Eight of These Forty Mazdas Are Rotaries, From the Cosmo to the RX-8 / Mazda Evolution 1940–2038

Eight of the forty cars below were sold with a rotary engine. They run from the 1967 Cosmo Sport to the 2003 RX-8 — thirty-six years of a layout almost everyone else tried and abandoned. The timeline below runs from a 1940 Type DA to a 2038 concept called Taiki. Along the way: the R360 that put Mazda into production cars twenty years after the DA, three separate RX-7 entries between 1978 and 1992, the MX-5 that appears here in 1989, the MX-30 that is the first electric car on this list, and the 2027 Iconic SP, the ninth entry with a rotary. Every car in this Mazda evolution, 1940 to 2038 1940 Type DA · 1960 R360 · 1962 Carol 360 · 1967 Cosmo Sport 110S 1968 Luce R130 Coupe · 1970 Familia (323) · 1971 Savanna RX-3 · 1973 RX-4 1978 RX-7 (FB) · 1980 Familia/323 III · 1984 RX-7 (FC) · 1987 626 1989 MX-5 Miata (NA) · 1991 Sentia · 1992 RX-7 (FD) · 1994 Millenia 1996 Demio I · 1999 MX-5 Miata (NB) · 2002 Atenza / Mazda6 I · 2003 RX-8 2004 Verisa · 2006 CX-7 · 2007 CX-9 · 2008 2 (Demio) III · 2009 3 II 2010 Premacy / Mazda5 · 2012 CX-5 I · 2013 Atenza / Mazda6 III 2014 Demio / Mazda2 IV · 2015 MX-5 Miata (ND) · 2016 CX-3 · 2017 CX-5 II 2018 CX-8 · 2019 CX-30 · 2020 MX-30 · 2021 CX-50 · 2022 CX-60 · 2023 CX-90 2027 Iconic SP · 2038 Taiki Chapters 00:00 The Type DA, the R360 and the Carol 360 (1940–1962) 00:19 Cosmo, RX-3 and the First Rotary Years (1967–1987) 01:15 The Miata, the FD RX-7 and the Nineties (1989–2002) 01:56 RX-8, the CX-7 and the First CX (2003–2010) 02:37 CX-5, CX-30 and the SUV Line-up (2012–2023) 03:39 Iconic SP and the 2038 Taiki (2027–2038) Sources · Mazda Cosmo Sport 110S, 1967 — Mazda's first production rotary car · Mazda RX-8, 2003 — the eighth rotary entry on this list · Mazda R360, 1960 — Mazda's first production passenger car, twenty years after the Type DA ▶ Next: Nissan → https://youtu.be/jQxe2kuZD34 ▶ Then: Bugatti → https://youtu.be/Yt-CVyAsySo #Mazda #RX7 #Miata