Mazda RX-VISION Concepts
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Mazda to Unveil New Sports Car Concept at Tokyo Motor Show - Inside Mazda
Mazda to Unveil New Sports Car Concept at Tokyo Motor Show - Inside Mazda
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Not sure where you got $10k more than a BRZ though. If it is 200-220hp, 2,500lbs, it would probably be starting at a similar price point to the BRZ, or 25-26k I'd expect. 10k higher for a GT trim makes sense, that is standard for Mazda, but compare similar trims, not one top trim and one base trim.
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Mazda's Tokyo concept has rotary power and could preview new RX-9 coupe | Auto Express
Now the question remains: will they state the power? Doesn't look hopeful based on the article.
Now the question remains: will they state the power? Doesn't look hopeful based on the article.
Mazda reveals teaser pic of sporty coupe concept ahead of Tokyo show, it will receive SkyActiv-R rotary power and may have RX-9 badging
Mazda has confirmed its sports car concept at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show features a new rotary engine called SkyActiv-R and will be a two-door two seater. At a dinner prior to the show, head of research and development Kiyoshi Fujiwara told Auto Express: “We want to return the rotary engine to the market some day soon. It’s our heart and soul.
“In 2017 it is the 50th anniversary of the Cosmo Sports (Mazda’s first production car with a rotary engine). Therefore we want to announce something in 2017 – and not a concept car.”
And the concept is said to hint strongly at what might be expected from a production car. Fujiwara explained that: “The concept car is not completely [the look of the production car], but some visions of it is in it.”
Although no technical data is available for the engine that will appear in the concept yet, it is understood it will be a pure rotary, with no electric assistance, as has been speculated. But Fujiwara says advances in technology will allow for superior efficiency – always a big criticism of rotary power.
He continued: “We realise the fundamental structural problem of the rotary, but recently new materials have been developed and also some measuring, sensing, technology has been updated. We can analyse the combustion in the engine by computer. That can help.”
“Hybrid is one future possibility for rotary engines but at first we have to show the rotary engine itself to the fans. Two years ago we showed a kind of usage of the rotary as a range extender, but many of the fans complained.
“They said firstly you have to develop a car itself with a rotary engine. [After that], then I can expand some of the business for rotary engines – that is the request from the fans.”
Tokyo concept is a 2-door, 2-seater
And president and CEO Masamichi Kogai added: “It is a two-door, two-seater, a pure sports car design. It encapsulates the front-engine rear wheel drive design of the sports car. It embodies our Japanese aesthetics.”
Kogai added that a new rotary engined car would have to meet strict emissions targets for carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide, but was unwilling to speculate on launch dates. “Saying anything puts too much pressure on our engineers and I want to avoid that.”
And he also said no decision has been made as to where a rotary coupe would fit into the company’s product range. “We haven’t really talked about where the vehicle sits, whether it is going to be more upmarket than the RX-8 or below it.”
We'll find out more details, and see the concept in all its glory, at the 2015 Tokyo show.
Mazda has confirmed its sports car concept at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show features a new rotary engine called SkyActiv-R and will be a two-door two seater. At a dinner prior to the show, head of research and development Kiyoshi Fujiwara told Auto Express: “We want to return the rotary engine to the market some day soon. It’s our heart and soul.
“In 2017 it is the 50th anniversary of the Cosmo Sports (Mazda’s first production car with a rotary engine). Therefore we want to announce something in 2017 – and not a concept car.”
And the concept is said to hint strongly at what might be expected from a production car. Fujiwara explained that: “The concept car is not completely [the look of the production car], but some visions of it is in it.”
Although no technical data is available for the engine that will appear in the concept yet, it is understood it will be a pure rotary, with no electric assistance, as has been speculated. But Fujiwara says advances in technology will allow for superior efficiency – always a big criticism of rotary power.
He continued: “We realise the fundamental structural problem of the rotary, but recently new materials have been developed and also some measuring, sensing, technology has been updated. We can analyse the combustion in the engine by computer. That can help.”
“Hybrid is one future possibility for rotary engines but at first we have to show the rotary engine itself to the fans. Two years ago we showed a kind of usage of the rotary as a range extender, but many of the fans complained.
“They said firstly you have to develop a car itself with a rotary engine. [After that], then I can expand some of the business for rotary engines – that is the request from the fans.”
Tokyo concept is a 2-door, 2-seater
And president and CEO Masamichi Kogai added: “It is a two-door, two-seater, a pure sports car design. It encapsulates the front-engine rear wheel drive design of the sports car. It embodies our Japanese aesthetics.”
Kogai added that a new rotary engined car would have to meet strict emissions targets for carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide, but was unwilling to speculate on launch dates. “Saying anything puts too much pressure on our engineers and I want to avoid that.”
And he also said no decision has been made as to where a rotary coupe would fit into the company’s product range. “We haven’t really talked about where the vehicle sits, whether it is going to be more upmarket than the RX-8 or below it.”
We'll find out more details, and see the concept in all its glory, at the 2015 Tokyo show.
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< 30 mins and counting!
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hi guys
i've been following this news for the last week. It's so exciting to see something at last even if its a concept and a few years away if it goes into production.
i'll start saving now anyways lol.
i've been following this news for the last week. It's so exciting to see something at last even if its a concept and a few years away if it goes into production.
i'll start saving now anyways lol.
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omg, there's a countdown!