Read it in weep baby mazdas finally make a a real sports car again. Maybe this will bee abled to keep up with the higher hp top end car. Im gonna start saving now!!



http://magazine.windingroad.com/wind...0802/?folio=49

Seems like more of the same old song and dance sprinkled with some speculation more than anything else. Possible 3-rotor motors, drop tops, etc etc.. Yet the design still looks like ****. Mazda doesn't even trust their own rotary engines. Hinting to a possible V6 or V8 engine. What's up with that? The final productioin model Rx-8 looks plain and common when compared to a 3rd gen IMHO and the photos of that "Rx-9" don't look much better. It resembles a basterdized 350Z front end with a sloppy Aston Martin "inspired" rear thrown on top of a Rx-8. I don't know what is up with Mazda and the sports cars they have been trying to make. Seems more and more like the FD3S was sort of a one hit wonder of a car for the boys in Hiroshima. I don't see them making anything that lives up to the FD3S anytime soon. I'd just as soon buy an '09 Camaro to be honest.



http://automotive-links.mustangv8.co...2009camaro.jpg

i like it...a lot

I won't be excited about anything Mazda releases until it can SOMEWHAT compare to the FD - which I don't see happening.



Many other imports are going back to turbo monsters - EVO, GTR etc... get with the program MAZDA. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.gif

you guys see the batmobile yet?

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/27/mazda-f...over/1#comments

i think the article is bs.. nothing is set in stone.. there is still hope.. seems like the writer is just tossing around key words to make it believable.

i like the batmobile though..

I'd rock a batmobile. As long as Vicky Vail blows me while I'm driving.

not diggin that supposed rexnine..

id rather rock the hyundai genesis concept before that...

perhaps just wait to throw that threerotor renesis on an fb..

It looks like an Infinit G35, Aston Martin, and RX-8 had sex and that was the result.



I would rather pick up the Hyundai Genesis as well, or a EVO X.

i like the lines of the hyundai tooo... its pretty..

I LIKE THE ASTON!

Who does'nt????!

i concur

AMEN

i still need to get an fd, so that i can have a basis for comparison.. maybe i'll start there..

I like it! Plus I like the fact that Mazda is not just developing a new generation RX-7 but a whole new generation Rotary Engine. A 1.8 liter rotary is gonna be sweet.

uh... its actually a 1.6 isnt it? the new 16x displayed in the premacy in japan.

I think mazda is taking car of alot of problems with the new 16x rotary engine... I noticed it hase 3 oil injection nozzles per rotor, Insted of only one!! I hope that takes care of the apex seal lube problem.(I just run premix)



I really like the idea of direct injection for the fuel. It looks like the secondary injectors inject directly into the combustion chamber, and the primarys look like there in the primary ports....



One of my favorite features of the new 16X is that they stoped making the irons out of iron. The new aluminum side housing must be so lite!!!



The stroking idea is cool to its a good way to get more displacement out of the engine, And add torqe to the whole power band!!!



BUT will stroking a rotary lower the redline like a piston engine???

I say no because you are just scaling all of the parts. All of the load supporting parts will be upsized with the increase in rotor size, and stroke. In a piston engine, the block is typically unchanged, and the redline is lowered to return piston speeds to the design spec for the original engine. In addition, you now have more displacement breathing through the same valves as the original engine, so the engine will reach its torque and power peaks sooner, and run out of breath sooner. With this new rotary, they can upsize everything to accomodate the increase in displacement.

http://forums.subdriven.com/zerothread?id=3615733

another pic of the rx9 this looks much better

another

http://www.rx7club.com/attachment.php?atta...mp;d=1199406573

ewwww.. evil forum link!!!

oh by the way, it looking like an Aston car would be fitting since both Mazda and Aston Martin are under Ford... I wouldn't care as long as they keep it 2 seater and sporty and rotary!

Actually, Ford sold Aston a few months ago. Also, they are looking to do the same with Jaguar.