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Old Nov 9, 2010 | 12:28 PM
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What's in the basement of Mazda R&D?

You'll have to watch the video to find out

http://www.goracingtv.com/11/07/2010...sement/?ref=nf
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Old Nov 9, 2010 | 12:39 PM
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They didn't show anything new, but there were some good memories there.
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Old Nov 9, 2010 | 12:53 PM
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Thanks ZOOM It brought back some memories.
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Old Nov 9, 2010 | 06:21 PM
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Let's go ZOOM ZOOM!
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Old Nov 10, 2010 | 01:03 PM
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Ummm....that guy has a lot of ***** just walking into the R&D facility. Wonder if he had the ok to do that without the Mazda rep present??
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Old Nov 10, 2010 | 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by ATL-GP
Ummm....that guy has a lot of ***** just walking into the R&D facility. Wonder if he had the ok to do that without the Mazda rep present??
You think Mazda keeps their doors unlocked? I did see a badge reader on that door. I believe it was planned.
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 07:02 AM
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No, I wouldn't think they would leave the door open...but you gotta admit, it did seem kind of sketchy.
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 07:21 AM
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I think the fact that the video was even posted on the internet is a dead giveaway that it was all staged haha.
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 07:59 AM
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Awesome find.
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 08:04 AM
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^^true
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 08:50 AM
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cool, would have like to see more. There was more then a couple more covered cars. It was definitely staged but it was cool. There is some more information about the salt flat cars on racing beat's website.
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 09:11 AM
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I was reading Car & Driver magazine when it's editors were racing the RX2 at the 24 Hrs of Nelson Ledges, driving the Bonneville racer and working with Mazda on other rotary racing activities. This is one of the several reasons I bought my first RX7.
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Old Nov 11, 2010 | 11:28 AM
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It would be nice to have some hydrogen cars (internal combustible hydrogen - not fuel cell BS hydrogen)

The only problem is need to build nuclear factory to produce it ... and there will be too many dumb people who oppose it. Takes too much energy/pollution otherwise to produce.
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Old Nov 15, 2010 | 01:04 AM
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Would love to have seen some of the other special cars hiding out in there.
Especially this the 7th RX7 built and also the Luce R130 of which the front can just barely be seen on the right hand side of this pic.


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