I'm not sure if you guys have seen this. Relatively new movie out on Mazda's Japan website. Shows the RX-7 fading into history, could this be the end of the Rotary? But then, no, the rebirth with the Renesis...

Also shows how each engine is hand built, kind of makes the Renesis that much more special & exotic.

http://special.rx-8.mazda.co.jp/renesis/

Nice find man, to bad i can't read japenese though

Very cool . . . Thanks.

Excellent find, now if I only understood Japanese, then I would know what the announcer was saying.

Originally posted by ALMOST8IT
Excellent find, now if I only understood Japanese, then I would know what the announcer was saying. Well, my Japanese isn't perfect, but here's a summary:

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Standing alone as the rotary sports car, RX-7. August 2002, the curtain goes down on the RX-7, does this mean the end of the rotary heart of Japanese sports cars?

1967, for 6 years a new technology is being developed, engineers at Mazda strive to create this new rotary dream. Each new car has world class performance, but with each generation the environmental issues create new challenges, will the rotary finally disappear?

However...
...No, the Rotary did not end. The Rotary must never end, once again a new effort has started to design a new Rotary engine. The new generation rotary is born, RENESIS, with performance, quality and craftsmanship. Each engine is hand made one at a time, just like a racing car. An engine that feels like revving to 9000rpm, that's the rotary engine. Built with Japanese tradition (like the katana "Samurai sword" shown) that can only be achieved by humans, that's Japanese craftsmanship. That's why the rotary has spirit (soul). This is Mazda's Spirit, Mazda's pride, only Mazda can do it. This is deeply the rotary engine, the Renesis.

April 2003, a new generation of rotary sports car performance is unveiled, RX-8. The rotary lives again. Engine of the year, RENESIS. Any road, highway, freeway, you can hear the sound of the rotary. Mazda's "challenge the spirit" is this energy, the new rotary engine. More now than ever, this is for rotary sports lovers. Mazda.

wow...i am amazed...my heart skipped a beat and that was a great translation...thanks for the summary :)

I cried

Truly great , no dammit, inspiring, to be a part of this superb work of genius ! Thank you .."Domo"..RX-Hachi.

He could have made that whole thing up and we would have believed him.

Nice translation though, that was pretty well written.

-Rupes