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Ikuo Maeda is the new design chief of Mazda Motor Corp and has a very interesting nickname – “Speedy.” Apparently he earned the nickname for his lead-footed driving on the race course and off that has gotten his license revoked twice.<\/p>\n
Maeda originally designed the new body of the RX-8 but a generation before, his father designed the RX-8’s predecessor, the original RX-7. Maeda said that his pet project right now is the next-generation RX-7.<\/p>\n
Click here to get a price quote on the 2010 Mazda RX-8<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n “I do have a strong yearning to revive the RX-7 during my tenure,” Maeda said. “But in order for that to happen, we need the U.S. economy to come back, first and foremost.”<\/p>\n It’s been previously reported that we can expect to see the RX-7 sometime next year. Its debut will mark the end of the slow-selling and expensive RX-8.<\/p>\n – By: Omar Rana<\/em><\/p>\n Source: AutoWeek<\/a><\/p>\n Ikuo Maeda is the new design chief of Mazda Motor Corp and has a very interesting nickname – “Speedy.” Apparently he earned the nickname for his lead-footed driving on the race course and off that has gotten his license revoked twice. Maeda originally designed the new body of the RX-8 but a generation before, his […]<\/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-407723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407723","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=407723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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