The RX-7’s replacement solved a problem the RX-7 never tried to: how to fit a usable back seat around a rotary engine. Mazda’s answer was a genuine four-seat quad coupé with rear-hinged half-doors and no B-pillar, powered by the Renesis, a side-exhaust-port version of the Wankel engine cleaner enough to be sold new in markets that had shut the door on rotary power elsewhere.[1] It ran for one generation only, from 2003 to 2012, and Mazda has not sold a rotary-only production car since.
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Mazda RX-8
Mazda RX-8, 2003-2012
- Produced
- 2003–2012
- Generations
- 1
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