Thank you for this. With all the love for the late model RX7s around here, as a slightly older person I feel like the first generation doesn’t get anywhere near its due appreciation. At the time it came out and, better, as it improved through its run, the first RX7 was a revelation. Light and quick, with perfectly…

A great read. I even learned a bit more about the rx7 heritage.

No, this is an accurate representation of how much oil a Mini Cooper engine needs. Just do that twice a day, every day, and you’ll be fine.

“30-year-old cars out of date” says area man. News at 10.

If these are the types of changes to be made it’ll still be gorgeous.

The concept shown looks like it means to exactly that, an exotic fighter, along the same lines as the Corvette. Besides with the Miata, Mazda has no real need to keep a new RX-# entirely “cheap”.

yeah, i was underwhelmed when i fist saw the WRX

Oh yeah...

“Aston Martin’s stale designs”

It very clearly has many design cues taken from the FD RX-7. Obviously the design will be cleaned up when the road-going model arrives. I think this concept is very promising.

I think it looks pretty good. It gives hints of FD3S in the tail lights and roof, but fully embraces Mazda’s new “Kodo” design language.

Um...hmmm...are you looking at the pictures with your eyes open?

It’s okay to be wrong.

Man, I work hard to lob solid gold over the plate all day and the throwaway line I hammer out in 30 seconds before a meeting is the one that makes it.

To say the boost will blow out your seals is an over simplification. People mod them without keeping track of the boost level. FD’s and turbo rotaries respond VERY well to flow mods. But that comes with a price: the more boost you create, the more fuel you need to get the air/fuel ratio right. It’s the lean a/f ratio…

The FD had a bad reputation because heat management was bad and the boost would blow out your apex seals. I’d assume some new tech would help this quite a bit. Also the RX-8 had a bad rap for a number of reasons from bad (undiagnosed) ignition coils to crappy reman’ed engines. Rotaries are actually quite reliable as…

It was tongue in cheek. I never said all engines should be rotaries. The rotary is fun and interesting and the planet will be just fine if Mazda makes another one. Feel free to not buy one.

I kind of wish there were more people who appreciated the unique aspects of the rotary engine and realized the “threat” to our natural world from the rotary menace is a touch exaggerated.

It’s a marketing term for their entire engineering philosophy.