MAZDA Coupe Concept - RX9 Confirmed for 2020 - Concept to be Reveled TAS2017

Mazda Says It Will Build RX-Vision If You’ll Buy It

It’s another episode in the rotary saga; this time taking place at the sidelines of the Concorso d’Eleganza where Mazda showcased their stunning RX Vision concept.

Mazda’s design director Kevin Rice spoke to Top Gear about the design philosophy that the company wants to follow. “If you look at the Ferrari 275 GTB or the Ferrari 330, and all those Italian cars through the late 50s, 60s and 70s, they were very pure, very clean and very exciting,” he says.

“The modern world is busier and more exciting, but we respect those values of purity and beauty. They were valid then, and – if nobody else wants to do it – we want to resurrect those values,” Rice added.

This is why the company brought the RX Vision to one of the most exclusive classic car events in the world, to showcase their will to bring back a cleaner and effortlessly beautiful design language and the positive feedback caught them off guard.

“We were overwhelmed with the reaction to the RX Vision,” says Kevin. “Inside Mazda, we all love the car, but to see the reaction of the people here at Villa – car fanatics of the highest level – and for them to be impressed has kind of shocked us. In a good way.”

When asked when Mazda will finally green-light the concept for production he simply smiles and says that they would love to build it, implying that it’s not that easy for them. What makes it difficult is of course the rotary powertrain. As is, the concept car doesn’t feature any running gear as it’s just a design study.

“Nobody else would have developed the rotary engine,” says Kevin. “We thought we could get something good out of it, which we did, but we never stopped developing it. We didn’t just leave it with the RX-8. In the back rooms at Mazda, we’re still developing it, and when the world’s ready to buy another rotary, we’ll be ready to provide it."

The Japanese company has officially admitted in the past that they have a small dedicated engineering team working on the rotary engine for the past eight years, looking for a breakthrough.

The increasingly stricter emissions standards combined with Mazda’s limited budget might not be enough to bring back the rotary engine. Some people believe though that if enough fans demand their rotary power back, Mazda will do them the favor.

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CTidda said:

Looks like a Aston

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Mazda RX-9 Tipped For 2020 Launch



Either dreams do come true or Mazda has been manipulating us all along. Four months after the automaker’s global director and senior managing executive officer Yuji Nakemine doused rumors of an RX sports car, a new report from Japan’s Holiday Auto magazine indicates that the long-awaited sports car successor to the RX-7 and RX-8 is actually going to be built.

According to the magazine, the model will be called the RX-9 and it will be launched on January 2020 as one of the highlights of the Japanese automaker’s upcoming 100th anniversary. The full details surrounding the new sports car have yet to be revealed, but some interesting nuggets of information have been mentioned, none more important that Mazda’s plan to use a new 1.6-liter twin-rotary engine that may or may not come with turbocharging and compression ignition. It is believed that the powertrain will be able to produce around 400 horsepower. A previous rumor indicated that the powertrain will actually come in a hybrid setup to allow electric turbocharging. That said, the new report from Holiday Auto made no mention of that specific configuration.

The magazine did say that Mazda is looking at a weight of no more than 1,300 kilos (2,204 pounds) for the RX-9. The objective, it appears, is to keep the weight as low as possible to improve the car’s aerodynamics and maximize the potential of the new rotary engine. Such a setup would make the RX-9 a potent performance coupe that can live up to the expectations of being one of the highlights of the company’s centenary celebrations.

A concept version has been touted to make an appearance at the 2017 Tokyo Motor Show with the final production model scheduled to appear two years later at the same show.

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millenial said:

Think this will be around $50k?

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KeVeNMaYnE said:

2,200lbs and 400 hp? Sounds like it's going to be sick, dangerous, but sick.

Sounds too good to be true thought o

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