Mazda Miata RF Sales Paused in Japan Due to Engine Software Issue (www.motor1.com)

Toyota isn’t the only Japanese automaker to

following irregularities discovered during the certification process. Mazda is doing the same for the MX-5 Miata in the RF flavor at home in Japan. The culprit is the engine control software, which was different during testing than the one fitted to production cars sold to customers.

Mazda admits it used a different engine control software that had a partially deactivated ignition timing adjust function during the certification process. From June 2018, it produced 10,930 cars with this problem, most of which…