{"id":405726,"date":"2010-03-08T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/08\/report-mazda-designer-wants-to-revive-rx-7\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T00:58:00","slug":"report-mazda-designer-wants-to-revive-rx-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/405726","title":{"rendered":"Report: Mazda designer wants to revive RX-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/coupes\/\" rel=\"tag\">Coupe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/sports\/\" rel=\"tag\">Performance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/mazda\/\" rel=\"tag\">Mazda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gallery\/mazda-kabura-concept\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/01-mazda-kabura-concept-630op.jpg\"  alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>Mazda Kabura Concept &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nIkuo Maeda, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/mazda\">Mazda<\/a>&#8216;s design overlord, designed the soon-to-be-Stateside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/Mazda2\/\">Mazda2<\/a>. He also penned the Mazda <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/rx-8\">RX-8<\/a>, following quite literally the path his father laid before him: Maeda&#8217;s father created the original Mazda RX-7. Now Maeda wants to bring the RX-7 back to life, saying &#8220;I do have a strong yearning to revive the RX-7 during my tenure.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Even though many enthusiasts would like nothing more than for Mazda to tap that root, we have heard that other Mazda officials queried on the subject poo-pooed the idea, asking &#8220;Why go backwards?&#8221; If we were to answer, we&#8217;d say &#8220;Because things were awesome back then. Except for the warranty claims&#8230;&#8221; That latter point being another reason the last RX-7 is not exactly a fond memory for the Japanese brand. <\/p>\n<p>For it to have any chance at all, though, Maeda said &#8220;&#8230; we need the U.S. economy to come back, first and foremost.&#8221; We hereby give you our permission to begin buying everything. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/mazda-kabura-concept\/low\/\">Mazda Kabura Concept<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/mazda-kabura-concept\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/01-mazda-kabura-concept_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/mazda-kabura-concept\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/02-mazda-kabura-concept_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/mazda-kabura-concept\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/03-mazda-kabura-concept_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/mazda-kabura-concept\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/04-mazda-kabura-concept_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/mazda-kabura-concept\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/03\/05-mazda-kabura-concept_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100308\/OEM03\/303089976\/1144\">Automotive News<\/a> &#8211; Sub. Req.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/08\/report-mazda-designer-wants-to-revive-rx-7\/\">Report: Mazda designer wants to revive RX-7<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:58:00 EST.  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He also penned the Mazda RX-8, following quite literally the path his father laid before him: Maeda&#8217;s father created the original Mazda RX-7. Now Maeda wants to bring the RX-7 back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405726","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}