Coolest Looking Mazda - 2015 RX-Vision Concept

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"The Mazda RX-Vision rotary sports car concept introduces the next-generation SKYACTIV-R rotary engine and Mazda's vision of the ultimate in front-engine, rear-wheel-drive sports car styling. Making its world premiere at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show, the RX-Vision represents an ideal of the future that harbors the soul of the Mazda brand."

It's a rotary how cool is that. Hopefully a production version will come out.

I dig the low slung looks.

http://www.carmag.co.za/news_post/mazda-rx-vision-concept-rotary-to-return/

"“If we were to mass produce the car, the Cayman is the right kind of assumption,” said R&D chief Kiyoshi Fujiwara. “We’d like to make the weight lighter, lighter than a Cayman.”

http://www.netcarshow.com/mazda/2015-rx-vision_concept/

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Rocket-Boy said:
From the side it looks like a cross between and Aston and a Jag.
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Reminds me of a TVR's interior:

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Hope they put a 4 rotar 26B in it :D

I love rotaries but they have hardly any torque. Just pure brute RPM

Fun for sure, just not pure grunt.
 
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Pitbull said:
Hope they put a 4 rotar 26B in it :D

I love rotaries but they have hardly any torque. Just pure brute RPM

Fun for sure, just not pure grunt.
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The R26B used in the LeMans 787B put out 840.61 Nm of torque at 6500 RPM.
That's a lot of torque for a 2.6 litre engine.
The torque curve on unmodified rotaries is also fairly flat compared to a normal piston engine IIRC.
 
Paul_S said:
The R26B used in the LeMans 787B put out 840.61 Nm of torque at 6500 RPM.
That's a lot of torque for a 2.6 litre engine.
The torque curve on unmodified rotaries is also fairly flat compared to a normal piston engine IIRC.
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My biggest concern with getting a RX-8 was everyday fuel consumption(no one expected it to be great but it was horrible) and apex seals... people were reporting that they pop at 100k. Made me a sad panda so I settled for something else.

The power and torque curves always felt great to me so no problem there.
 
Vegeta said:
My biggest concern with getting a RX-8 was everyday fuel consumption(no one expected it to be great but it was horrible) and apex seals... people were reporting that they pop at 100k. Made me a sad panda so I settled for something else.

The power and torque curves always felt great to me so no problem there.
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A rotary powered vehicle is a weekend car much the same as most exotic vehicles.
Drive it on weekends and leave it in the garage for the other five or six days before it burns a hole in your pocket.
 
Paul_S said:
A rotary powered vehicle is a weekend car much the same as most exotic vehicles.
Drive it on weekends and leave it in the garage for the other five or six days before it burns a hole in your pocket.
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Sure but the RX-8 was more like a MX-5 or GT86 than a Ferrari to be fair. You could use the others daily if you like. I'd say it was even more expensive to run than a Porsche.
 
A little over a year ago, Mazda unveiled the RX-Vision concept, sparking speculation that it would revive the rotary and plonk it in a large sports car.

Indeed, rumours suggested that an RX-9 would be launched by 2020, effectively serving as a long-overdue successor to the RX-7 and RX-8 coupes.

But now CEO Masamichi Kogai has poured cold water on that theory.

As part of a wide-ranging interview, Automotive News asked the 62-year-old whether Mazda would “ever create an RX-8 sports car successor with a range extender”.

“I think that as a sports car option, the MX-5 1,5-litre or 2,0-litre conventional engine, with its power and acceleration, might be a more exhilarating experience,” Kogai said through an interpreter.

Asked whether Mazda had “plans for a larger sports car entry”, he replied simply: “No”.

The CEO did, however, confirm that the Japanese automaker was still conducting research and development around the rotary engine.

“We ended production of the RX-8 with the rotary engine. But if we were to restart production of the rotary engine again, we need to make sure it wouldn’t be just short-lived,” he said.

“We need it to meet future emissions regulations. We are still conducting our R&D activity to overcome any issues we have with emissions and fuel efficiency,” Kogai said.

Judging by the CEO’s answers in the Automotive News interview, any new rotary engine would likely first be used as a range-extender in an electric vehicle before potentially being employed as a “main traction rotary”.

http://www.carmag.co.za/news_post/no-new-rotary-powered-sports-car-says-mazda-ceo/
 
Mazda and the current state of its rotary

Mazda and its development of a new rotary sportscar has been an on again, off again drama ever since it revealed the RX-Vision Concept in 2015. A recent interview with managing executive officer in charge of technical research and integrated control system development, Mitsuo Hitomi, however, suggests the program remains alive.

The history of Mazda’s rotary rumours as far as we can track it are as follows…

In June 2014, two years after the RX-8 was discontinued, Mazda hints at a model to be revealed in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of the rotary.
Five months later, Mazda confirms it had no plans to revive the rotary.
Less than a year later Mazda unveils its RX-Vision Concept with a proposal that suggested it would see a 2020 release.
Three months later Mazda reveals that the development of the rotary is more challenging than they initially anticipated but assures fans that a reborn rotary engine is on the way.
Three weeks later Mazda’s CEO confirms that there will be no new rotary model in the future product line-up.
Eight months later we find ourselves here, with information sourced by Hitomi-san of Wheels Magazine. Hitomi-san has revealed that Mazda is still busy developing the rotary despite apparent internal indecisions around this powerplant.

“We cannot improve the rotary engine to current conventional engine levels of emissions,” admits Hitomi, though he did indicate that the current focus is on fixing common rotary-related issues such as apex seal wear and oil consumption.

Budgetary issues around the development of a new rotary remains a concern, many investors believing there to be little in the way of return on investment.

“Rotary is very important to Mazda,” Kudo-san acknowleded. “It’s Mazda’s centenary in 2020,” he added, while emphasising it to be a motivation for tech-driven launches.

Given the current state of the rotary it doesn’t look like this is a done-deal for an RX-8 successor. We’ll just have to wait and see…

http://www.carmag.co.za/news_post/mazda-and-the-current-state-of-its-rotary/
 
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