How many people on this forum went to the focus group?

 

5 i counted

 

Guys,
As much as I would like to confirm or deny everything on here... I can't yet!

Some things I can say about this concept coupe.

-Not the Senku... no real relation except *maybe rotary*
-RWD
-Platform 4-cylinder and Rotary capable (will debut as piston)
-design still evolving but close to final

-this is the coupe that has been mentioned and speculated on for a few years now; at least at RotaryNews.Com.

Now some speculation and fact to add to the fire... with the automatic RX-8 now getting the 6-port motor, what do you think Mazda is going to do with all those 4-port motors?!?



-Bern

 

Damn I'm So Excited!!!!

I Want That Sketch!!!!!!!!

please

 

And the RX-8 production slowing down they most find a rotary car to keep production going.

 

i asked that question bern. trhe answer i got was the castings are no differentr- the just make different holes. so the just cut more 6ports.
unless you are suggesting that still leaves them with extra capacity for a second car?

 

Not suggesting anything?

-Bern

 

bern please don't get in trouble by reveling anything you may or may not know, Im sure no one here wants that.

MAZDA GIVE US A PIC OR SKETHC!!!!!!!

I hope mazda does't take forever to bring this car out.

 

Here is what Mazda is saying officially on it's Design Future

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Senku concept hints at Mazda's design direction

TOKYO -- Mazda Motor Corp. showed a concept vehicle that hints at design ideas for a decade from now.

The Senku concept, unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show, likely will not carry the design of the next generation of Mazda vehicles but instead the generation after that, executives said.

Moray Callum, Mazda's design chief, said the Senku's "very strong shoulder," which emphasizes the front wheel arch, likely will make its way into Mazda design.

"We don't know if it's the next generation," Callum said. "We asked designers to stretch and say where we would be in 10 years' time. I'd be very happy if this is where we were in 10 years."

Mazda's designers were instructed to find "new graphic expressions and new proportions" with the Senku, said Norihito Iwao, lead designer of Mazda's advance design group.

Mazda Motor CEO Hisakazu Imaki said he and Executive Vice President John Parker gave designers "strict instructions for instilling "zoom-zoom" into the design." However, "we gave them no details," Imaki said.

Added Parker: "Many designs of concept vehicles are close to production. We decided it was time to give our designers some freedom of expression to stay on the leading edge."

Mazda's Japanese studios in Hiroshima and Yokohama, as well as its California and Germany studios, are competing to create Mazda's new design language. The German studio created a small car for the Frankfurt auto show in September. The Senku came from Yokohama. The California studio will create a concept vehicle for the Detroit show in January.

The Senku's body-side sheet metal has the optical illusion of "flame surfacing" similar to the BMW Z4. But the apparent concave-to-convex sheet metal bending is actually two convex surfaces joined at a crease. By doing that, the car's rocker panel area swoops under the car more dramatically, Iwao said.

"We needed tension in the side panel. The engine is behind the front axle, so we needed to show the energy coming out of the car. That's why there is no negative (concave) panel," Iwao said.

Jim Hall, an analyst with AutoPacific in Southfield, Mich., said here that there are two ways to design a design-theme car. One is as a sheet metal sketch, which bears no resemblance to anything in the lineup. The other is as a theme car, which shows a deliberate and obvious direction toward an existing vehicle. The Senku is the former, Hall said.

"The Senku has a lot of ways it can be interpreted," Hall said. "It gives latitude for designers in the future, but how much of this ends up in actual cars depends on the vehicle type and positioning. We'll probably just see a part here and a part there."
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-Bern

 

HEY i just got this last night. got meaning understand. see the Mazda3 is outselling civic in many places. But what Mazda doesnt have is a 3 coupe. so this is probably a Mazda3 coupe to compete with the Civic Si! It probably wont share any body panels with the sedan or 5 door just like the 5 door doesnt share any with the sedan. So it would be a MX-3 and they are leaving open having a rotary option so it would double as the RX-3. heheheheheheheheh cant wait for the auto shows now!!

 

Yeah, I just don't think so...

 

i went to focus group... yay me.. 100 bucks earned yay

 

which part?

 

I don't know how to explain it...you'd have to see the car.

But, I really don't think it is a mazda3 coupe. The car a had much more sleek design than the mazda3. I suppose that anything could happen though.

 

it can be whatever you want to, a mazda3 or a mx-3 as long as there is a rotary version thats RWD its all good.

 

Amen!

 

http://rotarynews.com/node/view/713

its oficial

now mazda put a rotary in that thing!!!!!!!!!

 

LOL, that report could have been made up from someone that read this thread. If you read it, it sounds like somone just read this thread, then wrote a story about it.
I don't believe it yet.

 

interesting.

The most obvious question if true is why, but it could be that with the rotary hybrid Mazda5, they are simply out of capacity, or they decideded to use to extra capacity they had for some other vehicle.

We know the 4ports are available, and 4ports have historically always been the FI blocks.

let the rumor mill run wild. I'm still surprized Mazda is building another sports car.

 

ahem oh look it looks like zoom44 was saying this for awhile now
https://www.rx8club.com/general-automotive-49/rx3-concept-loses-rotary-75944/

 

^^^^we have for a long time^^^^^

 

true you too

 

if mazda decides not to put a rotary on this thing they better get ready to introduce the rx-7 replacement

 

I don't know what you don't believe?!?!?! RN.COM don't spout BS

but others heard too... see:

http://www.thecarconnection.com/inde...4&article=9573

Cheers,

-Bern

 

The reason is pure market economics, and research; plain and simple... the studies have shown that the general public prefer, and are more comfortable with piston power... so potential sales is driving this deal... Also, this is NOT a sports car, but an entry level coupe, in the spirit of the Scion Tc, Acura RSX, etc... but it's RWD!

-Bern