A community portal about Mazda RX-7 with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Mazda RX-7 was a sports car that began production in 1978. The original RX-7 competed in the affordable sports car segment with the likes...
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A community portal about Mazda RX-7 with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Mazda RX-7 was a sports car that began production in 1978. The original RX-7 competed in the affordable sports car segment with the likes of the Nissan Fairlady Z. The styling was inspired by the Lotus Elan 2+2. It featured a unique twin-rotor Wankel rotary engine and a sporty front-midship, rear wheel drive layout, making it well balanced and appropriate for racing. The RX-7 was a direct replacement for the RX-3 and subsequently replaced all other Mazda rotary cars with the exception of the Cosmo.
Ever since Mazda introduced its ambitious Sky G gasoline and Sky D diesel engines at the 2009 Tokyo auto show, things have been looking, uh, up. But when we sat down with Robert Davis, Mazda USA senior VP of product development here on the other side of the Pacific, we were told that Mazda is also hard at work on the engine that enthusiasts know best, the famous rotary.
According to Davis, this sequel, known as 16X, will be a more revolutionary step than the revvy but rather torque... Read Full Story
Produced between the years of’78 and 2002, the Mazda RX-7 was a Japanese sports car. One unique feature of the sports car was its feature of the Wankel or rotary engine. Mazda used the RX-7 to replace the RX-3 and it eventually was the replacement for all of their rotary engines other than the Cosmo.
The Wankel engine in the first RX-7 was only 1150 cc. It was a twin rotor engine and the car was rear wheel drive. The Wankel engine was invented in Germany, however Mazda was one of the few... Read Full Story
The Mazda RX-7 was a sports car that Mazda produced between the years of’78 and 2002. One unique feature of this particular car is that it featured the Wankel engine. The RX-7 replaced the RX-3 and eventually replaced all of Mazda’s rotary engine vehicles except the Cosmo.
The rotary engine in the first of the RX-7s was only 1150 cc. The motor featured a twin rotor engine and the vehicle was rear wheel drive. Wankel invented his engine in Germany, but Mazda is one of the few car... Read Full Story
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Mazda | coupe | Mazda RX7 | sports cars | Cars | Car News This is definitely not the first time that we have heard about a rebirth of the greatest Rotary Experimental model that the Japanese automaker Mazda has ever produced and we hope that it won’t be the last. It turns out that the Zoom-Zoom brand has been preparing a successor for their current rotary powered RX-8 sports car, and while some might say that the next evolution... Read Full Story
2007 Mazda RX-8 Rotary revolutionary. By New Car Test Drive Overview For about five years in the middle of the 1970s, Mazda's rotary engine seemed poised to conquer the automotive world. Small, smooth and powerful, it promised a new generation of faster, cleaner and more efficient cars. Funny how things turned out: Today's cars are indeed faster, cleaner and more efficient than anyone then could even imagine. But they are all still motivated by the same reciprocating-piston principle that... Read Full Story
As we all heard rumors about a new 2010 Mazda RX7 being produce by Mazda, those RX7 lovers out there must be shaking with excitement, but still the question is will Mazda really release an improved RX7 or not? the answer is uncertain, base on a magazine interview on Mazda they say that they are definitely going to release a new revised rotary engine with more power and much more economy friendly in the early 2010 , but they did not mention that the car would be a 2010 Mazda RX7 , so it's... Read Full Story
Even though I occasionally make fun of rotary engines—My favorite punchline: communism worked in theory too—I’ve always loved the looks of this generation RX-7. Doesn’t it give off kind of a Batmobile vibe? Anyway, Khalid has done a fantastic job with his, head over to his page and check out the before and after pics.
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This was the first hydrogen rotary engine vehicle that Mazda made. It’s a sport coupe and is a dual-fuel vehicle without electric components. The vehicle was first tested on Japanese roads in 2004 and has since become Mazda’s premier eco-vehicle, with 30 of them on their way to Norway for government road testing there. They’ll be available for lease in Norway soon.
The drive-train and components are nearly identical to the Premacy mini-van that Mazda also produces, sans the electric... Read Full Story
This car is seen in a lot of race car movies like The Fast and The Furious, Initial D and the good thing is it was always driven by one of the movies main character I'm talking about the 1995 Mazda RX7 Supercars , and you know the reason why they use this car for those movie roles it's because Mazda RX7 is a well known great sports performer, it has an extremely great handling skills even better than the Eclipse, this car has a fairly good speed and power complete specification of a race car... Read Full Story
