OMG!

 

haha it's sitting next to that Pininfarina electric proto

 

In that second outside shot, as a professional photographer, I can tell they did some fill flash and exposure tweaking to compensate for the shadows and darker areas of the photo. That overworking gives it that unreal look. It is hard to make a car , people and tree all look good in outside harsh backlight (look at the direction of the shadows) without large reflectors and/or added strobe lighting to fill in the faces and shadows, hence the photoshop fixes, post shooting.

The later shots are more indicative of the natural light at the location, with less post shoot manipulation.

 

im pretty sure most people on this site are more concerned about whats under the hood and if mazda will actually make it and really dont give a **** about ps lighting for the pix

 

With the length of that hood it could be an 8-rotor. Good grief!

It is pretty sexy, though.

 

Please let them make this car, please let them make this car...







...please let them make this car.

 

Honestly, there's only two ways this car is getting made:

1 - You replace all of the decision makers at Mazda with the decision makers at Ford, like yesterday. They like releasing half baked ideas on the world, as soon as they realize someone out there will buy it.

2 - Fiat/Chrysler comes back to Mazda, and says "We want that body to be our next Maserati GranTurismo, and we want 1500 per year."

Other than that, you're looking at the next Furai.
It's going to taunt and tease Mazda fans for a few years, and then die a horrible death at the hands of some idiot.

BC.

 

back off the snark. i am the one that brought up the pic itself and he was providing relevant info to someone(me) who had expressed an interest in it.

 

fixed

 

oh wow. that is unbelievable. detailer did a fantastic job on that

 

Well, it's just a feeling, but it seems like the author of that article tried as hard as he could to downplay the possibility of a new rotary car.

If one compares the original TopGear article ( Mazda will build the RX Vision if you shout loud enough | Top Gear ) with that autoblog article, one can see that the author only quoted those sentences that suited his no-rotary thesis, and completely ignored the rest.
Perhaps someone told him to make a "no rotary" article to stir some interest?

Showing the Rx Vision was a very clear pro-rotary statement from Mazda. There are very clear hints pointing toward a rotary engine, the first one being the name, as everyone knows what the R in Rx stands for.
They could have rolled out the same concept under the Kodo-vision name, or any other name if they chose to (who cares if a piston engine wouldn't fit? It's a concept), but they used Rx-vision. So they clearly wanted to let everyone know it's a concept for a rotary powered car.

Imho Mazda's directors are not so stupid as to believe that they can release such a pro-rotary statement, then not release anything and easily get away with it. They risk losing quite a few loyal customers if they do that. So if they released that concept, it means that they're very confident that they can indeed make a new rotary car, again imho. So they either already solved the technical hurdles or they are still working but they are in the final steps.
If/when the new rotary car is released, it will not be identical to the Rx-vision (obviously that's just a concept that needs several modifications before one can even think about producing it), but they sure have a styling benchmark to refer to for the production car.

Andrea.

 

If they cant build it with mass production no stop don't send it to museum or burn like furai.

Come on guys do it ! If you don't have any chance think again and build it with limited production but please build it !

Please build it limited production like Lexus did with LFA.

Make it 500 or 1000 piece get it real. Put it 16x 2 rotor or 24x 3 rotor with hybird powerplant for range extender like all nowadays sports car have.

 

Hey 200mph, I was responding to a poster that commented on how unnatural one of the photos looked. Obviously my post wasn't meant for you. But a couple of other members here liked my explanation.

Cheers

 

For the record, I liked it.

 

hey all you social media users, facebookers, tweeters etc go out and post pics of the car with the hashtag " #JustbuilditMazda " lets see if we cant get this ball rolling downhill

 

It is going to be a 3 rotor

 

denny can you back up that statement? please say yes

 

Sure there's enough room under that hood to fit one. Probably even a 4 rotor

 

There was a short article in one of my recent Motortrend magazines talking about the "hurdles" and that Mazda was actually testing the new motor and it needed to past the last 2-3 hurdles only. I will look for it, but was in the MT Confidential section if anyone else get a MT subscription.

 

Mazda engineers long ago were told, 'it does not have to be a 2 rotor'. This is a Halo car so who knows what they'll build and what that might look like if / when it's finally released.

 

I remember reading that, but I can't find the reference anymore.

There are a lot of important dates coming in the next few years (2017: 50 years since the 1967 Cosmo Sport and 60 years since the first run of a rotary engine; 2018: 40 years since the first Rx-7; 2020: Mazda's 100th anniversary and the year of Tokyo Olymipic Games; and I'm sure that I'm missing something), Mazda is certainly interested in properly celebrating these recurrences, so a 3 rotor car may not be off the table.

If the flagship is indeed a 3-rotor, however, I wouldn't mind seeing a 2-rotor version being sold alongside the 3-rotor flagship. That would greatly increase the sales volume and better allow to recoup the R&D costs. It would also help fill the huge gap that would form between the Miata and this hypothetical 3-rotor flagship.

#JustbuilditMazda

 

We have one buyer for sure.......the guy in the khaki pants and blue shirt.

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You caught it too Fish, I was going to mention he may be liking it a little too much..

 

Where am I gonna put the licence plate and not ruin the front fascia?!

 

it does look odd but it seems to me like this car might be a little too ambitious to come to production IMHO.