Mazda Won't Build A Rotary Sports Car, Nor A 3 MPS
There was a double dose of bad news emerging from LA for anyone hoping for sportier stuff from Mazda. First off, the prospect of an MPS revival: sadly, it just isn’t going to happen.
Asked by Drive.com.au following the reveal of the new 3 hatchback and saloon if a faster version of the car was on the cards, Mazda president Akira Marumoto had the following to say: “Mazda is a small player and if [you are asking if] that segment has a high particular priority for Mazda my answer would be no. Therefore we not planning for MPS in the future.”
This strikes us as a massive shame. As we’ve discussed recently, Mazda is extremely good at making its all cars - not just the rear-drive MX-5 - drive extremely nicely. If it can make an 89bhp 2 hatchback feel so incredibly satisfying to drive, imagine how good a new hot hatchback from the company might be.
The second dose of disappointment concerns the future rotary sports car that even Mazda execs have been hinting at. Rotary engines are definitely returning to the company in the form of EV range-extenders, but beyond that, we probably should expect much.
“I am receiving this question [about a future rotary sports car] maybe 100 times, and I will not commit…Nothing has been decided,” he said.
Does that stop us hoping and dreaming? Nope.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
CAN YOU ALL JUST REALIZE THE ROTARY IS DEAD AND NEVER COMING BACK, ITS TOO MUCH WORK TO BUILD A COMPLETELY NEW ROTARY FOR ONE CAR WHEN ITS GOING TO FLOP ANYHOW
But theyre literally making a new one as a range extender.
they could’ve saved the rotary years ago if they hadnt prioritized reliability over efficiency by using 2 different materials for the rotor and the housing(making both out of aluminium would’ve allowed for signicant improvements on efficiency but allowed the engine to seize if it overheated), also they shouldve gotten together with toyota and kawasaki to develop the engines, since those two had also worked on rotary engines and managed around 10% better emissions and fuel consumption each
Nothing has been decided….. there’s still a chance!
Why bother building a concept for an idea that will never reach production?
Shoulda built a frickin Mazda 3 concept
lol
Booooo
I have lost hope in Mazda
I’m keeping my Mazdaspeed3 and RX-8
It wouldn’t really be necessary if the new one drives as good as the old one
Massive L
“mAzDa Is ThE nEw BmW”
mazda: says publicly that they won’t make a rotary sports car or a fast car
humans: surprised pikachu face