After our going to lengths to dispute the likelihood of any RX-7 coming to us any time in the next decade, Inside Line reckons it’s had an inside source at Mazda’s Hiroshima HQ confirm that a new Mazda RX-7 is indeed on the way, though no dates were given.

According to IL’s source, Mazda’s efforts to [...]

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Mazda has announced the pricing and specifications for their updated RX-8 range – the car that Mazda like to refer to as, “the world’s most successful rotary-powered sports car”.

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Mazda has announced this week that it will be extending the US-market warranty on the Renesis rotary engine—currently found in the RX-8—to eight years/100,000miles (whichever comes first, as usual).  Is this a symbol of Mazda’s faith in the engine, or are they loading up on good karma?  With the perception that rotary engines simply don’t [...]

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Unbelievably, it has been 40 years since Mazda introduced their first rotary engined vehicle. Launched in 1967, the Mazda Cosmo Sport (110S overseas) was the first to feature the high revving and highly strung little Wankel. The original rotaries made great power but had a prodigious thirst for oil and petrol. Mazda however, stayed the [...]

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Ahead of its Tokyo Auto Salon debut, Mazda have released an image of their facelifted RX-8 RS, an uprated JDM model. While the RS is a JDM only proposition, its styling will be shared by the facelifted RX-8 due to be unveiled in Detroit next week, so essentially this is our first look at the [...]

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It’s not the 1st of April but I’d still be taking this one with a grain of salt, for the time being at least. These images have appeared on the JustPut.com forum with the claim that they are quite possibly a Mazda RX-9 Concept, due for production in 2012. Not being a big fan of [...]

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Mazda’s concept cars of late have been interesting to say the least. The Mazda Taiki Concept is no exception and is the fourth in a consecutive series of concept vehicles based around the original ‘Nagare’ design.

Nagare is Japanese for flow, and Taiki means atmosphere, put the two together and you have a futuristic front engined, [...]

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