According to The Car Connection's Tokyo report of Mazda Press Conf. (Wed.)
a mini RX8 is being shown at N.A. Intl Autoshow in Detroit. It's described as a 2 seater.

 

Wouldn't that be the RX7?

 

nope is a diferent car, it shares the rx-8/miata platforn but is diferent.

 

When is the auto show?

 

here's the article

looks like we'll have to find out in January :D

http://www.thecarconnection.com/Auto...291.A9488.html

 

A 2 seat rotary would be an Rx7 . . . the 4th gen

 

I belive they are going to call it an RX-3 and the piston counterpart its going to be the new mx-3.

if it's rear wheel drive it's goin to be very similar to a rx-7 firts gen .

 

From the article "The newcomer is being designed and developed by Mazda North America, based in Irvine, Calif."

Maybe it is the same car that people on this forum were participating in Mazda focus groups on.

 

some one said that the guys at rotary news saw this thing at SS8 in the basemant or something, maybe they can give us a hint.

come on guys is it hot?

 

2008 (ie, late 2007) is a long ways away

 

Love child between an RX8 and a Miata.

 

might not be a bad thing...

 

I think I should book my ticket to Detroit now. Thank you Franz Von Holzhausen.

 

no when mazda says 2008 they mean in the year 2008 not what the US thinks of my 2008 beginning in 2007

 

yeah, but it will be 2006 for the detroit auto show so then its really on 2 years from the date we see this baby.

 

When you read the article, it never says anything about a rotary engine though. but mazda is going all out with rotaries at the tokyo show. this might hint to mazda expanding the number of cars have rotaries.

 

DAMIT!!!!!! im going to have to get a bigger garage

 

To call a new car the RX-7, it would first have to eclipse the last RX-7 in ever way. This will most likely be an S2000 competitor. A new RX-7 would have to be a new Japanese supercar and this doesn't sound like it.

 

you can see the piston engine on the new concept car at mazda corporate site... under innovations engines..

 

link?

 

Mazda has said the RX-8 has a planned 6 year life span. That would put the second gen RX-8's arrival at around 2009/10. With this so called mini-RX-8 (or RX-3-ish car) showing up in 2008, that will make an almost back to back launch of new rotary sports cars.

I think Mazda could go one of three ways with this car/platform:
1) Cheap, fun, fairly quick, rotary powered RX-3 "like" entry 2 seater sports car. Competes with the Scion tc.
2) Cheap, fun, fairly quick, piston powered MX-3 "like" entry 2+2 sports coupe. Still competes with the Scion tc.
3) Relatively expensive ($37K-ish base), ultra fast halo rotary car. Of course, that's eveyone's favorite dream car, the 4th gen RX-7.

Mazda seems to be headed towards options 1 or 2. But if we start so see new GT-Rs, Supras, and NSXs making a strong revival, Mazda could have a change of heart and go with option 3.

 

any thoughts?

https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...chmentid=61142

 

It won't look like that.

That was some JDM photoshopper's guess of what it might look like. The JDM mags are notorious about plopping any kind of artist's pipe dream, just to have a picture to go along with their story.

 

thanks for your info glad it was some JDM photoshopper's guess hate to see a look alike 8

 

Option one and too, I think they will ofer the car as a rotary and piston engine RX-3 an MX-3
too with one shot.