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As of October 2006 the RX-8 has won 37 international motoring awards including 2003 International Engine of the Year, the 2003 Japanese Car of the Year, Australia's Wheels magazine's Car of the Year for 2003, the 2004 Singapore Car of the Year, the 2004 U.S. Best Sports Car, and several UK Best Car Awards.
Although Mazda is well known for their Wankel "rotary" engines, the company has been manufacturing piston engines since the earliest years of the Toyo Kogyo company. Early on, they produced overhead camshaft, aluminum blocks, and an innovative block containing both the engine and transmission in one unit.
The Mazda RX-8 Hydrogen RE is a 2003 bi-fuel version of the RX-8 sports car, in which the twin-rotor wankel rotary engine is configured to run on either hydrogen or gasoline. This is the fifth Mazda vehicle to be fitted with a hydrogen wankel rotary engine .
RX8 may refer to: Mazda RX-8, a sports car, made by Mazda; Roewe RX8, an SUV by Roewe This page was last edited on 3 February 2021, at 09:45 (UTC). Text is ...
Mazdaspeed6 (Wheels from Mazda RX-8 prefacelift). The 2006 Mazdaspeed6 (known as Mazdaspeed Atenza in Japan and Mazda6 MPS in Europe, South Africa and Australia) is a high-performance version of the first generation Mazda6. Its mission statement was written with the help of Peter Birtwhistle, chief of Mazda's advanced design studio in Germany ...
In April 2008 Riley Technologies announced plans to build a track day car to meet the growing demand for high-performance vehicles for use at private track facilities. The newest Riley will utilize a mid-engine crate motor with over 500 horsepower (370 kW) and is designed to minimize operating costs normally associated with operating a race car.
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It is akin to the Series 4 to Series 5 as seen on the 2nd generation FC RX-7. Whether the series designations for the RX-7 came from official Mazda documentation or were created by enthusiasts I have no idea. The point is that the 2009+ RX-8 is not a large enough change to warrant the dubbing of a 2nd generation as it is a mid-generation refresh.--