The last production model to utilize one was (unsurprisingly) the long axed Mazda RX-8 sports car. But Mazda has not given up on the idea of using it, and a recently unearthed patent appears to suggest that Mazda is closer to reviving the … Keep reading Categories Future Cars / Rumors...
For Naoko Nishimoto of Nagasaki, Japan, the last drive before surrendering her license at the age of 80 was at the wheel of her silver third-generation Mazda RX-7, its rotors spinning up with the hiss of sequential twin turbochargers as she snicked the manual transmission into third. ...
It only takes until about the fourth corner of my first hot lap in ‘Felix’ the Mazda RX-8 to realise that I’m driving it ‘wrong’. Coming straight out of a long succession of modern turbocharged cars with circa-7000rpm redlines and heavy-hitting mid-range torque deliveries...
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To start with we will be offering the RX-8 Power Series Racepipe in a single resonator/single 65mm catalyst configuration (as well as a single or dual resonator configuration). We’re in the process of doing the first production run on these and hope to have them out in the next two ...
Kicking off our new YouTube series with a 2,000bhp RX-7. Did you really expect anything less?
straightforward development of the 10A/12A series.) Unlike the Luce, which had a conventional front-engine/rear-wheel-drive configuration, the RX-87 mounted the compact 13A longitudinally ahead of the front wheels, driving a four-speed transaxle: It was Toyo Kogyo’s first front-wheel-drive ...
For its part, Mazda is quick to point out that without the compact dimensions of the Skyactiv-R engine, the RX-Vision’s sultry hoodline likely would be impossible to implement. Although the maker pulled the plug on its last rotary-powered production car, the RX-8, in 2012, research and...
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Which, by the way, continues to be ace. While all around it, sporty cars ramp up the horsepower in search of thrills to the point where you can now get hot hatches with north of 400bhp, the MX-5 relies on feel, poise and, dammit, just pure fun. It’s light, rear-wheel driven ...