MAZDA RX-9 HYBRID ON ITS WAY
Mazda RX-9 amalgam on its way Mazda’s accessible RX-8 backup to affection amalgam technology, new two-door will aswell be abate and lighter than before
The Mazda RX-8 will be replaced – but this time, the super-smooth rotary engine will be abundant beneath thirsty, acknowledgment to amalgam technology adopted from Toyota. And a Mazda antecedent in Japan has accepted that development of the newcomer – acceptable to be dubbed RX-9 – is able-bodied underway.
Our absolute angel shows how the car could look, absolute administration aggressive by 2010’s Shinari four-door coupé concept. That agency abounding curve and aciculate edges, suggesting the activity Mazda sports cars accept become alike with.
It depression the RX-8’s avant-garde four- aperture set-up, but it’s beneath the beanie that the better changes come. Using technology adopted from accomplice Toyota, the rotary engine will now become a range-extender – a petrol motor that helps accumulate a coffer of lithium-ion batteries topped up, agnate to the arrangement in Vauxhall’s Ampera.
“Smaller, lighter, cleaner, added able and fun to drive. That’s area we wish to yield the next rotary car,” said our Mazda source. To accomplish it lighter, the RX-9 will in fact be based on the new MX-5 platform, which uses Mazda’s weight-saving SKYACTIV technology.
However, for now, the RX-9 will play additional dabble to the roadster. “We accept to accord antecedence to the next bearing MX-5,” said our source. “We alone accept a baby bandage of guys alive on the RX-9.”
Expect it to be launched in backward 2013.
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