It’s official. Rotary is back. Earlier this month, at the Tokyo Auto Show, Japan’s largest car customization show, Mazda held a press convention where President Masahiro Moro said that “on February 1, we will launch the rotary engine development group. “
Reading between the lines is like saying that we bring back the rotary sports car. And while Mazda now has the Hybrid MX -30 R -EV Rotary hybrid, where the rotating engine acts only as a generator to load the batteries, so that Moro goes out at this level and announces the release of a new & D only rotating one year and shortly after the corporation revealed the magnificent emblematic spry of IC Rotary -Hidridia at the end of the rotary -ybrid, the Japanese mobility screen 2023 -in a sports car that will be provided through a rotating engine, which It is not relegated to the role of a generator as in the MX-30.
In fact, Mazda has been teasing us with rotary powered concepts for a decade now, first with the jaw droppingly stunning, award-winning RX-Vision concept in 2016, only to be followed in 2023 by the equally eyebrow raising rotary-hybrid Iconic SP concept.
According to Moro, one of the main reasons why Mazda bit the ball and made the decision to resurrect the rotary force unit was due to the positive reaction of the media and the automotive public to the 2023 program. “I’m deeply touched by all the help and encouragement I gained from the [iconic SP] Sports Car compact concept. Said.
Mazda’s new task also applies to those who weren’t thrilled when Mazda brought an unimpressive edition of the rotary engine, not as a propulsion formula that powered anything sporty like an RX-8, but as a generator to qualify the batteries in the batteries in the MX-30 R-EV CrossOver Range-Extender Hybrid that appeared in 2023.
The project Moro is referring to ostensibly backs up a news story I published in August last year. According to Mazda at the time of the Iconic SP’s launch, the new rotary coupe would employ that same basic hybrid system as the MX-30, but it would feature two 830cc rotors instead of the MX-30’s single rotor, and produce a lot more horsepower—try upwards of 350 hp in total. And unlike the MX-30, power would be channeled to the rear wheels, like a true sports car.
“In order to breakthrough the challenges of the carbon neutral era, rotary engine engineers who have acquired a broad technical perspective that transcends the boundaries of cutting-edge internal combustion engine technology will reunite,” Moro added. That sounds very much to me like his team is in the process of radically redefining the rotary powertrain to significantly reduce emissions and fuel consumption while boosting power considerably.
The hybrid formula would also allow the engine to be absolutely cut, allowing the car to work exclusively in its electric motor. Therefore, of all bread crumbs that remain through Moro about its new R&D rotary organization and the EMS -SP design team, the new generation rotating sports car will be that: a car that leads to Through its rotary engine that can only paintings in a variety of other fuels, however, at the same time, obtain the help of dual electric motors, allowing the car to go to the strictest emissions.
Expect to see the Iconic SP, under a more practical name no doubt, launch in late 2026 or early 2027 for around $50,000.
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