The desirability of the rotary-powered 1974 Mazda must be weighed against the trouble of owning the "uncommon" power plant along with the super cool chassis.
This may be part of the reason Mazda dropped the design in 2011 - a move that made lots of people sad, because of the cult following rotary engines enjoy. Also, they've always had problems leaking oil. Rotary engines generate more power for their size, but get surprisingly bad gas mileage. It should be mentioned that the 2011 model pictured above has a normal piston-type engine, as well as the entire current lineup of Mazda models. It's always been a bit of an oddball engine design that's also terribly clever. This should indicate a fundamentally superior deign, but it never seemed to get perfected like the piston engine. With no parts that need to move, stop, reverse direction, and move the other direction thousands of times per minute, the rotary engine has far fewer moving parts than a piston engine and can spin much faster, with less vibration. "triangle" that basically spins around and around inside a kind of oval-shaped chamber. This constant reversing of direction (pistons moving up & down) can be considered "wasted energy", from an engineering standpoint. Most engines have pistons that turn a crank that makes the wheels go. Off the top of my head, I can't think of another widely produced engine that's as vastly different from the ordinary type of engine. The 1974 Mazda also has a "Wankel Rotary Engine". All in all, this is what you'd get if you asked a five year old girl to design a car for you.ĭisclaimer: The Mazda 3 is a stylish, reliable car and everyone should have one. The upper part of the "mouth" and the "dimples" on the sides are just decoration. The second picture with the blue car shows this in clear detail. That grin? only the bottom third actually lets air in. Mazda violated all of this when they pretty much painted a grin on their car with black plastic. The grilles and intakes on the front of a car should indicate where a grille or intake is located. Lots of people call it a "cheshire cat grin".
Mazda thinks the front end is cute and charming.
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