Our time with a proper sports car comes to an end, but we’ve taken the keys to a CX-80 to see if Mazda can be considered a premium brand.

It’s out with the classic and in with the contemporary, as my MX-5 RF has gone back to Mazda and been replaced with something rather different.

Before I explain more about the new car that I’m itching to spend time with, it’s worth summing up my time with the MX-5. In all honesty, I’ve never found it so hard to hand the keys back to a car manufacturer after a long-term loan as I have with BU24 CCO.

Earlier this year I asked Mazda if I could live with an MX-5. In a previous job I had run a 2.0-litre convertible during the summer, and it was about as perfect as it could be. But this time around I wanted a different experience, so I asked if I could run

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