Decimate all the competition at Le Mans? Check. Having your engine banned from the race? Check. Ya... In my opinion it's a maverick car, the best sounding car ever as well.
This race car represents the "Never Give-up Spirit" of Mazda Engineering. #55 is Spiritual and Motivational. Mazda entered LeMan year after year after year to win this prize. And they won it the year before rotary engine was to be banned. Incredible leadership, passionate engineers and a team from a small automobile company from Hiroshima Japan, winning respect year by year (13 years).
I've always dreamed of having a street car with that engine. I'm sure it would be loud as hell and the revs violently bouncing at idle would be a huge cop magnet but it would be so sweet to have a Tamon RX7 with that motor in it for street use.
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Oh my god. Just the thing to go with my morning coffee and bagel. Thanks!!!!!!
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Decimate all the competition at Le Mans? Check. Having your engine banned from the race? Check. Ya... In my opinion it's a maverick car, the best sounding car ever as well.
I wish I could make that my ring tone!!
This race car represents the "Never Give-up Spirit" of Mazda Engineering. #55 is Spiritual and Motivational. Mazda entered LeMan year after year after year to win this prize. And they won it the year before rotary engine was to be banned. Incredible leadership, passionate engineers and a team from a small automobile company from Hiroshima Japan, winning respect year by year (13 years).
I've always dreamed of having a street car with that engine. I'm sure it would be loud as hell and the revs violently bouncing at idle would be a huge cop magnet but it would be so sweet to have a Tamon RX7 with that motor in it for street use.
Intoxicating.
That throttle blip from second to first sounds amazing.
wonder why they didn't space the gear ratios differently,
the downshifts are so orgasmic. is this a 26b rotary?
that sound is intoxicating
Yep, R26B 4-Rotor powered goodness
the most beautiful sound I've ever heard...
RB26B......Nice.
700 hp N/A, 830 Kg competing against cars like Jaguar XJR-9 and the Mercedes Sauber C12 that had 800 hp on tap....and destroying them....awesome.
And who was driving it in the video? Takuya Kurosawa, son of Motoharu Kurosawa aka Gan san....
Great video Jeroen.
That's a long 1st gear! I wish Mazda could replace the RX-8 with a model as pretty as the FD, and put a new twin turbo rotary in there.
Awesome video...i just can't get enough of that sound!
NIRVANA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome how the driver can exit corners in 1st gear!
Thanks for posting that.. can't get enough of that car..
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Ok, I refuse to call it engine sound; from now on, I'll refer to it as celestial engine music.
I <3 rotaries
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FXX anyone?
Is the Furai runs the same engine? I love the sound of the Furai too... Hope the Furai would be the next RX-7!