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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Renders look like a Mustang with Mazda 6 styling. I like it
Allright, time to win the lottery and buy one of every edition.
The rotory might not be dead any more
THE ROTARY IS ALIVEEE
LEZ CELEBRATE
Damn thats alot of dough for just another rotary roadster. 80k? Im guessing power output will be more or at the very least it will be sharing a very lightweight mx5 platform once we get more details. But still thats alot of dough. Maybe someone confused the 8 with the 3 idk
This is awesome and surprisingly cheap as well considering that the gtr costs 20k more and the ft1 probably won’t be very cheap either with Toyota considering a hybrid powertrain. If this makes it to production, it is my hope that it can surpass the RX7 name just as the rx8 failed to do.
Prepare for LS swapped RX-9s
Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
Kinda looks like it has eaten a NSX
brap intensifies
1.6 litre ? Is that the size of the rotary “chamber” ? Sorry if that’s a dumb question