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"Welcome to another addition of RotaryNews.com: Predictions, Rumors and Lies! This article, we'll look forward to the rumors surrounding the 2007 Tokyo Autoshow and beyond. What will be in store for the RX-8? Will Mazda finally bring the RX-7 back? Is the Kabura dead? What's up with all those funky looking concepts? All this, and more is just a click through away.
Let us start off with those crazy concepts Mazda has been showing: The Senku, Nagere, Ryuga, and Hazake. Word is the 5th concept of this "Flow" style will be shown at Tokyo in October 2007, with a fully functional "next generation RENESIS." It will be a coupe, but a design study only. New technology will be displayed along side the "Flow" concept at Tokyo. We are told there is even more emphasis within Mazda to a) make the Rotary green, b) make it powerful c) make it more gas efficient and d) showcase the engineering in the car, not hide it behind black plastic. Some of the technology shown at Tokyo will make it into future product at some point, it is a question of when, and how innexpensive they can make it. Look for coverage of the 2007 Tokyo Autoshow starting late September 2007 on RotaryNews.com!
On to the current Rotary Powered offering from Mazda: The RX-8. We will see the RX-8 undergo a "Major-Minor" change this fall/winter. Some changes to the power train will occur, but there will be no Mazdaspeed version. The market "just is not there" according to inside sources. The RX-8 is slated to continue for a few more years on the current platform. It is possible the next generation RX-8 will resemble the "Flow" concepts, and will incorporate some of the technological advances under development right now.
Next up: the production model based off the Kabura concept. Word is this is still in the pipe-line, but will not be rotary powered. Sources have gone quiet on this front as of late, we are not sure if that means they want it to be a surprise at Detroit, or if they are simply not working on it.
Finally, the RX-7. <sigh> Sadly, the automotive press is falsely raising the hopes of many Rotorheads. They have been reporting an RX-7 could be out as soon as 2010. However, there are still huge up-hill battles the RX-7-philes within Mazda have to fight even to make it into the product planning stages. If the RX-7 were to be resurrected, the "Flow" concepts could be a clue on how it would look."
http://rotarynews.com/node/view/917
Let us start off with those crazy concepts Mazda has been showing: The Senku, Nagere, Ryuga, and Hazake. Word is the 5th concept of this "Flow" style will be shown at Tokyo in October 2007, with a fully functional "next generation RENESIS." It will be a coupe, but a design study only. New technology will be displayed along side the "Flow" concept at Tokyo. We are told there is even more emphasis within Mazda to a) make the Rotary green, b) make it powerful c) make it more gas efficient and d) showcase the engineering in the car, not hide it behind black plastic. Some of the technology shown at Tokyo will make it into future product at some point, it is a question of when, and how innexpensive they can make it. Look for coverage of the 2007 Tokyo Autoshow starting late September 2007 on RotaryNews.com!
On to the current Rotary Powered offering from Mazda: The RX-8. We will see the RX-8 undergo a "Major-Minor" change this fall/winter. Some changes to the power train will occur, but there will be no Mazdaspeed version. The market "just is not there" according to inside sources. The RX-8 is slated to continue for a few more years on the current platform. It is possible the next generation RX-8 will resemble the "Flow" concepts, and will incorporate some of the technological advances under development right now.
Next up: the production model based off the Kabura concept. Word is this is still in the pipe-line, but will not be rotary powered. Sources have gone quiet on this front as of late, we are not sure if that means they want it to be a surprise at Detroit, or if they are simply not working on it.
Finally, the RX-7. <sigh> Sadly, the automotive press is falsely raising the hopes of many Rotorheads. They have been reporting an RX-7 could be out as soon as 2010. However, there are still huge up-hill battles the RX-7-philes within Mazda have to fight even to make it into the product planning stages. If the RX-7 were to be resurrected, the "Flow" concepts could be a clue on how it would look."
http://rotarynews.com/node/view/917