The Mazda RX-9 Could Be A 400bhp Rotary Weapon
After teasing the world with the RX-Vision concept earlier this year, Mazda has got the ball rolling again with plans to reveal a successor to the RX-8 at the 2019 Tokyo Motor Show.
Japanese website Holiday Auto has managed to get some inside information on the car, and the stats make for epic reading. The RX-9 could feature a 1.6-litre, twin-rotor turbocharged powertrain which should be good for at least 400bhp of rotary scream.
Those figures would make the RX-9 the most powerful production car ever produced by Mazda, but all this power will seemingly come at a cost. Estimations sit at around $80,000 (£60,500) which would make it nearly three-times the price of an RX-8. But for a return to rotary power for Mazda, I’m sure we’d be willing to pay the price!
Mazda has already trademarked the RX-9 badge, so fingers-crossed we will see a new rotary king by the end of the decade.
Comments
That render is an awful and cheap adaptation of the concept. They better not pull a subaru on this one. The concept is elegant and amazing, thst render looks like a hot wheelz
just please dont make it look like that yellow thing but like the rx-vision concept!
Rotary…dont know how i feel about that in 2016 but mazada needs SOMETHING!!!
as soon as I heard about this, I drooled like mad.
OMG! :o
It looks so beautiful and badass! :D
That KODO style is getting old, I started to get bored of that same style on mazda cars.
RIP ROTARY
brap
Mazda has been giving turbo rotary lovers blue balls since 2002