New Mazda MX-5 meets EV-converted original: which is best?

160bhp for the EV, 181bhp for the ICE. Former around half a second quicker to 60mph.
Similar in size, money and ethos. Yet wildly different in applicationElectric NA or all the bells-and-whistles ND: on which MX-5 would my £35,000 (ish) go? Honestly, it’s the new one. But it’s closer than I thought it would have been.
The ‘NA’ you see here is indeed an electric car. When I wrote about it before, it garnered fury from the world of car bores. “Not a propa M