new Mazda! Faster than Enzo???

[Marek]

HIROSHIMA, Japan, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Mazda Motor Corporation will showcase the world premieres of the Mazda Furai concept vehicle and the heavily revised 2009 Mazda RX-8 sports car at the 2008 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), to be held in Detroit from Sunday, January 13 through Sunday, January 27, 2008. On the heels of its show-stopping debut at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show in October, the Mazda Taiki concept vehicle also will make its North American debut, the first time it has been shown outside Japan.


Mazda Furai -- 'Sound of the wind'


Inspired by the fact that, on any given weekend, there are more Mazdas and Mazda-powered cars road-raced in the United States than any other brand, the Mazda Furai (Japanese for "sound of the wind" and pronounced "fu-rye") is the sort of car that could only come from a company that incorporates the "Soul of a Sports Car" into everything it builds, but with an eye toward the future and the environment through the use of 100% ethanol produced in partnership with British Petroleum (BP).


Furai takes Mazda's unique Nagare (Japanese for "flow") design language a step further as it is translated into a concept car based on an American Le Mans Series (ALMS) racing car. The car utilizes the Courage C65 chassis the company campaigned in the ALMS series only two seasons ago, and the 450-hp three-rotor rotary engine that distinguishes it from anything else on the track.


Says Franz von Holzhausen, Mazda's North American director of design, "Furai purposely blurs boundaries that have traditionally distinguished street cars from track cars. Historically, there has been a gap between single-purpose racecars and street-legal models -- commonly called supercars


-- that emulate the real racers on the road. Furai bridges that gap like no car has ever done before."


Mazda's critically acclaimed Nagare design language describes the flow of water, air, people or things moving in one direction. Mazda Nagare is flow, with an insightful and spirited styling, which, in Mazda Furai, invokes a raw, unfettered desire to possess everything this car represents.

from supercars.net

[01mmmz28]

damn....that thing looks evil. 450hp from a rotary is good, but I bet it will only have 250 lb ft of tq......lol.

[Anonymous]

interesting, but old, iread it two months ago i think...
thanks...

[robz95xj]

at the end of the day, its still owned by ford

[mattlikespeople]

Originally Posted by robz95xj

at the end of the day, someone's gonna put an ls1 in it

fixed^^

[robz95xj]

if you hit a wall with that thing you a ****ed my friend

[the_juggala26]

ewww!

[fat_kid]

Originally Posted by 01mmmz28

I bet it will only have 250 lb ft of tq......lol.

ftl!

[EVILZ33]

front is ugly as shit

[UKunt]

yer the front is ugl..the rest of it looks ok.

[GTSAdam]

Interesting is one word for it

[Nortad]

faster maybe, but the Enzo incredibly is certanly more civilized than this.

This Mazda is a french Courage C65 LMP2 racer with a mazda R20B race engine (aka: the beer keg), it has about space for 1 and half persons in it.









The engine was so much down on power over the turbo´d 4pot engines and 3.4l V8, they had to increase the size of the air restrictors to 53.4mm.







Its obvious it will be faster than an Enzo, but it will be like the Caparo T1. I love looks except the front, I woundnt mind having one, if the front was diferent.

[Marek]

Originally Posted by mattlikespeople

fixed^^

Oh my god, just shove an LS1 up your ass if you love em so much... Wtf is all this hype about the LS1 dammit

Its like sticking an SRT10 engine in everything you see and calling it fast!


And why the hell does Ukunt sound like a pirate for the last couple of weeks....

[01mmmz28]

he has an LS1 stuffed up his ass........that makes him say " ARRRGGGHH" just like a pirate.

Oh, by the way, next week I'm having the "LS1 up the ass" operation, wish me luck. I figured having one under the hood of my car was good enough, but hearing all the hype.....you know where it's going to go.

[Marek]

Originally Posted by 01mmmz28

he has an LS1 stuffed up his ass........that makes him say " ARRRGGGHH" just like a pirate.

Oh, by the way, next week I'm having the "LS1 up the ass" operation, wish me luck. I figured having one under the hood of my car was good enough, but hearing all the hype.....you know where it's going to go.

Hahhahahah! LS1 Up the NOS?