Mazda Furai Concept revealed
December 30, 2007 by George Skentzos
Our first glimpse of the Furai Concept from Mazda came in the form of a subtle reveal of the sweeping roofline, and now official images have been released ahead of its reveal at the 2008 Detroit Motor Show.
A supercar like no other, the radical and completely unconventional design of the Furai is simply stunning.
So far nothing more than a concept, the aim of the Furai is to blur the lines between a pure bred track car and street-legal supercar.
An homage to Mazda’s overall win at the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Furai boasts a 335kW three-rotor Mazda 20B rotary engine born from a breed of rotaries banned from competition due to their unrivaled performance.
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*****PRIMO!*****
I hope that FOMOCO go from very very bad to worse so that they can sell Mazda and it can be on its own again.
“A star in a sea of s/hit”
Cheers,
F-0
This is such a sweet looking car. Much better than the LF-A that Toyota is building.
Toyota Paul should be here soon :)
I see exactly what yo mean Titan…its bound to happen but not entertainment for anyone but them.
As for the car, great concept but not “like no other” but looks like any other F1 wrapped in bodywork but with a rotary eng. I’ll never happen.
It would be interesting to find out how much all that fancy panelling improves its drag coeffecient. It would want to be good!
Guys we are going to follow a stricter policy on comments from next year, no offtopic discussion, we are going to launch a forum for that, in the mean time, please keep comments on topic.
Yet another Hot looking car from Mazda!Very nice!!
Not a chance of getting a drive of that one next year I guess Alborz and Anthony………
WOW….red hot car. Cool as!
The Furai (”sound of the wind”)is built on an existing chasis – the Courage C65 as raced by Mazda in the American LeMans series a couple of yeras ago. The car has had a shakedown at Laguna Seca and runs on pure ethanol (green credentials here!)
Mazda also enlisted the gurus from Swift Engineering to ensure the bodywork airflows would keep it glued to terra firma.
So is this thing a hint of what to expect with the next RX7 or something?
I really do hope that Mazda build this. Breath new life into the rotary.
Alborz, ya big spoil-sport :)
Hey………Supercujo……..I think it will be a good thing!I guess you do too……anything to stay on track!!You know what I mean!!!!!!!!!
Love a Rotary…….blurp,blurp,blurp…….the next best thing to a old 911 or WRX………..Yes!!
Awesome looking car. I can’t believe the amount of great looking cars coming out of Mazda at the moment. Would love to know who exactly is designing all their work.
^ Designed by Franz von Holzhausen. Quote from Franz “it’s supposed to look like streamers fluttering in the wind.”
Thanks for that Lcat, intresting, I think he’s been sucessful if your correct.
I don’t however see many of the design cues getting into production cars somehow. It reminds me of some of the kids Hotwheel toy cars. Nice
Looks nice. See it production would be good, as I’d love to see how a RMR (rear-mid engine, rear drive) combined with a rotary would handle. I bet the front:back weight is 50:50.
Now that IS a good looking Mazda
Google Peugeot Oxia, a showcar from the eighties. It was wild for the time and has some similarities.
It certainly does look awesome
i got to see one of these today, feb18, at the Toronto auto show and its even more stunning close up!!!i would definitely buy one if its street legal and not mroe money than ill ever have ever
to Frugal One, thats not a nice thing to say. nearly all designers from ford and mazda do time at each design centre and bring design idea to the table. without ford having investment in mazda when it was needed there would be no mazda today si i and you would not enjoy such highly technical cars. at least ford leaves mazda to do its own thing. cheers (ex designer)
sorry i will correct myself its not the 2A2B its the 787B :)