Comments on: Mazda Furai Concept revealed

By: nokos

nokos — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:45:21 +0000

sorry i will correct myself its not the 2A2B its the 787B :)

By: gary

gary — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:16:23 +0000

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)

By: logan

logan — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:40:38 +0000

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

By: Anthonii

Anthonii — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:16:20 +0000

It certainly does look awesome

By: golfschwein

golfschwein — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:27:35 +0000

Google Peugeot Oxia, a showcar from the eighties. It was wild for the time and has some similarities.

By: TP

TP — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:13:37 +0000

Now that IS a good looking Mazda

By: Ivan

Ivan — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:09:40 +0000

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.

By: No Name

No Name — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:11:58 +0000

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

By: Lcat

Lcat — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:57:45 +0000

^ Designed by Franz von Holzhausen. Quote from Franz “it’s supposed to look like streamers fluttering in the wind.”

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:11:10 +0000

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.

By: Bavarian Missile

Bavarian Missile — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:28:11 +0000

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!!

By: supercujo

supercujo — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:49:50 +0000

I really do hope that Mazda build this. Breath new life into the rotary.

Alborz, ya big spoil-sport :)

By: smokin'R32

smokin'R32 — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:46:12 +0000

So is this thing a hint of what to expect with the next RX7 or something?

By: Lcat

Lcat — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:39:37 +0000

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.

By: Naughtyius Maximus

Naughtyius Maximus — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:34:15 +0000

WOW….red hot car. Cool as!

By: Bavarian Missile

Bavarian Missile — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:03:53 +0000

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………

By: Alborz

Alborz — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:50:28 +0000

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.

By: jbot

jbot — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:19:12 +0000

It would be interesting to find out how much all that fancy panelling improves its drag coeffecient. It would want to be good!

By: No Name

No Name — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:56:27 +0000

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.

By: supercujo

supercujo — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:26:10 +0000

This is such a sweet looking car. Much better than the LF-A that Toyota is building.

Toyota Paul should be here soon :)