Rotary Rebirth: 2017 Mazda RX-7
By: Jake Namer
Sports Car Chief of Mazda Motor Corporation, Nobuhiro Yamamoto, exposes
details on the 2017 RX-7 rebirth. The new RX-7 will commemorate 50 years
over rotary Mazda sports cars. Yamamoto expressed in an interview with
The Motor Report the car will likely start out with a naturally
aspirated rotary engine - perhaps a variant of the 16X developed in 2007
- and tip the scales at about 2600 lbs. Despite the lack of forced
induction, the larger displacement 1.6 liter wankel would turn out
approximately 300 horsepower. Yamamoto - the
