We brought you the first shots of the 2009 Mazda Furai Concept a couple weeks ago, and some hot video yesterday, now we've got photos from the floor of the 2008 Detroit Auto Show. In person the Furai is poetry even without the motion - long and low and wide, it is a monster in Nagare clothing. All it needs is me in a matching fire suit and helmet.














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I'd hit it.
Still looks blisteringly fast.
The stuff dragon's dreams are made of.
When I look at this car, my pants get tighter.
When I look at the video and listen to the sound of it, I need a new pair of pants!
@Cameron Thirteen: I'd drive it.
@Sonic84: Well, yeah, I'd do that, too. But then, I'd hit it. You know, movie, burger, racetrack.
I don't think it's a good idea to admit this on the interwebs, but I just can't help myself. I am so Humbert Humbert for this nymphet.
Is it actually against the law to make sweet passionate love to a vehicle? I mean I see a slew of videos on youporn that clearly indicate it isn't.
Car looks stunning. I'm so sick of every supercar using the same wedge shaped design.
Always thought the rotary would be perfect in a light-weight supercar due to its packaging and lightweight. Since this car gets 450hp from ethanol (lower energy content then gasolin) I would love to see a production engine that can produce around that with gasoline. If they can make similar power in a car less then a 1,000kg you have a world-beater (the Courage which the chassis is based on weights around 780kg). Regardless, lovely car.
A little weird, but still the most beautiful & artistic surface treatments I think I've ever seen. Chris Bangle, eat your flame-surfaced heart out, biznatch.
good.god.gimmie.
i even have a parking pass at the local airport down the block to park that massive wing...
and is it just me, or would those headlights make you burst into tears as they approach, then scream by you at 100+ on the highway? anyone? anyone?
Hmmm. This is a car that fills you with self-doubt. I don't deserve this car, I know I can't drive it properly and it is really a case of the tail wagging the dog. And this dog might just kill me. It sits there, impassive, waiting. An alien beauty. Hey, I know how to steer and shift gears. So I can do this, right? Right? Impassive alien beauty says nothing. I might be cautious or awkward at first, but I could get it around the track. A little practice. Alien beauty says nothing.
semen, everywhere
Holy Christ on a cracker that's a hot vehicle. Stunning. This car gets my vote in the primary.
@Novaload: @Larry Forney: Combined COTD.
Considering the response to this car on every website everywhere ever, I think Mazda would be smart to put this into production in some form, be it race or road.
*swoon*
I want to take it behind the middle school and get it pregnent.
I want to fall madly in love and get married so I can offer the bride to Satan for this car.
@Placebo: Running for the "sticky when viewed alone" party?
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man if only this was a Honda and was the next gen NSX
but its NOT so it will remain a non production car
kinda like a tease dontcha think?
its like seeing Jessica Alba naked and she begs you to take her but only if you fork over 2 million dollars
DOH!!!!!!
Every pair of pants in my entire wardrobe? Soiled.
I just noticed something...that evilgrin-ish swoop of bodwork connecting the headlights mimics the Mazda logo's V-shaped crossmember.
[jalopnik.com]
look I know the Tumbler is one bad mofo
but either this or the Wiesmann GT MF5 would be a great Batmobile
heres some crazy sculpting in the back area:
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subtitle: how i converted from atheism.
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Sorry for the flood, but it's like one of those girls that just makes you forget everything else, you can spend so much time on her every curve, the corner of her mouth, her wrist, the profile of her fingernails; you just feel that conerning yourself with her shortcomings is some sort of depraved sacrilege.
I have to get some sleep.
These galleries will be here in the morning right?!?
@BN.:
If we can put the Excelero in then we can damn sure put this in!
That said, i'm not entirely sure it deserves it... Concept cars are neat, and concept cars that can pull 2Gs are even neater... but...
Now if this actually goes beyond the concept stage...? Yeah, don't call me Mazda. I'll call you. Six thousand five hundred and ninety four times a day.
@Andrew Saar: Aggrivated Vehicular Sodomy?
Why couldn't this have been the replacement for the RX8? That machine looks so stodgy next to the Furai.
RX9 anyone?
@thunder: For less than $100,000? Don't hold your breath.
looks like the Japanese are consciously trying to push auto design up a quantum leap. Wouldn't you with the Koreans, Chinese, and Indians nipping at their heels?
And where are the Americans? Oh, stuck in the '80's someplace. Pathetic. "But we can have a new Hummer in few years..."
This should have been the new Speedracer car.
Is this a case of form following function, or did some designer just really, really, really get it right?
From the sound of things, a lot of dragons are posting...
I'm pretty sure that's the stuff wet dreams are made of.... Very pretty, want to touch...
Every time I see it.. it's just more beautiful
I love how organic this thing looks. It looks it came out of a cocoon or something, not out of moulds and presses. Amazing.
@wishnevsky: guess you havent seen the elves hard at work at GM then
the front, reminds me of megatron.
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