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I hear ya on the Miata but it's a very, very tricky subject. First there's the cost issue but even putting that aside and putting aside "more power makes it harder to drive", it's a small light car, you add weight pretty much anywhere and it can quickly wreck the ethos of the thing. More weight and power means you need more tyre, more brakes etc etc.... things spiral. A turbo is off the table, weight aside it would ruin the experience.
Increasingly capacity on the 4 bangers means they run out of lungs, go up to 6 cylinders and it doesn't work. I've said before, Mazda and Alfa should merge, there's a similar sort of karma around the two marques and I think Alfa would inject more power and more character from a 2.2 litre NA 4 banger than Mazda.
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