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Mazda RX-7

2011 Mazda RX-7

The expected on-sale date of the new-generation rotary car is 2010 to 2011.

Behind closed doors, far from the public’s eye, an anonymous source at Mazda revealed to one of our spies in Japan that there will be another rotary-engine car coming from the Hiroshima-based company. It’s still early, but a team is being assembled as you read this to produce such a car. The basis for the future car — we have yet to confirm if it will be called the RX-7 — is the 16X rotary engine, unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show last year. The 16X is an all-new Wankel — an evolution of the Renesis 13B powerplant in the RX-8 — with a revised eccentric shaft designed to produce more low-end torque. While Mazda hasn’t published horsepower figures yet, we hear it’s in the neighborhood of 200–250 bhp. (continue reading…)