Posted by Goose on October 10, 2011 at 09:19:57 from (173.190.237.126):
TOKYO (AP) -- Mazda will stop making cars with its signature rotary engines after a 45-year production run that included powering the first and only Japanese car to win the 24-hour Le Mans endurance race.
Poor sales and the high costs of meeting modern emissions standards have made rotary engines uneconomical to produce.
Mazda Motor Corp. said Friday that the latest edition of the Mazda RX-8 will go on sale Nov. 24, targeting sales of 1,000 vehicles, but will end production in June 2012.
The Japanese automaker, based in Hiroshima, introduced its first rotary engine car in 1967 and is the only automaker in the world that makes rotary engine vehicles. Such engines have fewer moving parts and are quieter than comparable piston engines but are more expensive to manufacture and consume more fuel.
The RX-8 is the only model in Mazda's lineup with the rotary engine.
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The only experience I had with one, was about 1987 my niece had an '83 RX-7. She got a job in California and wanted her car out there, but didn't want to drive it out herself. So, she flew out, and I drove her car out and flew back.
Now the fun part. She was staying with her brother in Chino, and she had to get me to the Ontario airport. I'm 6'2", Kimberly is 6', and her brother, Tim, is 6'5". Kim drove, I sat in the passenger seat with the seat all the way forward and my knees scrunched against the dash, we put my luggage under the hatchback, Tim crawled in the hatch and wrapped himself around my luggage, and Kim slammed the lid on him. All of us in that little RX-7, and we lit out for the airport.
We made it, but we got more than a few strange looks along the way.
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