Can you imagine one day visiting a Mazda showroom to buy a new RX-7 and finding anything but a rotary engine under the hood? Neither can global design chief — and RX-8 designer — Ikuo Maeda.
Automotive News reports the designer, whose father gave the world the aforementioned sports car, is hard at work on bringing back the RX line. Though nothing is set in stone, and that the Skyactiv engine "is a wonderful powertrain," Maeda insists the next RX must live up to its name.
However, engineers are still at a loss as to how to make the rotary engine cleaner to meet today's more stringent emission guidelines, having been hard at work in the background since the Renesis 16X engine debuted in the back of the Taiki concept in 2007. Mazda itself hasn't pushed the rotary back into the spotlight since giving the RX-8 the ax in 2012.
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