Report: Mazda to Create New RX-7 and RX-9 - Insider Car News
With the RX-8 out of the picture, a new report broken by the website Motoring claims that Mazda is hard at work bringing back its most legendary vehicle of all time: the mighty RX-7. I know that many reading this are laughing because such rumors... This time, the news takes things one step further by claiming that the Japanese automaker is hard at work on an RX-9, which would also be powered by a rotary engine and would be slotted above the RX-7. Interesting. » Related: BBR Gives the NC Miata a 225-Horsepower Swan Song Fueling the news is the fact that Mazda is about to pull the covers off the next generation of the MX-5 Miata. Supposedly, Mazda is using its recent windfall of $1. 88 billion, which is from everyone running out and buying SkyActiv models with a vigor, to fun the research and development of the two new sports cars. We won’t have to wait long to see the RX-7 in dealer lots, with the report stating that will happen in 2017, just in time to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cosmo Sport, which any good Mazda historian knows was the company’s first car with... Also according to the report, Mazda will launch the RX-9 in 2020 at the same time that the Olympic Games are being hosted in Tokyo. Source: www.insidercarnews.com
