The Mazda RX-9 Could Be A 400bhp Rotary Weapon
After teasing the world with the RX-Vision concept earlier this year, Mazda has got the ball rolling again with plans to reveal a successor to the RX-8 at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show.
Japanese website Holiday Auto has managed to get some inside information on the car, and the stats make for epic reading. The RX-9 could feature a 1.6-litre, twin-rotor turbocharged powertrain which should be good for at least 400bhp of rotary scream.
Those figures would make the RX-9 the most powerful production car ever produced by Mazda, but all this power will seemingly come at a cost. Estimations sit at around $80,000 (£60,500) which would make it nearly three-times the price of an RX-8. But for a return to rotary power for Mazda, I’m sure we’d be willing to pay the price!
Mazda has already trademarked the RX-9 badge, so fingers-crossed we will see a new rotary king by the end of the decade.
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In other news, GM ramps up production of LS crate engines to keep up with all the engine swaps that will inevitably come with the new Rotary.
Are they still keeping the carbon fibre wheels from the vision concept?
Cant wait to LS swap it
Rotary never dies
This will make 4nity in JDM.
Nissan GT-R 2017
Honda NSX 2016
Toyota Supra 2018
Mazda RX-9
If any of you don’t get it, this is just like the Holy Trinity of Hypercars.
Idk if i like it?
Hell ya
Can i say that i like the RX-9 concept way more than the RX-Vision?
I just hope it doesn’t have the same front as the mazda 3…
I love when the concept that a random dude makes looks so good then when Mazda makes one they somehow screw it up xD