Insideline.com site reported two-seater sedan project 2012 model is still progress despite the economic conditions have not recovered from the global financial crisis. RX-7 was present as a substitute for the RX-8 four-seat as the next generation of launch was canceled.
Cancellation of the market relates to the RX-8 which is less good. Until the first quarter of 2009, marketnya tumbled 47.5 percent compared to the same year. Weak market due to cessation of the continuation of production models, including new models are powered 300 hp.
Meanwhile, the RX-7 claimed more powerful and more expensive than the RX-8. Power source using the new generation rotary engine, 16X Renesis. Capacity greater than 300cc Wenkel Renesis engine before, and has staff with 350 hp 214 ft-lb torque.
For information, Mazda RX-7 was first introduced in 1978 under the name Savanna 12A rotary engine. The process of manufacture, ranging from pictures, research to be, takes seven years. Second generation, with a project named P747, gliding in 1986. This generation remains roraty engine wear, but the power that comes out of the kitchen 13B runway at 150 hp. Then, seven years later (1993), the third generation born still rely 13B engine, but more sophisticated technology and 255 hp power.
When viewed by time period, the fourth generation should have appeared around 2001. Apparently, in 2004, the third largest car manufacturer in Japan after Toyota and Nissan launched the RX-8's. This car still uses a rotary engine, but more subtle and powerful 238 hp. However, one of the leading automotive magazine, Car and Driver, said that display the RX-8 is no different from the first model RX-7.
Achievement speaking, the RX-7 had won one of the most prestigious endurance race in the world, the Le Mans 24 hours, at 1991. At that time, a car driven by two former F1 pebalap, Johnny Herbert and Bertrand Gachot, and another one named Volker Weidler pebalap.
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