{"id":103421,"date":"2009-12-26T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/26\/mazda-rx-8-to-die-as-rx-7-resurfaces-for-2012\/"},"modified":"2009-12-26T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T17:45:00","slug":"mazda-rx-8-to-die-as-rx-7-resurfaces-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/103421","title":{"rendered":"Mazda RX-8 to die as RX-7 resurfaces for 2012?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Coupe<\/a>, Performance<\/a>, Mazda<\/a>, Rumormill<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Mazda<\/a>The rumormill just can’t stop churning out stories of an impending Mazda<\/a> RX-7 revival. We’ve been hearing that we should expect the rotary-powered sports car<\/a> any day now… for the last few years. It’s still yet to show its smiling face. Still, here we are with another report indicating that the next RX-7 is just around the corner<\/em>, this time as a 2011 or 2012 model.<\/p>\n

Inside Line reports that the birth of the two-seat Mazda RX-7 will mean the death of the current four-door, four-seat RX-8<\/a> that’s been in circulation since 2004. Furthermore, the gang in Santa Monica says that next-gen rotary sportscar may not up the performance ante of either the last twin-turbo RX-7 or even the current RX-8’s 1.3-liter 232-horsepower Renesis engine. This, despite earlier rumors that the latest 1.6-liter 16X powerplant<\/a> was kicking out as much as 350 horses while still achieving superior fuel economy over its forebears.<\/p>\n

Mazda could instead return to the ethos of the first RX-7 from 1979, fielding a lightweight two-seater powered by a new version of the Wankel producing somewhere between 200 and 250 horsepower. If true, we can expect the next RX-7 to cost somewhere around $25,000 and be positioned against cars like the Hyundai Genesis Coupe<\/a> and the upcoming RWD Toyota\/Subaru<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: 2009 Mazda RX-8 R3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: Inside Line<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Mazda RX-8 to die as RX-7 resurfaces for 2012?<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Mazda, Rumormill The rumormill just can’t stop churning out stories of an impending Mazda RX-7 revival. We’ve been hearing that we should expect the rotary-powered sports car any day now… for the last few years. It’s still yet to show its smiling face. Still, here we are with another report indicating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}