Mazda Furai Concept ---- Next Gen RX7?
Mazda Furai Concept ---- Next Gen RX7?
Originally Posted by Motor Trend
Underpinned by a Courage C65 chassis the company campaigned in the American Le Mans Series series two seasons ago, Furai is powered by a 450 horsepower, three-rotor rotary engine, a development fans of the rotary are bound to appreciate and endlessly speculate about. Sounds like the perfect engine for an RX-7, doesn't it?
Underpinned by a Courage C65 chassis the company campaigned in the American Le Mans Series series two seasons ago, Furai is powered by a 450 horsepower, three-rotor rotary engine, a development fans of the rotary are bound to appreciate and endlessly speculate about. Sounds like the perfect engine for an RX-7, doesn't it?
Video of it in motion. I'm impressed. Very very impressed.
YouTube - Mazda Furai Concept w/ rotary sound/autotao.com
Inside view: Mazda Furai Concept Laps Buttonwillow
Nice video of the Furai from Car Magazine
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Yeah Mazda is getting their shit straight, bright futures for 'em. Only branch under Ford still makin' profits.
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http://www.motortrend.com/future/con...pt_first_look/
Video of it in motion. I'm impressed. Very very impressed.
YouTube - Mazda Furai Concept w/ rotary sound/autotao.com
Inside view: Mazda Furai Concept Laps Buttonwillow
Nice video of the Furai from Car Magazine
next gen rx7 = rx8 (have u been sleeping for a few years)?
furai = next gen 787b
You would have to be nuts to think the RX8 is the next gen RX7. The next gen RX7 will be called the RX7.
Mazda themselves admit the RX8 was not meant to continue the RX7 lineage, it was a seperate model completely.
The RX8 does not have the soul of the RX7, nor the power.
Taken on it's own merit, the RX8 is a well balanced machine. Looks good, handles good and revs to what, 10,000rpm?
But to compare it to the RX7 (say a 1993 Vintage R1), it would come up short. It is definitely low on power compared to the RX7 (a fact that Mazda is well aware of and was forced to own up to when dynos pointed out the advertised hp/trq figures were wishful thinking on the part of Mazda).
Now the car I posted up here itself is not intended to picture a future RX7 model, but rather the possible usage of the 3-rotor 450hp powerplant, and the fact that Mazda has actually engineered and built a (concept) vehicle that has some raw emotion to it and some semblance of a vicious, performance-oriented personality.
Mazda themselves admit the RX8 was not meant to continue the RX7 lineage, it was a seperate model completely.
The RX8 does not have the soul of the RX7, nor the power.
Taken on it's own merit, the RX8 is a well balanced machine. Looks good, handles good and revs to what, 10,000rpm?
But to compare it to the RX7 (say a 1993 Vintage R1), it would come up short. It is definitely low on power compared to the RX7 (a fact that Mazda is well aware of and was forced to own up to when dynos pointed out the advertised hp/trq figures were wishful thinking on the part of Mazda).
Now the car I posted up here itself is not intended to picture a future RX7 model, but rather the possible usage of the 3-rotor 450hp powerplant, and the fact that Mazda has actually engineered and built a (concept) vehicle that has some raw emotion to it and some semblance of a vicious, performance-oriented personality.
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sadly this isnt going to be a street leagle car and not an rx its a lemans car for the prototype class. its been going threw alot of testing for a while i think there supposed to introduce it to the lemans in 2009-10. cant wait to hear it in person! :cool:
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Now the car I posted up here itself is not intended to picture a future RX7 model, but rather the possible usage of the 3-rotor 450hp powerplant, and the fact that Mazda has actually engineered and built a (concept) vehicle that has some raw emotion to it and some semblance of a vicious, performance-oriented personality.
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Just curious :)
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You would have to be nuts to think the RX8 is the next gen RX7. The next gen RX7 will be called the RX7.
Mazda themselves admit the RX8 was not meant to continue the RX7 lineage, it was a seperate model completely.
The RX8 does not have the soul of the RX7, nor the power.
Taken on it's own merit, the RX8 is a well balanced machine. Looks good, handles good and revs to what, 10,000rpm?
But to compare it to the RX7 (say a 1993 Vintage R1), it would come up short. It is definitely low on power compared to the RX7 (a fact that Mazda is well aware of and was forced to own up to when dynos pointed out the advertised hp/trq figures were wishful thinking on the part of Mazda).
Now the car I posted up here itself is not intended to picture a future RX7 model, but rather the possible usage of the 3-rotor 450hp powerplant, and the fact that Mazda has actually engineered and built a (concept) vehicle that has some raw emotion to it and some semblance of a vicious, performance-oriented personality.
Mazda themselves admit the RX8 was not meant to continue the RX7 lineage, it was a seperate model completely.
The RX8 does not have the soul of the RX7, nor the power.
Taken on it's own merit, the RX8 is a well balanced machine. Looks good, handles good and revs to what, 10,000rpm?
But to compare it to the RX7 (say a 1993 Vintage R1), it would come up short. It is definitely low on power compared to the RX7 (a fact that Mazda is well aware of and was forced to own up to when dynos pointed out the advertised hp/trq figures were wishful thinking on the part of Mazda).
Now the car I posted up here itself is not intended to picture a future RX7 model, but rather the possible usage of the 3-rotor 450hp powerplant, and the fact that Mazda has actually engineered and built a (concept) vehicle that has some raw emotion to it and some semblance of a vicious, performance-oriented personality.
u r trail mix to post (funai = next gen rx7?)
LeMans prototype DOES NOT EQUAL concept car
look up the 787B
mazda has used tri-rotors in large sedan
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