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Report: Mazda to Create New RX-7 and RX-9

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Report: Mazda to Create New RX-7 and RX-9

1995 Mazda RX-7

1995 Mazda RX-7 (Credit: © Mazda)

With the RX-8 out of the picture, a new report broken by the website Motoring claims that Mazda is hard at work bringing back its most legendary vehicle of all time: the mighty RX-7. I know that many reading this are laughing because such rumors fly around all the time, but obviously up to this point they have been just that, rumors. This time, the news takes things one step further by claiming that the Japanese automaker is hard at work on an RX-9, which would also be powered by a rotary engine and would be slotted above the RX-7. Interesting.

Fueling the news is the fact that Mazda is about to pull the covers off the next generation of the MX-5 Miata. The other two models would give the company a lineup of three sports cars, which is significant since Toyota is looking at developing the same kind of an offering. Considering that Nissan keeps toying with the idea of bringing the IDx to market, Honda is supposedly preparing a successor to the S2000 and the NSX, and the news becomes at least a little more credible.

Supposedly, Mazda is using its recent windfall of $1.88 billion, which is from everyone running out and buying SkyActiv models with a vigor, to fun the research and development of the two new sports cars. We won’t have to wait long to see the RX-7 in dealer lots, with the report stating that will happen in 2017, just in time to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cosmo Sport, which any good Mazda historian knows was the company’s first car with a rotary engine as well as the first volume production car to use such a powertrain.

Also according to the report, Mazda will launch the RX-9 in 2020 at the same time that the Olympic Games are being hosted in Tokyo. That date is also big since it is the 100-year anniversary for the automaker.

No definitive news is available about the setup of either car, other than the use of rotary engines. Considering Mazda’s engineering feats lately, pretty much anything is possible at this point.

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