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"  If you watched the livestream of the 2016 Mazda Miata&amp;#039;s unveiling, then you&amp;#039;re probably like me in that you came away from it with more questions about the car than answers. Which is pretty amazing, given that this has been a circle-the-calender, super-hyped event for months. We&amp;#039;re talking Corvette/Mustang-level anticipation, and with good reason. The Miata is itself an icon now.  I expected we&amp;#039;d get the motherlode of information about the car. But apart from seeing it for the first time (it looks effing killer) and getting a Duran Duran live performance as part of the deal (they were solid) we basically got crickets. Okay, they did let some info slip. The two most important revelations are that the 2016 Miata will weigh over 220 lbs less than the current car, and that it has achieved 50/50 weight distribution. If you&amp;#039;ve driven an NC Miata, itself a great car, the writing is on the wall: the ND will probably be spectacular. That&amp;#039;s awesome. The lack of additional information available, however, is not. READ MORE: 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata: Initial Specs (JDM)  Apart from the weight info, we got some design-rhetoric razzle-dazzle and the most rudimentary specs imaginable. Some of those, incidentally, have been public knowledge since Mazda showed off the 2016 Miata&amp;#039;s naked chassis in New York. So after the seemingly endless days, weeks, and months of waiting and speculation...we get to wait some more. This is the first time I can think of where an automaker has fully revealed a car\u2014with all the attendant fanfare\u2014and I still come away feeling like all I got was a teaser. Oh wait...now I remember the other time that happened. READ MORE: Watch the 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata reveal here NOW! It&amp;#039;s great that Mazda kept the car a surprise. That&amp;#039;s a towering achievement in the digital age. It sucks that we&amp;#039;re left with a cliffhanger instead of the rest of the story. Because it&amp;#039;s probably a great story. Originally published at Road &amp;amp;amp; Track. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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