ and a forum with unrivalled ownership knowledge. The Club helps you to get the most out of MX-5 ownership.

If the MX-5 is your passion the MX-5 Owners Club is here for you.

Latest News

- Introducing the Tipo 184, MX-5 based classic race car
  Build your own Classic Grand Prix racer from an MX-5. Today marks the launch of a very special project. A new take on giving life to an MX-5 that is past saving and one of the most exhilarating track experiences that you can build yourself, with a comprehensive Haynes guide being prepared to support your build, this project updates one of the most iconic and nostalgic racing cars of all time while making it an accessible build that can be done at home. Back in 2016 fresh faced motoring TV star and car builder, Ant Anstead visited the MX-5 Owners Club stand at the NEC to talk technical details about his plans to build a Classic Formula 1 Alfa 158 inspired one-off build that was going to be built around the MX-5 power train. It was all as part of the Lancaster Classic Rumble, a charity head to head with the Wheeler Dealer Mike Brewer, who was restoring an XR3 for the same event, they went on to auction them off at the NEC November show in 2017 raising funds for Harrisons Fund. Ant was also heading off to the States to join the Wheeler Dealers show. Shortly after after a holiday trip to the states for the Miatas at Laguna Seca event and an invitation to the Wheeler Dealers studio in LA, the Club’s Iain Fleming got a call about an MX-5 being hunted to feature on Wheeler Dealers, a rare Mazdaspeed NB was found and went on to be filmed in 2019. At the time Ant was in the middle of filming his new ‘Master Mechanic’ Show, that was streamed on Motortrend channel and now also available in the UK on Amazon Prime. The show featured a more ambitious axle-up Alfa 158 build from a MG-T chassis and Alfa Romeo Spider alongside this project the Tipo 184 was being formed to create a low cost, home-build MX-5 based racer to accompany the series and provide an accessible opportunity for many. The Alfa 158 Developed in the interwar period, by 1950 the 158 was eligible for the new World Championship of Drivers. The car then went on to win every race in which it competed, including the first ever Formula One (F1) race at Silverstone. The Alfa Romeo team included talented drivers such as Giuseppe Farina and Juan Manuel Fangio who won the World Drivers’ Championship five times. The Alfa Romeo 158/159 was also known as the Alfetta (meaning the Little Alfa in Italian) is one of the most successful racing cars ever produced – the 158 and its derivative, the 159 (shown), took 47 wins from 54 Grands Prix entered. Grand prix history http://www.grandprixhistory.org/alfa158.htm Historic racing news https://www.historicracingnews.com/Article/Gallery-Alfa-Romeo-s-158-Winner-of-the-First-World-Championship-Grand-Prix/2402 The MX-5 – the perfect choice As a lightweight front engined nimble sports car the MX-5 also offers a reliable and global supply of used and new parts meaning the MX-5 was the ideal platform for a kit build, add to this time and corrosion putting so many MX-5 off the road here in the UK, where mechanically they have years left to give, means they are the ideal platform for this afterlife project. The MX-5 also has a very strong and dedicated track and race following. With a dedicated race series already being discussed for the Tipo 184 in the UK, the options for a new racing challenge will have many in the scene relishing the car’s arrival. Throughout the project development Ant has also been writing a Haynes guide for the build and the kit. The book will be available soon. Building the Tipo Community The MX-5 Owners Club will be the hub of the Tipo 184 community in the UK. We’ll be creating a dedicated space on forums to discuss the car, builds and where home builders will be able to reach out to others for support. Future racing developments will also be available as soon as plans unfold. Over the development the Club have been instrumental in providing help, advice and even sourcing some donor MX-5s for the project. We’ve connected Ant and his team to our friends and partners at MX5parts, Autolink UK, MX5Works, BOFI Racing, Skuzzle and the MX5 Restorer all who’ve helped in finding and providing development parts and knowledge, as well as reaching out overseas to connections there to build routes for export and international communities. It has been a genuine total MX-5 community effort to bring this together and today the project can finally be unveiled to the Members of the Club with a special offer. In advance of the car being offered to the public, there are 10 kits for members available to buy and consisting of the key components required for the build. These kits also come with the opportunity to bring your build along to Ant’s workshop over a weekend later in 2021 for some hands-on build time with Ant. These launch kits will cost £7499 + VAT And to find out more and register your interest please visit the introductory page at: tipo184.com ... Read more...
- Reassembling Records & Resurrecting Rallies
  The Club’s Event Calendar for 2021. We saw significant disruption to the Club’s event diary this year, but looking ahead to 2021 we hope to get things back on track bigger and better than ever. Dealing with the virus created an environment that made our traditional events calendar impossible to deliver safely especially with the numbers who attend. Looking ahead the likely restrictions that will be necessary to run any event in 2021 and these will be foundation blocks for all planning that can be done next year. The need for increased Health and Safety and insurances will be issues that all event planners will face and we will need to put in place and ensure elements such as pre-registration, ticketed only gates, social distancing, and no overcrowding as key factors inbuilt to every event. It’s planning for the restrictions that actually makes a first event next year a workable proposal and in looking to kick things off and get the Club back together in 2021 with a bang, so we are going to go big, really big! World Record attempt, Elvington Airfield on June 20th Back in 2019 we attempted to go for the largest parade of Mazdas World Record to bring the title back to the UK. While we came so very, very close, sad to say that only a small number of drivers let the whole attempt down, especially where everyone had worked so hard, including everyone who closed the gap. But taking all of the learnings from that attempt, working with all the restrictions we may face and with newly updated World Record attempt guidelines, we plan to make a return to Elvington Airfield on June 20th and make you all world record holders. Pre-registration will be online and will launch in early 2021, and while there will need to be a registration fee for the attempt, members will be sent a welcome and participant pack in advance, helping to speed entry and on the day record registration. Pre-registration will also help us with all that will be required for ordering in facilities you’ll be pleased to hear, (there are no world records for queuing, but if there were we would have broken at least one). Breakfast Club British Motor Museum, Saturday 3rd July When we had to cancel the rally in September it meant that we could not support the Motor Museum, so this year we’re planning a Breakfast Club meet at the Museum on Saturday 3rd July, it’ll be a special get together with a couple of surprises and some drive outs, members will also get discounts to the museum if wanting to visit. The day will be rounded out with an MX-5 supper club meet at Caffeine and Machine for a dining experience with a difference. There are also plans for a series of regional Sunday coffee meets as soon as restriction permit. National Rally Claydon Estate, Buckinghamshire, Sunday September 19th For the National Rally we are picking up where we left the plans for the Claydon Estate as was booked for last year. This year the rally will go ahead on Sunday September 19th our more traditional event date, where hopefully we can see a return to a more normal event that will be held in the grounds of a magnificent house and gardens. Add to this a programme for some Club track days and Club stands already booked for the Donington and Thruxton Historic shows, The Silverstone Classic and penciled in for the London Motorshow, the NEC classic it is hoped that even with a backdrop of restrictions we will be able provide a calendar of events that will get you out and enjoying life in your MX-5!... Read more...

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