Take your star. Low hanging fruit can still taste good.

Oooh, this car is about an hour away from me. Close enough that I could go check it out.....

Even though it’s a generator, that’s still a completely different application. I think the perfect use of a rotary generator is in this very scenario. It comes down to size, packaging, and the fact that Mazda has been designing these very engines for over 50 years. A one rotor engine will be very flat and isn’t going…

Thanks, Mazda. I’ve been waiting a long time to buy a brand new rotary powered vehicle. I didn’t anticipate it was really going to be an electric 6, but I guess beggars can’t be choosers. Even though I was very specific about the RX-9 part.

The use of a generator and automotive engine are completely different. This is a very good use of a rotary engine. It can be tuned for a very fine RPM range and load. Think of a normally aspirated rotary at idle, but it just does that forever.

I tried to watch it. I really did. And I agree that they should do more of them, but once I saw that stupid stage finish flag come out, I lost interest. It stayed on through the end of the second stage (mostly because the football teams my wife and I like were both getting beaten badly), but I wasn’t engaged enough to…

There’s just so many things unbelievably wrong with this story, I’m not even sure where to begin. She wants to minimize trips to the bank, but openly says the freezer was temporary? Then why did it contain what you’ve described as your entire life savings? The fridge is a fireproof safe? You don’t triple check you’ve…

I’ve never been more proud to be a Mazda owner. 

“Hey, let’s finally invite journalists to drive and review the car! Let’s also put felt panels all over the interior and still put the thing in camouflage!”

Panasports or a Panasport replica.

I wonder how many people are aware that oil provides roughly 1/3 of the cooling for a rotary engine?

I’ve written and read enough posts about RX-7s on this website to know that a sad number of people simply dismiss it for being “unreliable.” And I don’t think that’s fair. I think anything can be reliable as long as you maintain it properly. This is also something we’ve argued on the site before. These engines are…

It’s Harbor Freight. The whole rig is sub-optimal, but buying something from HF that we want to try for the first time, only need once, etc. is a compromise many of us have made. 

David now has the ability to turn his rusted shit boxes into possibly poorly welded shit boxes (hopefully not so poorly with practice). This is a phenomenal development.

To me, this is just further proof NASCAR is dying a slow death. A championship winning team (from last year, not a decade ago) can’t find a sponsor? Decaying TV ratings, sponsors leaving, empty seats, when will NASCAR wake up?

I’ll reserve judgement until the camo comes off. But as others have mentioned, it looks generic. 

If it was closer, I’d be on my way right now. Assuming the body is in good condition and everything is mostly there, this is a great project if that’s what you want. 

Never did I think that in a story about “Monkey Mondays” being cancelled that you could bury the lede of service ponies. I had to Google it, but it turns out this is an alternative when a dog is not an option.

The exhaust system overheat light on the FC and FD (not sure if first gens had an equivalent at any point in their run) was one of the stranger warning lights on cars. On my FC, the sensor is below the passenger seat. If that light illuminates, odds are your catalytic converter is toast and needs replacing. The warmth…

I think there’s some sort of middle ground between 2,000 and 100,000 miles.