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Article: Mazda RX-8 rolls out as four-door sports car with rotary engine.
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- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2003
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Byline: Steven Cole Smith
After a nine-year hiatus, the rotary club is once again meeting at your local Mazda dealer. The Mazda RX-7, which had a heady run with its Wankel rotary engine from 1979 to 1995, has been reincarnated as a strange, but ultimately very successful, four-door sports car.
The 2004 Mazda RX-8 aims at several targets and hits all of them. It's a departure from the three generations of previous RX-7s, which is appropriate _ they were all very, very different cars.
The RX-7 debuted as a 1979 model, a clean, fast little two-seater that took the place of the original Datsun 240Z, which by `79 had grown into a bloated luxury ...