GTP Cool Wall: 2008 Mazda Furai Concept

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2008 Mazda Furai Concept

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2008 Mazda Furai Concept nominated by @FerrariF1GT

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Body Style: 2-door coupe
Engine: 2.0L R20B RENESIS 3-rotor Wankel
Power: 450 hp
Torque: 330 ft-lbs
Weight: 675 kg
Transmission: X-trac 6-speed semi-automatic
Drivetrain: Mid-engine, rear wheel drive
Additional Information: Introduced in the 2008 North American International Auto Show, the Furai is Mazda's last concept car in the "Nagare" concept line. Inspired by the 787B, the car uses a Courage LMP2 carbon fibre chassis and runs on E100 ethanol. It was road tested by Top Gear where it would set on fire. The car has never been restored.​

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Props for being a working car rather than a static concept, but it's not Cool.
 
Cool in that it basically helped drive the design language for Mazda.
Not sub-zero because it was never rebuilt and sadly never became more than a one-off.
 
450hp 3 rotor? How can that not be cool? Though I would have loved to see this thing eventually lead to another rotary powered Le Mans car. Now that would have been a nice comeback for Mazda in motorsports.
 
At the end of the hooplah and hossanahs this was just a re-purposed LMP2. Oh,who am I kidding?

Sub Zero.
 
SUBIWFITG,TISOF,AISNR! P,IAS

Seriously uncool because it was featured in TopGear, then it set on fire, and it's still not restored! Plus, it's a supercar.
 
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Seriously uncool because it was featured in TopGear, then it set on fire, and it's still not restored! Plus, it's a supercar.
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The Furai wasn't actually featured in the TV show of Top Gear, if that's what you were thinking - they only mention in it in the show, Season 11 if I remember correct. The magazine (TopGear mag) is the one that was doing the 'road test' on it when it burnt to the ground.
http://www.topgear.com/car-news/concept/exclusive-how-mazda-furai-burned-death#1

SZ. Despite it being a concept... this is one of the most beautiful cars ever made, in my opinion.
 
SUBCC and SUBRC. But 🤬 you Mazda, broke my opinion, twice. I love this thing to death, it's perfect. But you can't ever drive it because it's a concept although a functioning one, it's a race car and it burned down. Dammit, second exception. Sub-Zero although it's ashes.
 
Too bad this car got burned. Cool.

Can we revive this car by burning the cars from Hell in the Cool Wall?
 
A rather unpleasant looking concept race car with a rotary engine? For me, this is about as uncool as cars get.
 
This car is pretty damn cool - a three rotor monster designed as a racer.

But the looks really throw me off and I can't stand its brakelights.

Meh for now.
 

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