Thought some people might find this interesting.

I found this on motortrend.com - the future vehicle list.

2006 Mazda RX-7: If the RX-8 is the success Mazda is banking on, a two-door RX-7 may follow for 2006. On the drawing board is a shortened, lighter car boasting 280-330 hp.

Heres the link if you want to look for yourself.

http://www.motortrend.com/future/spied/112_2006fvf/

that'd be awesome!!!

280-300bhp?!!? sweet.. lighter?!? OMG!!!!

never believe a bit of what MT has to say. In the quest to "bring it to you first" they throw out just about any garbage that has even the slightest hint of maybe someday coming true.

With that said, I hope they're right. Of course that is not the first we've heard about the whole "if ....then" deal.

A new RX-7 would definitely be sweet. I noticed that RotaryNews had pics of the RX-01 on display at the Laguna Seca event. Does anyone know if that is a permanent display or if the car was brought for the event? Maybe the new 7 will be based on the RX-01?

i don't know...rx-01 is pretty old (when was it from? 1995 or something?). personally i'd much rather they build the new 7 off the rx-8 platform. plus rx-01 isn't that great looking of a concept car. some of its design elements actually came off some of the original brainstormed cues when they styled the fd3s rx-7 in the late 80's... but i'm glad they're touring it around with some of the other older concepts instead of trashing them like some other companies

a new rx7 would be awesome. with about 300 hp and a couple hundred pounds off the 8, that would be one nice ride. id rather have a fd body style then the rx-01. the skyline might also come in 06. that will be sweet as well.

Indeed...RX-01 was put out at Auto Shows in Japan sometime between late 1995-1996. It was only a project car sadly.

The car looks pretty decent with lovely curves and specs....forgot what they were.....not as fast as the FD3S for sure.

Read that RX-01 was built on a miata platform....not too sure on that....but the car definately looks small.

Cheers!
Heavenscent

no the 7 needs to keep it's design lineage, 'cause it's perfect the was it was, and (hopefully) always will be...

a shortened platform, about 2500 lb, with those 300hp sounds kinda scary to me... certainly worthy of becoming the next 7, eh??

jonnyb, the skyline is currently available around the world... here in NA it's the G35 Infiniti... i think you're talkin' about the GT-R... even if we did, i wouldn't care (if the 7's coming)

Originally posted by wakeech
no the 7 needs to keep it's design lineage, 'cause it's perfect the was it was, and (hopefully) always will be...

a shortened platform, about 2500 lb, with those 300hp sounds kinda scary to me... certainly worthy of becoming the next 7, eh??

jonnyb, the skyline is currently available around the world... here in NA it's the G35 Infiniti... i think you're talkin' about the GT-R... even if we did, i wouldn't care (if the 7's coming)

"in NA its the g35"? how can they call that a skyline... or how can that be considered equivalent in NA?well anyways. yea the gtr is ugly and i would take a 7 over it any day, but i think i saw a rendering of what a new skyline was going to be like. but it doesnt matter...

Originally posted by jonny b
"in NA its the g35"? how can they call that a skyline... or how can that be considered equivalent in NA?

the skyline was, is, and will be for the next little while a lot more than just the GT-R... it's been tradition in Nissan that the Skyline (previously Datsun 500 back in the day here, right??) was the platform for the GT-R, but it is also a multi-model sedan all over the world, and has been for a long time...
a regular Skyline isn't all that different from what it is now, but think about a GT-R Skyline made from THIS one... talk about ugs, eh?? i can see why they're considering abandoning the FM Platform for the next GT-R entirely...

thing with skyline is, with all the previous generations i believe it's only available in right hand steering countries. they were very unique sedans, very catered to the japanese domestic market. not to say they're not nice; they're very nice cars. they have always looked pretty sleek and cutting edge, always performed well, and always rwd and inline-6 w/ cool techs (ie 4wd, 4ws, twin turbo, etc.). even in non-GT-R forms they were very sporty. but for some reason nissan decided to phase out the r34 skyline (from which the last GT-R is based on) and replace it with the current v35 skylien (identical to our infiniti g35) which deviates a great deal from traditional skyline designs. it's still rwd, but it's look is decidedly different (i guess to cater to the international market), dumpted all the traditional skyline styling cues (ie round taillamps, long hood, sleek and low body, etc.; now it's very plump and fat), and went with a very european design. for my taste, i think it's tragic that nissan threw away the skyline tradition, so i don't like the car that much. it's a very good car, still, but what made me like it, besides the GT-R, is all gone. thus ends my skyline schpiel. luckily, mazda hasn't done that w/ their cars. the atenza is very unique and cool, and the rx-8, well, there is nothing else quite like it...and i believe it's the most unique and beautiful looking car out of japan. and seeing what they delivered with the 8, i can't wait for the 7. i can barely wait for the 8! i want my rx-8!

but as for the rx-01, it was a 1995 concept, w/ a new MSP-RE rotary engine, which was the predecessor to the Renesis design, and was said (i think?) to have 220hp. the goal was to offer the new sports car to replace the gap left by the rx-7 (since it was lifted from the us market in 95), and it was supposed to be very affordable and not as extreme as the 7. rxman720b has some wonderful pictures of it from his rx-8 testdrive at laguna seca, and it actually looks kinda pretty in those pix. the car was never produced. instead its engine morphed into the Renesis. i doubt the new 7 will have anything to do with this car design-wise

The link... http://carpoint.ninemsn.com.au/news/newshome.asp#news1

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Mazda RX-7 nears
Rotary fans rejoice! This time next year, says product development boss Joseph Bakaj, Mazda will have some exciting news. His answer was in response to questions about a replacement for the RX-7 rotary powered sports coupe.

Melbourne daily newspaper, The Age, first broke the RX-7 replacement story in 2002. CarPoint can now add that it's likely to be powered by a larger capacity version of the 13B-derived RENESIS rotary in the RX-8.

"Technically, this engine can be turbocharged," said Mazda Powertrain chief Hiroshi Kinoshi of the 184kW RX-8 engine. "We have three choices when chasing more power. We can turbocharge, we can add a rotor, or we can enlarge the rotors. Personally I think we should take the third option, we should increase the displacement of the engine."

Kinoshi wouldn't reveal any outright power figures for the RX-7, saying Japan has an agreed 280hp ceiling. But the precedent has already been set, as Nissan was widely reported to have broken that ceiling with the last GT-R. Magazines reported in-excess of 300kW from the coupe's twin-turbocharged, 2.6-litre 6-cylinder engine.


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actually, not all skylines are rwd. the gtr is awd. and, u can switch it over to left drive, how else would u make it legal in the U.S. but, there is only a few places that will import them for u, makin it very expensive to do so, and the only ones i have heard of are in california and utah.i still pick the r34 skyline gtr vspec II as my fav car, it would smoke an rx8 without breakin a sweat

WTF! Holy thread resurrection Batman! :eek: :rolleyes:

actually, not all skylines are rwd. the gtr is awd. and, u can switch it over to left drive, how else would u make it legal in the U.S. but, there is only a few places that will import them for u, makin it very expensive to do so, and the only ones i have heard of are in california and utah.i still pick the r34 skyline gtr vspec II as my fav car, it would smoke an rx8 without breakin a sweat


Aye, it used to be one of my faves too, until I realized it has a bit of the STI/Evo complex. It just looks like a cheap car that's tuned all to hell (sure, it isn't cheap, but it looks that way). If I'm going to buy a car as a DD that's going to put that big a dent in my wallet, it sure as hell would be something much more classy and probably very, very rumbly. :D

HOLY CRAP!!! 03!? :eek:

I was wondering why there were so many people posting that I didn't recognize.

Wow, I think this is one of my very first posts/threads!!!

Well, I guess MT might have gotten a prediction correct for once, but perhaps the date a bit off. Wonder when it might come out....

This reminds me...has Mazda ever made a car and produced it for a year and then stopped only to produce a different car under the same name a few years later?

and, u can switch it over to left drive, how else would u make it legal in the U.S.

um...no you can't. that's one of the reasons nissan only exported them to countries like england and australia/new zealand. and, the skylines imported into the us are NOT converted to left hand drive; it doesn't have to be lhd to be street legal

If those speculation are correct, it could make the selling price $50k easily. worth? yea...
exciting for poor man like me? --> no...

personally, I don't like the idea of increase displacement, kinda ruin the smally rotery idea.... but increasing displacement may not translate to extra weight.

All the speculation with GTR, 7 and next gen NSX is great... next supra? 3000GT?