Mazda RX-7 News

If you are a fan of Japanese sports cars, then 2020 has been an exciting year

The Japanese sports car is making a comeback, in a big way, with upcoming models like the Nissan 400Z and Subaru WRX waving the JDM flag into the new decade, but there's a number of classic performance nameplates that we'd still like to see join them.Many

Mazda has been teasing and then closing the door on a new RX sports car for years now, and we’re seemingly no closer to a proper reboot of the rotary icon

Mazda has just teased the world (again) with talk of an incoming rotary engine, with online sleuths discovering the message after translating one of the brand's official videos celebrating the 50th anniversary of Mazda's famed engine technology.The video

A new patent unearthed in Japan may be another key indicator Mazda is planning on reviving the iconic RX-7.

Mazda has finally given us a sneak peek of its exciting new rotary-powered range-extender EV, and confirmed that Australia is one of the key markets in its rollout.

Drop-top version of production RX-Vision is not part of the plan, according to Mazda. The situation is as predictable as night following day. A car manufacturer reveals a sexy new coupe concept that hints at a future production model, and the media discussion quickly turns to the likelihood of chopping off the roof to create a convertible. Most of the time the eventual answer is yes, given the evergreen demand for such ironically seasonal models, which can inevitably be sold at a hefty premium over their coupe basis. However, car brands tend to leave us hanging ‘til some time into the coupe’s model life, or at least after its production debut to comment on the potential of a soft or folding hardtop version. Not so with the Wankel-engined Mazda RX-Vision concept shown at this week’s Tokyo motor show, with global research and development boss Kyoshi Fujiwara frankly dismissing the idea of a convertible as part of their plan for a new flagship sports car.  “MX-5 is enough I think,” he said before reminding us that the customer is always right by adding; “If huge volume I consider.” Mazda has made similar demand-based decisions before, including the surprise arrival of the heavier but ultimately more successful folding hardtop version of the previous-generation MX-5 twelve months into its model life. Incidentally, Mazda is known to be working on a return of a folding hardtop version of the new ND MX-5, but thankfully retained the purity of the soft-top for the new model’s debut. Mazda also produced a convertible version of the rotary-powered RX-7 between 1987 and 1992, but were hardtop-only for the FD-generation RX-7 and the RX-8. Would you like to see an RX-Vision convertible? Tell us in the comments below.

Mazda releases teaser shot of new sports coupe concept for Tokyo motor show - hotly tipped to mark the return of its rotary engine.

A reborn Mazda RX-7 was never ‘on’, says Mazda.A new version of Mazda’s iconic RX-7 sports-car is officially dead. In fact, the project was never “on”, the managing executive officer of Mazda, Masahiro Moro, has formally confirmed.Despite consistent speculation over the past three years Mazda was planning a rotary-powered sports-car in time for the engine’s 50th anniversary in 2017, Mr Moro has ruled it out once and for all -- even though development continues on the engine.Speaking to Australian media at the Los Angeles motor show overnight, Mr Moro said: “Rotary engine development has continued. We have allocated some resources to keep developing engines (but) we never ever put a program of a sports car. That’s not on and off, that’s off.”Mr Moro said engineers and enthusiasts inside Mazda were pushing for a reborn RX-7 or RX-8 sports-car but the company will instead invest in its mainstream models and more fuel-efficient engines to meet strict fuel economy targets in 2020.a successor to the turbocharged Mazda3 MPS hot hatchCX-9 seven-seat soft-roaderthe superseded CX-7“range extender” for an electric vehicleexperimental Mazda2 hatchback

Mazda is getting closer to the revival of the iconic RX-7.