The challenger spirit ties nicely into another new initiative launched recently, where Mazda rebooted Mazdaspeed under the name Mazda Spirit Racing, promising sportier roadgoing models under the new performance arm, including a new MX-5 Miata variant.
The new RE Development Group is the first step to Mazda realizing a successor for the RX-7 and RX-8, which have long been rumored but never materialized. Despite concepts like the RX-Vision garnering massive public support, Mazda was seemingly never able to get enough momentum to get it into production.
Now, there’s hope, and if the dozens of patents Mazda has filed in recent years – from tri-rotor sports cars to various efficiency patents for rotary engines – are anything to go by, the automaker has a headstart on what comes next.