saw this on the cover of superstreet, had to share it with you fine folks. z0mg

http://www.superstreetonline.com/fea...i_7/index.html

 

they ruined the 7 that lies under all that garbage!

 

Wow... that's.... interesting. I really like the back end and headlights, even if it does bite the GTR a bit.

 

I like it . *Shrug*

 

+1 on ruining the 7. I love the looks of the 7 with a nice kit.

 

If you paint it some other color than baby powder blue might be cool. The body kit rear is neat, the front sucks for me.

 

I love it. Too wide though.

Front looks like a TVR

 

re has the best carz evar!

 

The wheels, the wheels. The bumper, the bumper. I love 'em

 

i like the wheels a lot

 

That RX-7 is gorgeous! Wether stock or done up , Mazda made a timeless car!

 

Isn't this car originally have its rear wheels covered?

 

yeah i think so. if you follow the link, there is a picture with some sort of cover. looks like *** so i'm glad they keep it like this for most of the shoot

 

Think its awesome. Original 7 is sweet too but love the lines on this one. Read the article, pity its not more powerful :-(

 

I like the looks of the car, despite the color which is pretty horrible. The wheel covers are actually on both the rear wheels and the front. The front wheels have the covers drilled into them... Wheel covers are JDM or something I guess, but I think they look horrible, and thankfully Super Street asked RE's son to take off the covers before the shoot.

 

That car has been posted a bunch in the JDM thread. These are the first pics I've seen without the wheel covers though. RE Amemiya was inspired by the Taiki concept.

 

From what i hear , one of the guys here at my job is JDM crazy and tells me that this is the next big fad in Japan. So you can expect that fad to be here rather soon.

I just don't get it, why blow alot of money on some great looking wheels then drill holes into them to cover them up with wheel covers?

And the sad thing , this fad is not new, professional motorsports has been doing this since the early 80's , especially on the IMSA GTP cars. The 787B actually ran disc on there wheels or would run disc wheels on high speed tracks such as Le mans. I can see them being used on a race car, but on a street car, it looks cheap and poser like.

 

what wheel covers are youll talking about :S

 

i normally hate crazy body jobs (IE anything out of stock) but I kinda like this one.

 

As ugly as the rear may be, every inch is functional since it's made by Amemiya. A quality job by rotary king.

 

If you look at the actual Super Street mag, I have a copy in front of me, the beautiful RX-7 is sporting wheel covers, the original poster forgot to give us a scan of the RX-7 with the wheel covers on.

And probably for good reason...hehehe

EDIT: Here ya go ,SS had a photo of it on there web site
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thanks and those are GROSS lol

 

HEHEHEH, I know...

The car is perfect , those stupid wheel covers make it go from Hero to Zero!
Nah i am joking, but the covers do thumb it down some.


I really like how they used Lotus elise lights into the design and that nose is drop dead sexy! Almost looks like that red RX-9 concept rendering.

 

The best thing you an do to an FD is take it's engine and turbos out and throw them away. The worst thing you can do to an FD is change the way it looks.

 

That RX9 concept is amazing, I'd definitely buy that. I actually bought that issue of SuperStreet, and the car looks o much better in a magazine. And when you read the article it seems to make more sense. Basically, he took an aging car and made it look brand new, from the future even. I think it was a great job.