RotorHeads.com, anyone?

[pelo]

this may be heresy, but just how many of you brits are into Mazda rotaries? In New Zealand (where me live), there is a huge cult surrounding these unique cars. The series 6-onwards Rx-7 has gotta be the best looking car to ever come from the land of the rising sun, too.

[Fatboy]

They're pretty rare over here - only available as grey imports (Imported from japan by a private dealer rather than officially shipped here by Mazda), so you don't see many of them and therefore not too much of a following.

[JonRB]

Only of late. The RX-7 used to be a proper Mazda UK model until only a few years ago. There are still plenty of them on the roads - saw one today as a matter of fact. Regards Jon

[phil hill]

I have an article about a guy who fitted a third rotor in his MK1 RX7..... Came from an long defunked '80s tuning magazine called "Performance Tuning". He was a bit of a rotor-head having made a triple rotor NSU Ro80 pick-up as well. New tip-seals anybody ??

[Fatboy]

JohnRB - I hardly ever see one (live in the midlands - out of interest where do you see them? - are they all hiding from me ), didn't know they were officialy over here, thanks for clearing that up.

[ATG]

A bit off topic as per usual, but if anyone wants to see an interesting application for ****el engines and look into the eye of genius/madness have a look at this:- http://www.moller.com/skycar/m400/

[MikeG]

Pelo, Not owned or driven a Mazda rotory but used to own a NSU RO80 way back before I got the TVR bug. The RO80 was very advanced for it's day but I had to junk the rotory for a Ford V4 with an adaptor plate to mate to the drive. Shame as the rotory seemed a good idea but those rotor tips were a nightmare. Mike