{"id":19160,"date":"2023-10-25T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T08:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/?p=19160"},"modified":"2026-08-30T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T08:33:35","slug":"mazdas-iconic-sp-is-essentially-a-miata-with-an-rx-7-motor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/2023\/10\/25\/mazdas-iconic-sp-is-essentially-a-miata-with-an-rx-7-motor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mazda’s Iconic SP Is Essentially a Miata With an RX-7 Motor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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During the Japan Mobility Show 2023, Mazda unveiled what is essentially a cross between its MX-5 Miata roadster and the \u201cIconic\u201d RX-7 FD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aptly named the Iconic SP, the concept vehicle features a short wheel base, curvy coup\u00e9 lines and a compact cabin \u2013 similar design elements of the latest Mazda Miata. Likewise, exterior cues reference the FD RX-7 such as the sloping rear window, wide hips, swooping doors and \u2013 excellently \u2013 a set of slim pop-up headlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real RX-7 reference however is the powertrain \u2013 the Iconic SP utilizes a two-rotor rotary EV system, which combines both an electric drive with a \u201chighly scalable rotary engine\u201d capable of burning new-aged fuel alternatives, such as hydrogen. This then combines a carbon-neutral drive while maintaining an evocative-yet-smooth ICE characteristic found in rotary engined cars like the RX-7.\u2060<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept also had projected numbers tied to it: approx. 365 horsepower in a body that weighs just under 3,200 lbs., which packages modern-day \u201clow\u201d weight with RX-7 power \u2013 more in fact, since the FD\u2019s 13B rotary Wankel engine output only 276 hp at most.\u2060 A low center of gravity and 50\/50 weight distribution evokes \u2018the joy of driving\u2019 \u2013 an ethos Mazda prides for the concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No production details or projections have been revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other automotive news, we got an exclusive sneak peek at the Honda portable, folding Motocompacto scooter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the Japan Mobility Show 2023, Mazda unveiled what is essentially a cross between its MX-5 Miata roadster and the \u201cIconic\u201d RX-7 FD. Aptly named the Iconic SP, the concept vehicle features a short wheel base, curvy coup\u00e9 lines and a compact cabin \u2013 similar design elements of the latest Mazda Miata. Likewise, exterior cues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-19160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car","tag-mazda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19177,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19160\/revisions\/19177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ayoyo.com.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}