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more about #rx7 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 » Theimbellis: Watching Miatas wrecking isn't as interesting as watching blind cockroaches walking into each other. more » mechimike: Our Amazon lost a wheel in the first race, while I was driving, and the car simply skidded to a stop (I was fortunate enough to be able to get it off ... more » Gaseous Clay: It amazes me that a car as low centered as a Miata would flip like that rather than just sliding off into the grass. If it had slid then hooked the ed... more » UnlimitedRevs: He was on a roll. ...sorry. more » area_educator: has anyone thought (or has this change already been made) to count abstaining teams as 'crush no car'? more » olmy: I saw the broken con-rod from the Omni as I was leaving the awards ceremony yesterday. Best bent then broken con-rod I've ever seen! It had at least ... more » something_unique_and_descriptive: So who actually won? IOE and Heroic Fix are the ones that matter, nobody cares who did the most laps... more » Mudduck67: Greetings fellow workers and members of the proletariat known as the White Lightning racing team. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Kim Song-jin, pa... more » Fast_Nel: Can you bring this sport to Europe? Please, please, pretty please?!?! more » Mookinator: that's not an Omni, that's an 83-87 Charger. more » AlienProbe: Does this mean that some adjustments to the "Peoples Curse" is in order? Like... maybe there should be a dual curse vote now? Vote for two cars... th... 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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#crashweek
What's It Like When Your Mazda Sheds A Wheel On The Race Track?
Remember when the Torqueless Rotards RX-7 flipped at the 24 Hours Of LeMons South Fall '09? In all the excitement, I'd forgotten that the Rotards gave me a copy of their in-car video! More » -
#24hoursoflemons
And The Winner Is... NOT This 1979 Dodge Omni!
Much as we'd like to see an Omni win a LeMons race, we're still pretty happy that a team has won both People's Curse and overall win in the same race! More » -
#24hoursoflemons
People's Curse Winner Gets Pardon From Not-So-Bloodthirsty Crowd!
It says it right on the People's Curse ballots: Don't vote to crush a car just because it's ahead of you! Still, that's what happened today; the White Lightning RX-7 got the most votes. More » -
#24hoursoflemons
Four Hours In, White Lightning Mazda RX-7 Leads!
It's 98 degrees out, engine failures are proliferating like uranium centrifuges in the Middle East... and an RX-7 is leading the race. More » -
#24hoursoflemons
Torqueless Rotards RX-7 Loses Wheel, Gets Shiny Side Down!
Here's another lesson for those of you building a LeMons car: Invest a few bucks in new wheel studs! More » -
#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 » -
#24hoursoflemons
The Top 94 Lemons Of The 24 Hours Of LeMons South Spring 2009
After every 24 Hours Of LeMons race, we put together this list of the top finishers for you. And when we say "top," we mean "every single car that managed to get onto the track." More » -
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#24hoursoflemons
24 Hours Of LeMons South Day One: Saab Leads, Fiero In Top Ten
After putting away some excellent bratwurst, courtesy of the Fahrt Schnell Merkur XR4Ti team, I've dug up photos of the top ten contenders at the end of Day One of LeMons South racing. 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 » -
#24hoursoflemons
The 24 Hours Of LeMons Texas Gator-O-Rama Ãœber Gallery: The Japanese
Japanese cars made up nearly half the entries at the Gator-O-Rama, with 44 out of 95 vehicles coming from the Co-Prosperity Sphere. Miatas, Celicas, and RX-7s galore, of course, but that wasn't all. More » -
#24hoursoflemons
The Top 95 Lemons Of The Gator-O-Rama 24 Hours Of LeMons
For the first time ever, Detroit iron dominated a 24 Hours Of LeMons event, with American-built machinery taking four of the top five positions (if you consider a California-built Corolla to be American-built, that is). More » -
#bacykardlambooftheday
Backyard Lambo Of The Day: The Lam-Bro-Ghini
The Lam-Bro-Ghini, which appears to have once been an FC RX-7, is a true exotic. And when we say exotic, what we really mean is a car with a severe case of the exotic disease Leishmaniasis. -
#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! -
#projectcarhell
PCH, Budget Engine Swap Edition: Chevy V8 RX-7 or Nissan V6 Corona?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! Last time around, we saw the beat-to-hell Dodge Colt Turbo take the win over the totally trashed Chevy Sprint Turbo in the Choose Your Eternity poll. That's great, but what if you want a cheap Japanese car that doesn't rely on turbocharging to give you the power needed to set your town's all-time record for Exhibition Of Speed tickets issued in a single week? You'll need to go the engine swap route, of course, and everyone knows the best way to do an engine swap is to take on someone else's partly-finished project! See, that way someone elsescrews upperforms the dirty, sweaty part of obtaining the engine and getting it into the recipient car's engine compartment, leaving onlythousands ofa fewmaddeningly difficulteasy tasks remaining to complete the job.
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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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#projectcarhell
Project Car Hell, LeMons South Edition: RX-7 or Caprice?
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! We had what may be our all-time closest vote yesterday, with the 4x4 Econoline beating the lowrider Econoline 202 votes to 200. Today we're going racing! We've had Arse-Freeze-A-Pa-Looza LeMons PCH and the LeMons San Francisco PCH, and now tradition dictates that we have a LeMons South Edition PCH. Just in time for teams still hoping to make the deadline for the Yeehaw It's Texas LeMons event! More »
