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Here’s your first look at Mazda’s sexy—if radical—new concept car that will make its world debut next month at the 2008 Detroit auto show. With its obvious yet sophisticated aerodynamic design, it’s no wonder the company settled on Furai, which is Japanese for “sound of the wind.” Mazda’s not handing out many juicy details, but we do know that the power behind this Batmobile look-alike is a 450-hph, three-rotor rotary engine.
For the Furai’s unique design, Mazda took an American Le Mans Series (ALMS) racecar and translated its look on top of the Courage C65 chassis that the company promoted in the ALMS series two years ago. “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,” says Franz von Holzhausen, Mazda’s North American director of design. “Furai bridges that gap like no car had ever done before.” We’ll judge that for ourselves when we see it live on Jan. 13 in Detroit. Stay tuned. —Brittany Marquis
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As you have read this is going too be a bad ass supercar! This feels promising I feel they will really release this supercar in the future considering the fact that the co is doing good. Mazda is finaly doing what I wished and begged that they would do, I can not wait too see this ALMS Courage C65 mixed with Mazda Taiki inspired chassis, powered by a 450hp 24X Renesis2 Three Rotor Rotary engine combined with a most likely low weight in the low 2000LBS range body supercar with a probabal(spelling) 0.25 coeffeciant drag kick all supercars asses!
Anyway I have some performance estimates for this road legal Rotory Rocket race car, oh I decided too raise weight too 2200LBS for it's power/weight ratio and it would be 2.4 in that case. Since it will have Zero lift(like the Taiki) and knife edge coeffeciant drag of 0.25,
0-60=around 2.9-3.2 secs
0-100=7.1-8.5secs
Quater mile=10's at 120's
Top speed of 220+
Skidpad=1.2+Gs
Slalom speed 70+ easily
Nurburgring low 7's
Price=100K-150K
I want it bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What do you people think?