Mazda’s Rotary Era Comes To An End

Mazda is set to build the final RX-8, bringing a temporary end to the rotary engine, which powered its flagship sports cars for 45 years. Mazda is all set to revive the rotary engine within the next year as a hydrogen-fueled range extender for an upcoming electric vehicle. But the future of Mazda has already been tied to their Skyactiv engineering and traditional piston engines. In 2013, Mazda will return to LeMans and sports car racing with a Skyactiv diesel powered car. In 1991, the company famously won the race with a four-rotor powerplant. Rather than wax eloquently about the RX-8 and the rotary engine, Bloomberg's first quote manages to perfectly encapsulate the car "Fuel efficiency is horrible," said Meguro, a 41-year-old music producer in Tokyo, who drives a Mazda RX-8 sports coupe. "But I don't know any car that beats this. I'm going to miss it." Well said, sir. from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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