RUMOR MILL: Mazda Could Debut New RX Sports Coupe As Early As Next Week

Enthusiasts have spent years bemoaning the death of Mazda’s legendary RX nameplate. The last-generation RX-8 left much to be desired and felt like the company had given up on its history. But if a new report from Japan’s Best Car is to be believed, those acolytes may soon be satiated. 

With the Tokyo Motor Show just a week away, we’re receiving tasty tidbits of information on a number of future-forward products soon coming out of Japan. And one of these reports involves a new Mazda sports coupe. According to Best Car, Mazda has been secretly engineering a new front-engined, rear-wheel drive sports car that could bring back the RX nameplate and is getting ready to debut it at the forthcoming show.

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cidflekken - 9/20/2019 1:09:15 PM

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Sure, makes sense. A low-volume brand releasing a model in the lowest-volume segment. Why, again?

scenicbyway12 - 9/20/2019 1:16:36 PM

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Seriously, this is an obsolete engine just let it die.

scenicbyway12 - 9/20/2019 2:28:30 PM

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Damn this what happens when you don't read the article, I thought it was the godawful rotary engine,

countguy - 9/20/2019 1:26:04 PM

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Put a normal engine in it and put it on the lot. I welcome anything that is not another soccer mom cuv/suv.

skytop - 9/20/2019 1:55:11 PM

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Why not a hybrid or full EV sports car?

PUGPROUD - 9/20/2019 4:17:13 PM

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Mazda is the "little engine that could." For what it is and what it costs the MX-5 is a driver's car. I for one am looking forward to what this new model might be and hope Mazda puts it to Toyota, Subaru, Nissan, etc at the lower end of the market.

MDarringer - 9/20/2019 7:45:35 PM

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Putting 300 horsepower into the Miata is all they really need to do.

runninglogan1 - 9/20/2019 8:28:50 PM

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Any RX should be a rotary. Otherwise, call it something else.

MDarringer - 9/20/2019 9:11:48 PM

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I agree...MX9...issue solved

valhallakey - 9/21/2019 1:21:15 AM

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It would be neat if they could stick with a rotary engine... otherwise they should call it an MX9 or maybe IX9. RX-7 stood for Rotary Experimental #7 so IX-9 could stand for Inline Experimental 9??

runninglogan1 - 9/21/2019 3:09:08 AM

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Lol. Better than RX-9.

SuperCarEnthusiast - 9/21/2019 10:36:16 AM

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Maxda as always miss the trend and made a “front” engine rear wheel drive sports car. It should be mid engine, AWD sport car!

MDarringer - 9/21/2019 12:14:48 PM

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There are people her who wax poetic about Mazda but it's bumbled its way along for decades.