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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Awesome
These toy will do me for now…lol
On the cost of this i believe mazda rather than going up against the gt86 are aiming higher and attempting to go up against the toyota supra
Will it be available in the USA?
But it’ll break down most of the time so you’ll be lucky if you got anywhere lol
This sounds wicked cool and for a concept car it looks very good
I hope that price is in pesos
I take the wankel has been developed further if so it should be topclass is it two or three rotor?
$80K? I’d rather buy a GTR.
You could get 2 GTR’s
Wow… that yellow one is one of the few concepts that I’d like to go straight into production. That is freaking gorgeous!