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more about #rotary more comments → Murilee Martin: I just can't get over the awesomeness of a car called the Cosmo Big Run Genteel! more » Novaload: No, this is how a Maz SHOULD sound: [jalopnik.com] more » tonyola: Here's an annoying but unforgettable one from 1972 - "Piston engine goes boing, boing, boing but the Mazda goes hmmmmm" more » If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face: I was really hoping Jim Garner would pull a J-turn in that 929. more » Unevolved has three moving parts.: I know this is really going to come off as fanboy-ish, but as an (FB) RX-7 owner, I think it should stay true to the original spirit as much as possib... more » wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx: Torque you say? From a Wankel? Lets put it this way: when I wankel I make more torque than that. more » Leeeeena the Jalopchick: It just hit me what Mazda's new across-the-line face reminds me of! Edit: sorry for the double-post: I think I screwed something up with the embedd... more » Leeeeena the Jalopchick: It just hit me what Mazda's new across-the-line face reminds me of! more » dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity: I don't read Japanese, but I wonder if the 55% figure in the picture represents the odds of this car appearing at the Tokyo show. more » Graverobber: It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown! Seriously, somebody at Mazda needs to cut back on the Paxil, these smiling faces are a little too much for my ta... more » brandegee: Not sure how 0.3L is going to help twist. I still think the Rex 7 needs the snail, even if it eats more fuel than Takeru Kobayashi after Lent. Diesel... more » smalleyxb122: I see this driving up the already stratospheric prices of used 3rd gens (FD). Dammit. As a successor to the FD, I would like it to look a bit more agg... more » Cognitive Friction: Is "Nagare" Japanese for "Nerf turbo football"? more » Syrax: Now we just need another W8. Or a W10. more » engineerd: Mazda is learning from GM. They are going to hype this for 2 more years, then finally start building it. RX-7 fanboys will rejoice all over, a few w... more » -
#classicadwatch
Jalopnik's 9 Favorite Vintage Mazda Commercials
When an automaker builds a car named the Cosmo Big Run Genteel, you know they're going to make some good television advertisements. Yes, we're talking about Mazda here!
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#overthebackfence
Mazda RX-7 Concept To Appear In Tokyo?
Every year we hear of a new rumor involving Mazda's long departed RX-7 making a zombie-like comeback, but we've now hearing we should expect a new 1.6-liter rotary RX-7 concept for the Tokyo Motor Show. More » -
#downonthestreetbonusedition
Saturday DOTS-O-Rama, Tomsk Edition: The Sun Rises Over Orange County
Welcome to Down On The Street Bonus Edition! We're back with more Tomsk photos from behind the Orange Curtain. More » -
#engineswap
If We Can Put A Man On The Moon, A Mazda Rotary Can Be Installed In A Matra Murena!
Say you've got a beater Mazda RX-7 with a good engine on one side of the garage and a clean Matra Murena with a miserable Simca engine on the other side. What do you do? More » -
#projectcarhell
PCH, Engines Not Found In Nature, Part II: Turbo Rotary Datsun 510 or V8 Austin-Healey Sprite?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Let's return to Engines Not Found In Nature projects, shall we? More » -
#nicepriceorcrackpipe
Nice Price Or Crack Pipe: 2,450-Mile 1985 Mazda RX-7 For 15 Grand?
You know how most first-gen RX-7s got blown up, wrecked, or otherwise hooned to death, with the scattered survivors slowly fading into beaterness? Not this one! -
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#1985mazdarx7
1985 Mazda RX-7
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. We've had a real Mazda shortage around these parts, probably because the early rotaries tended to blow out the apex seals and/or suck gas and thus didn't weather the decades quite as well as their piston-engine competition. There's been an '81 RX-7 (plus one non-Wankel '82 Mazda) and that's been it until today. I've decided to go deeper into the 80s to enable more RX-7s to qualify for this series, because they were great cars on the street (and on the racetrack) and deserve our respect.
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#chooseyoureternity
PCH, Rotary Swap Hell Edition: Honda 600 or Toyota Starlet?
Technically, the Peugeot Mi16 beat the Mercedes-Benz 6.9 in last Friday's Choose Your Eternity poll, but we're talking 327 to 317 votes here. When all is said and done, however, France still needs to take on Britain in a PCH Superpower Challenge... but we're postponing that apocalyptic battle for another day, because tipster EdNiedermeyer sent in a mighty Wankelized contender from not-often-seen-in-PCH Japan (earning a half-credit towards a Project Car Hell Tipster T-shirt in the process), and we've found a Rotarian opponent that stacks up pretty well against it. So throw those pistons in the trash and stagger into the sumo ring to face your 800-pound opponent, because it's Rotary Swap Hell Day! More »
