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  1. Mazda has made a niche for itself in cheap, entry level car market vehicles that are basically disposable after 8 years... So shitty rust proofing is what pay for... rust and corrosion is what you get.
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  2. +Lohan S Just the facts here kid... and the truth is always free of charge... anyone can look at the numbers of RX sales and see that the RX brand was in a fatal death spiral since 1986... Mazda had no choice but to pull the pull on the failing brand before it took the company to its destruction... if it wasn't for $3 billion in Japanese government bail-out loans Mazda would have ceased to exist years ago.
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  3. +Lohan S In case you are not familiar with Mazda (Toyo Kogyo Cork ltd.) kid??? The company has gone bankrupt 3 times in its rather short history... its biggest financial failure was after it attempted (miserably) to launch an all Wankel powered vehicle product line... if FORD MOTOR CO. had not purchased the company from a court ordered bankruptcy sale??? Mazda would have died out decades ago...
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  4. Mazda IS NOT TOYOTA... don't ever forget that son!
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  5. Some people only care about low price... not quality, its the very basis of Mazda's core customer business model.
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  6. @BoogieDownProduction YES, the facts... you must live in a very tiny, sheltered, delusional fantasy world created for yourself... here in the real world Mazda is struggling to survive in a shrinking market segment. BMW never needed a bailout or gone bankrupt 3 times like Mazda has... dropped like a bad habit by Ford... they are deepening their ties with Toyota which will most like acquire a majority stake if not an outright cash buyout in the not so distant future.
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  7. @BoogieDownProduction What is your point? Mazda is one of the smallest, least successful of the Japanese auto manufacturers... and they are currently being clobbered by the Koreans.
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  8. @BoogieDownProduction You are entitled to your personal opinions... but that does not change the fact that Mazda's market niche is selling cheap, entry level cars, it is not seen nor has it ever been perceived as a high performance or a high-end luxury marque... all of the companies efforts to move up-market have been met with failure. The small niche market for cheap Japanese cars that Mazda has occupied is now being overrun by cheap Korean and Chinese cars.
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  9. @BoogieDownProduction Subaru, Honda, Hyundai and Renault... these are underrated car companies... if anything Mazda is overrated.
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  10. @BoogieDownProduction I'm truly sorry that you can not afford to buy something better than a Mazda... perhaps you can go back to school and train for a better job? Mazda has dropped more bombs than the U.S. Air Force... https://www.nydailynews.com/autos/street-smarts/worst-mazdas-of-all-time-article-1.4042620
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  11. Interesting analogy but that does not explain the continuing success of reciprocating engines...
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  12. Wankel engines are like cigarettes, they are a waste of money and time and do not provide any benefits, only harm. Mazda dropped the Wankel engine like a bad habit in 2012 because no one bought them anymore and making them was a huge waste of money that was killing the company... the Wankel is finally gone now, good riddance!
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  13. All of the legitimate engine manufactures have abandoned the Wankel engine... it is now the sole domain of crackpots and vaporware investment scams Like Paul Moller/Freedom Motors, Davide Garside/AIE and Gilo Cardozo/Rotron Power... none of these con artists have ever delivered a commercially viable product or a reliable working engine for sale.
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  14. @Etownmaczilla 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZmd7k33JWE&list=PLmhSXyOMooSlhNQZShFYxRRiz2pB_jl-g&index=3&t=0s
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  15. @Etownmaczilla 1 There were also several companies making Rotary motorcycles too, long before the Wankel engine existed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Cq49IDfOc&list=PLmhSXyOMooSlhNQZShFYxRRiz2pB_jl-g&index=11&t=0s
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  16. @will Roland Only when a liter IS NOT A LITER son... I guess you have never heard of the "2X" conversion formula or learned how displacement is calculated???
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  17. @will Roland Then explain why people stopped buying them? Not a single engine manufacturing company anywhere in the world makes them anymore . Even Mazda discontinued them several years ago.
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  18. @will Roland Son, its very easy to spot the real trolls like you... all you have to do is read their sad pathetic comments which are always filled with bitter hatred, childish insults and completely devoid of any rational or factual arguments.
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  19. The Wankel engine has been obsolete for years.
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  20. Really? What makes you say that? Mazda discontinued Wankel engines because they just didn't sell... What is good for racing is good for sales and the RX brand sold poorly. Their racing performance was lackluster at best and did not inspire higher consumer sales.
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  21. The problem is tuning companies like RUF and AMG (which is a div. of Daimler-Benz now) work very closely with the manufactures... But since there are no companies that manufacture Wankel engines anymore? How can such a Tuner/manufacturer relationship exist? The RX brand was discontinued by Mazda years ago... how could such a symbiotic relationship be formed now? Wankel engines are obsolete in the manufacturing industry and no longer used in racing.
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  22. There is already a huge, custom aftermarket and exotic car industry in the automotive market that caters to anyone that wants something that is unique, different or special in some regard... but with exclusivity comes much greater costs a those that want something special must be prepared to pay accordingly. Mazda Motors has survived as a company by specializing in cheap, affordable entry-level cars targeted at first-time new car buyers... it cranks-out high volumes of just a few models to keep costs down and remain profitable. Mazda it has attempted several times unsuccessfully to break into the high-end luxury and high performance market but failed catastrophically. The Eunos, Amati and ɛ̃fini brands were all commercial failures and have been discontinued. The RX brand which was originally a very cheap, affordable sports car was repackaged as a high performance GT model with the RX-7 FD and this resulted in a very expensive mistake for Mazda, sales were terrible and the RX brands profitability spiraled ever downwards. The RX-8 concept also failed to sell enough units to turn a profit and the entire brand was discontinued in June 2012 to save the company from bankruptcy.
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  23. In contrast, Mazda's MX-5 developed from the Ford Duo-101 concept has been wildly successful and remains one of the companies best selling models ever. It remain the best selling low cost sportscar on the market and the best selling 2-seat convertible in history. Some of us love driving a rear-engine, rear-wheel drive sports car... but not enough of us for any manufacture to sell 100,000 units a year.... Porsche remains successful because its reputation for performance and quality commands prices in excess of 100,000 USD per car... No one is willing to pay 100,000 dollars for a Mazda though... so I suggest you start to appreciate the qualities that make the MX-5 a best seller.... or save you pennies for one of the more exotic brands. Cheers!
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  24. Mazda does not sell Wankel engines anymore.
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  25. SHOCKING NEWS! Mazda CEO Akira Marumoto has confirmed there will No New Rotary Engine. https://thedriven.io/2019/06/11/mazda-confirms-100-electric-car-model-for-2020/
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  26. All Wankel engines use the 4-stroke operating principle, the Wankel is not a 2-stroke.
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  27. @.SpiinDeX TROLL ALERT! Hey .SpiinDeX! Do not have anything better to do but troll people on Youtube? Sounds like your the one that needs to get a life... go troll somewhere else.
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  28. Skyactiv-X is real... and coming next year, Skyactiv-R was just a concept and does not actually exist in real life... Mazda only makes reciprocating engines now.
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  29. No offense taken... the Wankel is obsolete for one reason... it was not a very good engine.
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  30. Sounds like a great idea... putting an LS V-8 would be an even better idea.
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  31. @Gage Jerigen You obviously have no clue why these engines are completely obsolete in the manufacturing industry today... The automotive manufacturers know some things that you do not.
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  32. @Gage Jerigen That is a very naive statement that could only be made by someone who is not qualified or experienced enough to speak intelligently on this topic.
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  33. @Gage Jerigen You really don't know anything about engineering, the Wankel KKM design or its development history do you?
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  34. @dbspaceoditty The FIA never banned Wankel engines fron WSC competition... Mazda retired the 787b after losing the championship. This was all announced prior to the Le Mans race in June 1991.
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  35. @dbspaceoditty False urban myths, The RX-7 suffered steadily declining sales after 1986 and the FD was a huge financial failure... The RX brand was discontinued because the cars did not sell anymore... its that simple.
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  36. @dbspaceoditty You mean 20 years of false urban myths? There are no peer-reviewed publications that have ever made that claim.
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  37. @dbspaceoditty The 1991 season was the transition year to the new 3.5 liter engine formula... although most of the teams were already running the new 3.5 liter engine Mazda was allowed to still run the R26B. Mazda announced the Judd V-10 would be used next year (before the 1991 Le Mans 24 hours.
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  38. @dbspaceoditty Urban myths are caused by stupid lazy people like you... that mindlessly regurgitate lies and false information without ever bothering to check if what you are saying is actually true...
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  39. @dbspaceoditty Mazda retired the 787B because the chassis was slow and outdated, and Mazda did not want to invest anymore cash into a new 3.5 liter Wankel engine, they signed a deal to compete with the Judd V10 engine before the 1991 Le Mans 24 hours but it was the last season the old engine formula would be used.
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  40. @dbspaceoditty IF it was better??? Then Why did Mazda never win a single endurance racing championship? Mazda LOST the 1991 Le Mans series Championship to JAGUAR.
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  41. @dbspaceoditty If they were better? Why is it that people stopped buying them, Mazda discontinued them due to lack of sales.
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  42. @kling the king Skyactiv-X only exists as a 4-cylinder reciprocating design. Mazda no longer makes Wankel engines.
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  43. @Negative_Flect No one can make the Wankel better... its an inherently inferior design that cannot compete with reciprocating engines, it is obsolete technology.
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  44. @Dealor Did you know that Ford Motor Company once held more patents on the Wankel engine than Mazda... and they NEVER SOLD A SINGLE WANKEL ENGINE!
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  45. Wankel engines are obsolete... it was a dead-end technology.
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  46. You weren't paying attention then...
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  47. EVs are not the future... not 130 years ago when EVs were introduced and not now either... No amount of research will ever produce practical, rechargeable battery that can match the energy density performance of recharge rates of liquid hydrocarbons and this is why EVs have remained nothing more than a tiny niche market segment in the industry for over 100 years.
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  48. Millions of Diesel cars on the road right now... doesn't seem to be an insurmountable problem.
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  49. Yes, Its been done.. but Wankel engines are obsolete technology now... no longer produced anywhere in the world today.
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  50. Not really, 26 of the biggest and best engine manufacturers and over 100 universities and research institutes concluded that the Wankel engines were inherently and fundamentally inferior the reciprocating engines that are sold by the millions, the Wankel was both a colossal commercial and engineering failure.
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