Classic Car And Driver - The Mazda RX-7

my first car was a 1985 gsl teal blue i loved it so much never broke on me
till i crashed it street racing with my dad so dont street race in a mazda becouse there will be one less we need to preserve them iam sad now!!!

135hp!!!... Man, i got a 618hp 3 rotor 1st gen.... I bet they didn't knew this car would fall on our puertorican hands.. hehehe

haha i bet felix wankel would shit himself if he knew that lol

I love 1st gens. Wish I still had one.

Its crazy that back in the day all major manufacturers had bought patent rights to build the wankel / NSU rotary. Nissan, chrysler, GM, Ford, Toyota you name it. They all scrapped their designs during the oil scare in the late 70's early 80's.

Imagine if they didn't?

That's the excuse they made, but I'm betting they simply gave up because they weren't willing or capable of making the engine work. Even Mazda struggled at first. Then Mazda had no trouble selling RX vehicles throughout the 70s and 80s.

my dad's cosuin has the very 1st RX-7 on the west coast of the US, he still owns it if i remember correctly, though it hasn't run since the mid 80's =(

Please... That's just crap.... If Nissan's 32 was so badass, why didn't they ship them worldwide like Porsche & BMW did. Fact is & has always been, the 32-34 was an ok OEM car that you COULD modify into a pretty badass car. I built my 1st '74 Skyline Kenmary GTX into a GTR in 1984.

It's also crap that R32's were faster, better, or nicer than a Porsche 911. Both cars off the showroom floor, the 911 would crush a 32 in everyway. Modified? That's different, & depends on the man with the wrench.

Its funny that you talk about 20 years ago, you were 9 years old. So you're talking about what somebody else told you, cause you surely didn't experience it at 9.

Also, if the RB26 was so badass, Nissan'd still be making them, but they're not. So that should tell you something.
It's exactly as us real engine builders have been telling all the turbo tuners since I can remember, THERE'S NO REPLACEMENT FOR DISPLACEMENT. Nissan's know's it, & that's why they enlarged the GTR's displacment by 46%