Mazda RX9

[MadDog70]

Different designs.

[SkyDevils]

Very SWEE...

[Hermitage]

Oh Gawd no! Don't like it one bit! It looks like a random mish-mash of other cars done by some computer simultation. Opel VX220 front-end looks dated. The bottom heavy rear-end is simply unappealing. Just as well this isn't going into production!

 

Bring back the RX-7 puuuuh--leeese!!! Just lookit the proportions on this beauty...

 

 

 

All Hail the FD3S!!!

[I-LOVE-CARS]

The red concept car front like the present Mazda 3 front....

[Mllcg]

Oh Gawd no! Don't like it one bit! It looks like a random mish-mash of other cars done by some computer simultation. Opel VX220 front-end looks dated. The bottom heavy rear-end is simply unappealing. Just as well this isn't going into production!

 

Bring back the RX-7 puuuuh--leeese!!! Just lookit the proportions on this beauty...

 

 

 

 

 

All Hail the FD3S!!!

 

classic. speed also owns the RX8 and most prob RX9

[RoadTricks]

the side mirror is to slice people walking on the streets into half when you are speeding near the kerb?

 

such side mirror can't see s--t.

haha!how the hell is that thing called side mirrors?

[Hermitage]

classic. speed also owns the RX8 and most prob RX9

 

For sure mate! If you look at the prices people are asking (and getting!) for this car, you will also see that it holds it's value pretty well.

 

That being said, it's also rumoured to be highly unreliable and maintenance costs are sky high!

[Mllcg]

For sure mate! If you look at the prices people are asking (and getting!) for this car, you will also see that it holds it's value pretty well.

 

That being said, it's also rumoured to be highly unreliable and maintenance costs are sky high!

 

rotary engines are like that

[Solar]

high maintenance cost is just the rotary engine or together with something else? gear or it is just unreliable?

can't be much more than the scooby right?

 

got tempted... perhaps driven a wagon for too long.. getting tired of the big unwieldy butt...

2+2 right? with 2 young kids at the back means no more in-laws

[DACH]

New RX-9 still coming?

 

https://www.motor1.com/news/249330/mazda-rx-9-render-rotary-comeback/

 

 

If there’s any Mazda that we would really love to see back in production, it would be the RX series and its famed rotary engine. It’s more likely to comeback as RX-9, a successor to the RX-7 and RX-8, with the latter stopped production in 2012. Although the marque has yet to officially confirm the nameplate, we couldn’t be more thrilled about it, especially with an RX-8 seen being tested near the Nürburgring late last year. That test mule was one step closer to the Wankel engine’s return in an internal combustion engine (not as a range-extender for an EV lineup), but this render is that bit of hope taking form.

The RX-9 is envisioned to be a class above the Miata roadster, which will have the same configuration – front engine, rear-wheel drive, and ready to kick some ass. As this render suggests, it will have a coupe form to represent the brand’s Kodo design language, with long hood to house the rotary engine, crowned with Mazda’s signature grille. It’ll be taking cues from the RX-Vision Concept from 2015, albeit, less imposing yet more muscular on its front and rear fender flares.

There are no concrete details about the interior cues yet, but it will most likely carry Jinbai Ittai (the oneness between the horse and its rider) and Mazda’s interpretation of the pure joy of driving. As a sports coupe, this speculation isn’t far-fetched.

The greatest thing in the RX-9 is its rotary engine, which is likely to be called SkyActiv-R (still based on the RX-Vision Concept). Mazda’s currently in the development stage of the Wankel engine, with a filed patent suggesting that it will be rotated 180 degrees from before to put the exhaust ports on top for a shorter piping to the turbocharger, thus, less lag. The patent also suggests a tri-angle rotor and new fuel injectors that are closer to the combustion chamber, hopefully for better fuel efficiency and emissions.