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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80k? It’s still less than an NSX
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y every car we want recreated come put as super cars :/. aint no one wanna drift a super car.
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Is it just me that thinks it wouldn’t be an RX-9? The RX-8 was named because it’s bigger than the 7, just like the MX-6 or the MX-3 are bigger and smaller compared to the MX-5. It’s probably going to be a new generation of RX-7 if they really know what they’re doing.
Or they could make this the rx9 and than a less powerful and cheaper version named rx7
Concept is sexier, but I like the producing version. Let’s hope for improvements on that rotary, you know, so it doesn’t crap out after 80 thousand miles.
They should do a miata eith this engine
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