Five-Point Inspection: 2014 Mazda MX-5 Club

1. No USB Port...

There’s something romantic about any vehicle engineered for purist driving appeal. The MX-5 falls squarely into that category, but even with that in mind there are some glaring gaps in what it offers that would give me pause were I weighing it against another car in the same price range.

Mazda hasn’t seen fit to adding a USB port despite the general driving public’s great migration to mobile phones that almost exclusively rely on cables with that sort of connection. Yes, you can easily buy an adapter for the 12-volt outlet but that isn’t the point. Universal serial bus connections are a must.