I read that on another site and I pretty much brushed it off.

AutoBlog quotes "Best Car" and where did Best Car reference that information?

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx8...93ae4bd87b.jpg

Probably gonna piss someone off but IDGAF as long as I'm not perma-banned also bored at work some new trolling from Mazda.

https://web.motormagazine.co.jp/_ct/...W53TqkR-AjeS-I

EVERY-TIME I see these beauties I get a hard on....what a beautiful, sexy looking beast !...

FFS Mazda....JUST MAKE THE FUCKING THING MAZDA, YOU WILL SELL a BOATLOAD or two or three...

Yeah, they will probably sell 2 or 3 per month.

Mazda is too broke to do it right now. Sport cars never make money unless that's all you sell and you have the brand publicity to charge a premium(see Porsche). Just the cold hard truth.

If they can replicate what an everyday sport car owner wants (Supra 2020 + Corvette C8 + BRZ + Mustang + Camaro + BMW Z/M2) Mazda could have their own luxury 2+2 sports car. Keep it at the C8 base price of $50K, and they'll sell out Year 1.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx8...8e1b464251.gif

While I like Corvettes, American cars(and this extends to Japanese cars made in America) are all a bit rough around the edges in terms of fit and finish. Japanese(as in made in Japan) and German cars will not tolerate that kind of finish, and that's why you don't see something with the level of performance as a Corvette from Japan/Germany that's priced like one.

And Corvette interior isn't luxury. Anything before C7 has fleet truck interior, and C7 and C8 are not terrible, but not luxurious. Again, they are a good bang for the buck for a reason.

An RX-9 that's on the same level of performance of a Corvette? Probably in the $60k+ range easy.

It looks better every time I see it.

:lol: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8...2019-09-23.jpg

:lol:

Rotary trollingnow has elevated to Fox News: https://www.foxnews.com/auto/mazda-t...-rotary-engine

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx8...bf3c836d42.jpg

If this vaporcar has an I6, it won't be an 'R' anything, by definition. Jonathan Klein is obviously a maroon.

It's all about generating clicks and views for ad revenue. Mr. Klein is a moron and that Fox News video showed how little the Mazda marketing person knew about cars and his product. Ugh - developers work hard to meet a need (develop a car) only to be poorly communicated to the public.

So what that Image was with the cosmo was just a 6 day count down. each day had a different car and number in the background. They showed off the new mazda 3 for the Chinese market. Nothing about rotary that I saw.

I was wondering what that was. Heard nothing on Thursday. I guess we wait until the tokyo auto show.

I don't think the Chinese branch is really hinting a return. RX-8 was the only rotary sports car to be officially sold there and it was only in limited quantities, mostly in automatics as well.

Mazda uses the Cosmo Sports sometimes in various brochures for their current lineup so that's nothing new. Not that most people really get the importance of it, but it is still an interesting car to look at.

That Vision is in my office. I see it everyday. Waited too long for it. 2020 Vette here I come!

Just four months to go until 5 years is up! Got your pennies saved up for the new Mazda Rotary... well... EV? :ylsuper:



Sorry, I just be trollin'. :cool:

I hope you and all yours are weathering this storm well and enjoying your '8 every day. :)

I've got my pennies saved and looking forward to the RX-9
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You are better off melting those down and sell them as copper. It costs the government more to mint one than they are worth in the form of fiat currency.

Oh and you guys are still waiting for the RX sports car?

They haven't been copper since 1982.

After the initial reveal of the concept I was excited, but it didn't take me long to realize it was a pipe dream.

Post #3, 09/2015, so no, not waiting.

You are right, they are mostly zinc nowadays with copper plating. They still cost more to mint than they are worth in the form of currency, though.

Anyway, no, Mazda doesn't have the money or the economy of scale for rotary engines to make a rotary sports car happen, at least in the foreseeable future.