My father is a teller of tales, most of which are true. Some of my favorites include the cars he should have bought when he had the chance. If you’re a Fiend, you’ve probably got a collection of similar stories locked away inside your head, draped with regret. There was the MG racer down the [...]

No, not the RX-8. Real RX-7’s don’t have four doors. Period. Word ‘round the Web says that while Nissan and Honda are cutting the fun out of their line-ups, Mazda’s looking to build a legitimate successor to the sexiest of all RX’s — the FD RX-7. Details are understandably sketch at the moment, though word [...]

The teams of the 24 Hours of LeMons keep rolling in. Meet team “One Point Twenty One Jiggawatts!” out of Denver. I guess if you kinda squint out of one eye, a 1980 Mazda RX-7 does sort of look like a DeLorean. Sorta. We’re guessing at least one crew member dressed up like Doc Brown [...]

Mazda’s “Nagare” design language, as seen on such concepts as the Furai and Kazamai, has been a smash hit. Now, Japanese tuner RE Amemiya has taken one of our all-time favorite Mazdas, an FD3S RX-7, and applied a very  Nagare-like streamlined body. I especially dig the concealed rear wheels and the big aero covers [...]

As we’ve learned over the course of the past week, the Sharks’s Clay Bush is one whiney beyotch. Hey look, bad drivers happen, but no need to crow about it. Though, Clay’s 60-second profanity drum solo is pretty epic. I’m going to to you all a story that I told every team that came up [...]

Occasionally, something comes along that’s so common sense, so stare-you-in-the-face obvious you wonder why you didn’t think of it first. Magnetic screwdrivers. Florescent trouble lights. A rotary-powered Miata. After all, the RX-7 was a godsend because of its high-revving, siren-song 13B rotary. Mazda has another heavenly ride in its stable in the Miata. Anyone who [...]

Yesterday’s eBay Trolling Discovery was a gorgeous Lancia that nobody except a trillionaire should buy. On the other hand, this 1974 Mazda RX-4 rotary wagon clocks in at a very sensible $6000 asking price, with the possibility of getting the seller to come down a little. The important part is the claim that its Wankel [...]

So, the boss has asked us to pick our favorite engine swap. As fate would have it, I have a friend who knows a thing or two about swapping… and the odd thing is that he was just a toddler in the ’70’s! Matt “Tinman” Johnston is that rare and valuable combination: good friend and [...]

Yes, my dreams are still being haunted by epitrochoid-shaped visions of driving greatness. Yesterday we shared with you our happy thoughts on the rotary powered bombshell that is the Mazda RX-8 R3. And that let us to yesterday’s POTD, the Australian-Japanese mashup Mazda Roadpacer. Now, while I was poking around looking for a decent picture of [...]

The Japanese automaker has set a self-imposed deadline of 2015 to have a completely revised, more fuel efficient line-up. So far Mazda has focused on ditching extra poundage in order to glean more miles per out of their fleet, but over the next few years direct injection and start-stop technology will work its way into [...]