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Mazda Working on Small Roadster

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Good news for summer: Mazda is said to be working on a small roadster based on its home market Mazda2. Yes, they already make the Miata, one of the best sportscars ever made, but a new, small addition to the family could be fun as well.The Mazda2 is one of those Japan-only supermini cars that are Honda Fit-sized, and designed to offer as much practicality in as small a space as possible. Recently

Mazda RE - Amemiya Genki

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Isami Amemiya founded RE Amemiya Car Company in Chiba, Nihon way back in 1974. The tuning consort has been specialising in the change of cars fitted with the cyclical engine. For a long time these hit been only Mazda RX-7s. At this year's Tokyo Auto Salon RE Amemiya presents the Genki7.

The Genki7 is shapely from an RX-7 and it apparently features an engine tuned by long-time RE Amemiya collaborator GReddy. No drawing were tossed alongside the pictures unconnected from the claim that the engine will help the Genki7 \"leave everyone behind\".

Mazda Releases Special Edition Roadster in Japan

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In 1989, when Mazda launched the Miata or Roadster as it’s famous in Japan, some suspected it would go on to become the best-selling open-top sports automobile of every time, but over 860,000 vehicles later, the automobile is officially the most favourite auto in existence. And today, Mazda has liberated a special edition in Nihon to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the car.

Based on either the retractable hard-top handgun edition of the automobile or the soft-top six-speed drill version, the Roadster 20th Anniversary comes with a special ordered of equipment to find it stand discover from the regular lineup. With the flushed and black Recaro seats, 20th Anniversary badges and country fog lights are some of the prototypal details that someone the eye, connector 17in metal alloy wheels, a face strut tower bar, five-setting hot way and synthetic leather door armrests and housing elements closing off the package.

Also, you can get the Roadster 20th Anniversary in some colouration you want as long as it’s Crystal White Pearl Mica for the exterior color. For the pricing, in Nihon it starts at 2,860,000 ($29,880) for the soft-top/manual version, connector the power-retractable hardtop with the handgun goes for 3,110,000 ($32,490).

Daytona International

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Held at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 30 through 31st. First race in the 2010 Grand-Am series and the 48th running of the endurance event.

Twenty-four hours of non-stop action ended with Action Express Racing's Dayton Prototype earning the overall victory with SpeedSource Inc. triumphant in GT with their Mazda RX-8. The weekend was also supported by the 2.5-hour Continental Tire Challenge Fresh From Florida

Mazda RX-7 Dilemma - To Build or Not to Build

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At October's Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda highlighted its next procreation Sky Series of powertrains, proof that the Asian automaker sees a long future for gasoline and diesel engines. Its advise department also spent a short time mentioning the Kiyora construct car as substantially as something we've seen before -- a dual-fueled Premacy hybrid minivan powered by a rotary engine that crapper separate on hydrogen fuel.

What was conspicuously abstracted from the stand however, was a planned sports automobile concept fitted with an updated version of Mazda's next-generation, gas-powered rotary, codenamed the 16X. Of course, we are talking about the next generation RX-7 here. The current four-door RX-8 rotary is well-known for its inferior than satisfactory mileage, heavy oil consumption and flat mid-range torque, issues that engineers have been working to solve with the 16X for the next RX-7 (possibly called RX-9). The sketch you see here, which is one artist's impression of how the automobile could look, incorporates styling hints from the RX-8 and a frame organisation from recent swooping concept cars like the Kiyora. If built, the automobile is due to lose around 220 lbs in weight over the RX-8 and gain the fuel-sipping i-stop system in addition to an automobile assisted turbo.

The Hiroshima-based consort first revealed the 16X cyclical prototype engine at the 2007 Yeddo Motor Show, and at the time hinted that we could look forward to a special surprise at Yeddo in 2009. That didn't happen. In its \"Sustainable Zoom-Zoom\" declaration back in primeval 2007, we advert consort bosses saying that a automobile powered by the next generation cyclical engine would realty in showrooms in late 2010. That won't happen, either. The scheme downturn saw to that.

Mazda has been impact specially hornlike by the worldwide recession. With orbicular sales dropping by nearly 19% this year, compared to the first 10 months of last year, and sales of the binary award-winning MX-5 plummeting by over 26%, the consort is not exclusive losing profits and having to lay off workers, but is registering measurable dips in its sort identity. Fitted with the exclusive underway creation cyclical engine in the lineup, RX-8 figures have also dramatically dropped, causing concern not exclusive amongst crowning management but hundreds of engineers -- many of whom connected the consort wanting to work on the rotary.