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English: 1994 Mazda RX-7 R2 (FD3S) in Vintage Red at the 2021 Lime Rock Historic Festival Concours d'Élegance. Staggeringly good condition. Staggeringly good condition. Date
It went on to win Playboy's Car of the Year for 1993. The FD RX-7 also made Car and Driver's Ten Best list for 1993 through 1995 – all three years in which it was sold in the United States. In June 2007, Road & Track proclaimed: "The ace in Mazda's sleeve is the RX-7, a car once touted as the purest, most exhilarating sports car in the world."
The 2001cc - 3000cc class [1] saw the debut of the Mazda RX-7 (13B powered rotaries were rated as 2.292 litres capacity) which raced alongside its predecessor, the Mazda RX-3 and against Ford Capris, a BMW 3.0Si and a largely unmodified Volvo 242GT entered as a publicity exercise by veteran journalist-racer David McKay.
Mazda had used a number of different marques in the Japan market, including Autozam, Eunos, and Efini, although they have been phased out. In the early 1990s Mazda almost created a luxury marque, Amati , to challenge Acura , Infiniti , and Lexus in North America, but this never happened, leaving the near-luxury Millenia to the Mazda brand.
It was exported as the Mazda RX-3 in its first generation from 1971 to 1978, and as the Mazda RX-7 in its subsequent generations. For the original 1971 version of Savanna, Mazda fitted its 10A rotary engine to the Mazda Grand Familia to create a separately marketed product sold in coupé, sedan, and station wagon guises. The engine was upgraded ...
Mazda RX-7: 31 Gregg Hansford: 43 Allan Moffat: Bernie Parmenter Ford Capri Mk.II: 32 Bernie Parmenter Lester Smerdon Isuzu Gemini: 33 Lester Smerdon Eurocars (Northside) Pty. Ltd. Mazda RX-7 37 Terry Shiel Bernie Stack Holden VH Commodore SS 38 Bernie Stack Barry Jones Mazda RX-7 41 Barry Jones Ross Burbidge Mazda RX-7 46 Ross Burbidge Roger ...
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The honor went to the 12A Rotary powered Mazda RX-7 of Allan Moffat who ended up 5th on the grid. * The gap of 2.381 seconds between Bartlett and Johnson broke the 1979 record of 1.966 seconds between Peter Brock and Bob Morris .