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Motor Trend reports, “According to a able-bodied placed antecedent at Mazda’s North American Operations, the world’s one and alone rotary-powered assembly car will cease North American sales, a lot of acceptable afterwards the 2011 archetypal year.”.

The acumen for the Mazda RX-8′s end? Motor Trend explains: “Although the Wankel-engined, 2+2 sports car was afresh active (2009) and currently meets all U.S. emissions standards (which are in some means added austere that EuroV), Mazda awash alone 128 RX-8s in April of 2010 for a absolute of 428 year to date. The aggregation builds the cars in Hiroshima, Japan, so it may accomplish banking faculty to cut aback assembly and shipment costs on such a low aggregate sports car, in favor of its bigger selling, piston-powered vehicles.”

Autoblog explains why the RX-8′s rotary engine can be an affair for some owners. “There are a amount of issues that all manufacturers that acquire called to borrow the rotary engine architecture from Felix Wankel acquire had to accord with, not the atomic of which acquire been poor ammunition efficiency, analogously top bankrupt emissions and boundless oil consumption. It seems that these aforementioned long-running plagues may annihilate off yet addition fun-to-drive rotary-powered archetypal from Mazda.”

The RX-8 isn’t after fans. It’s currently in fourth abode in our Affordable Sports Car rankings, and reviewers are admirers of its backseat, which is in fact adequate (a attenuate affair in a sports car). They aswell like the RX-8′s power, but its rotary engine can be a bit of a buck to maintain.

Left Lane Account suggests addition acumen for the RX-8′s departure. “Rumors acquire appropriate an all-new RX-7 is beneath development, which could be the acumen for the RX-8’s departure. As you’ll remember, the RX-7 exited Mazda dealers a abounding two years afore the RX-8 appeared on the scene. The next-gen RX-7 has been angled for a 2013 launch.”

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