Rotary Experimental...hmmm

is that because after 30 + years Mazda hasn't decided if they are going to produce these rotary engine thingy's...

 

I'd like to use a life line and call up Rotarygod or Zoom44.

 

What a coincidence. I was just wondering the same thing.

 

now thats funny
but this has been covered before

 

The real confusion comes when I go home and my mom thinks I'm talking about her Lexus RX300.

 

You guys are all wrong

It's Rotary XTREME!!!!!!!!!!!!

Because it's so XTREME!!


XTREME!!!!!

If you'll excuse me, im going to go slam my ***** in a car door, because like the rx-8, i'm XTREME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Lol. That's the very first thing I thought of when I read the question...

 

Rotary Experimental! Now I feel like a damn caged rat trying to find my cheese. Guess I'll get in my car and experiment with 9k RPMs, definitely something ordinary Piston engines can't do

 

ahaahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahaha

 

You guys are all wrong!

Webster defines RX as follows:

"Main Entry: RX
Pronunciation: "är-'eks
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of <rx>, symbol used at the beginning of a prescription, abbreviation for Latin recipe, literally, take -- more at RECIPE
: a medical prescription"

Hahahahaha. JUST KIDDING!

 

Frankly, this one rings the most true to me. I'm not buying the eXperiment notion. Mainly, because the hanging question is, what, then, is the X in the MX series? Nothing experimental about the MX-5, or my old MX-6. The R clearly seems to designate "Rotary", and M somehow seems to mean something like "uM, not a rotary" (ok, I have no idea how you get M for "piston"). X would make sense for Xport in both cases.

 

The first Mazda Rotary in the USA was the R100. The second one was the RX2, then RX3, RX4, & RX7. Each one had a different name in Japan. I see no way that the X is for experimental, but could stand for export. I really feel it was just some marketing guy that knew of the various high quality cars like the Jag XJ and picked the RX only for marketing.

 

How about Rotary "Generation" 1, 2, 3, etc

Looking at the last post I would think that the X stands for the generation.

RX-8 = generation 8 rotary engine

 

This one makes a lot of sense. Or maybe I'm still in Business Statistics mode, OMG please someone help me!!!

 

I GOT IT!

Maybe the R (rotary) just sounds cool with the X!

 

MX = Motoring eXperimental

remember, when the Miata first came out in 1989, it was an eXperiment by Mazda to see if the 2 seat roadster is still a viable market

guess what the new CX stands for on the CX-7, "Crossover eXper......"

 

dunno.. but i know "Renesis" is stood to mean "Rotary Evolution Genesis" if that helps, lol

 

I also thought the rx meant rotary experimental . However, I like Rx-aight's idea that r denotes rotary and the x denotes generation That makes so much sense. Even if that isnt what it means, im gonna tell people that

 

Here's a link to what it stands for....
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Rotary+Experiment+%237+(Mazda)

 

nope, doesnt help...

 

It doesn't stand for experimental, you guys are funny. Mazda uses standard naming conventions, more so than any other manufacturer in the world. Since it is Japanese in origin I am sure X means something significant. Remember Racer X in Speed Racer, that show came out a few years before the first Mazda rolled out in the late 60's? Think it might be like that.

X means sport
M means piston
R means rotary

Here are some examples

RX-2 (Rotary Sports Car)
RX-3 (Rotary Sports Car)
RX-7 (Rotary Sports Car)
RX-8 (Rotary Sports Car)

CX-7 (Cross Over Sports Vehicle)

MX-3 (Piston Powered Sports Coupe)
MX-5 (Piston Powered Sports Roadster)
MX-6 (Piston Powered Sports Coupe)
MX-06 (never in production in US)

323 (Low end commuter car)
626 (Mid Range Family Car)
929 (High End Luxary Car)

Mazda Millenia (Only survivor of the $250M Mazda Eunos platform they developed in the early 90's. Least I think it was Euons, been 10 years)

Mazda3
Mazda5
Mazda6

B-2000 (Truck 2li)
B-2200 (Truck 2.2li)
B-3000 (Truck 3.0li)
B-4000 (Truck 4.0li)

And don't forget my first car

Mazda GLC (Good Little Car) Seriously!

Oh yeah, the 808 too.

 

The one you left out is the one that shoots that theory all to pieces.... the RX-4.

NOBODY would call that Buick imitation a "sports" car!

....and in the case of the RX-3, I would have to say the X stands for "Shitbox" (Bills to prove!) it took me thirty years, but I can finally see it for what it was!

 

Rotary Crossover.... haha.....

 

The first rotary car in the US was the R-100. The prototype for the next car was "RX-2" (where RX meant "rotary experimental"). They liked the sound of that better than R-200, or whatever, so the following rotary cars were called RX-?.

 

Why doesn't someone call Mazda and just ask them?