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Day 35 and it's a #weekend #wedge New drawing this time. The Mazda RX-500 concept from 1970 #mazda #マツダ #RX500 #concept #コンセプトカー @Russelljwallis @bsillustration @jezdrawspicture @creatinglightly https://t.co/B3lswy69cH

Explore The Origins Of Mazda’s Rotary With This 1970 Cosmo Series II https://t.co/K5692wqKEV https://t.co/MwskOEXizj

1970 #Mazda EX-005 #EV; an electric bubble #car with its wheels arranged in a #rhombus format https://t.co/IQdwc1hUt9

Now I can make my Mazda as reliable as a 1970’s British Leyland car. https://t.co/uLSzbTUWER

The 1970 @Mazda RX-500 would be a better time machine than the #Delorean DMC-12. #ChangeMyMind #BackToTheFuture https://t.co/UddBNRq9HU

🚗 1970 Mazda RX-500 🚗 247 HP, 1.0L twin-rotor Wankel engine 4 Speed Manual One produced The RX-500 originally had an orange paint job before being repainted silver down the line and was also fully restored later, which led to a rumour that 3 were manufactured https://t.co/AzkzTKg0ej

#Mazda showed the #RX500 1970 at the #TokyoMotorshow: a radically angular & streamlined mid-engined athlete, which fascinated everyone. It only went in production through #Matchbox. Woe to those children, who played w/, instead of handling them w/ caution. I should restore mine! https://t.co/nF9cKPadni

Are there any vintage Mazda enthusiasts in Finland? With a bleeding heart I must give up my 1970 Mazda 1500 Estate restoration project I started when I was 16, before the barn crashes on it. https://t.co/7ZkEMeokqX

A #quirky 1970 #Mazda #Cosmo 110S #Coupe; the very rare export version of this #rotary-engined #wonder #car. https://t.co/6cnnyqYsvK

Which year was this Mazda Cosmos released? 1967 or 1970? https://t.co/sxOoD6sLFp

Review Q&A mazda 1970

What is the highest speed you have ever driven in a car?

About 135 mph, on a public highway, in the US… Perfectly legally. Until the 1970’s the state of Montana had no daytime highway speed limit. Many of it’s roads were long, straight, and empty. Rather than a specific number, the ‘limit’ was “reasonable and prudent”. In 1974, the federal government forced a 55mph speed limit on all highways. Montana complied with this act, but just barely. If you were pulled over for this, rather than a ticket for speeding, you would be given a ticket for “wasting natural resources”. It was all of $5.00. I knew people who carried around a wad of $5.00 bills to pay for this ticket on the spot (which you could do). In 1995, congress overturned the 55mph law, and the prior reasonable and prudent code returned. In December of 1998, the Montana supreme court overturned the reasonable and prudent law as being to vague. At which point there was no speed limit at all on Montana highways in the daytime. I took a road trip, going exactly 200 miles in exactly two hours. This is an average speed of 100 mph, but portions of the trip were slower (through urban areas and over passes), and some was quite a bit faster, including up to about 135 in my Mazda RX-7. In May of 1999, the Montana legislature passed its first actual daytime speed limit of 75mph.

Which parts price gave you the biggest shock while working on or having your car worked on?

About 40 years ago, I was the proud owner of a 1970 Mazda 1800 wagon. The car was a ‘test market’ vehicle, only sold in the U.S. for two years, and only in two states (WA & FL). When the brake master cylinder started to fail, I started calling the local auto parts stores…Not only did they not have the part, the CAR wasn’t even listed!* So, as a last resort, I went to the local Mazda dealer parts department. I knew I was in trouble when the counterman pulled the book of the shelf, and blew a cloud of dust off of it-it hadn’t been opened in YEARS, if ever. To make a short story shorter, several long-distance phone calls (computerized ordering was still in its infancy) later, I was told that the part was not available anywhere in North America. (The engine and running gear were essentially identical to the B1800 pickup, with certain exceptions) The upshot of all this? $99 plus freight, from Japan! (For comparison, master cylinder for a Toyota of similar vintage was about $30). I ended up buying the rebuild kit for a Toyota master cylinder (same bore size) for about $15. Mission accomplished… The BOOKS at the auto parts stores only went back to ‘72, when Mazda started selling the RX models…

How true was that past Korean automakers such as KIA used to take old Japanese Mazda engines and refurbish them and then put them in their cars in a similar sense to Hyundai used to take old pre-2016 Mitsubishi car engines?

Question: ,“How true was the rumor that in the past Korean automakers such as KIA used to take old Toyota engines and refurbish them and then put them in their cars?” Short answer: The rumor is false. But if one looks at how KIA designed and built cars, the basis for that rumor becomes readily apparent. Let me explain. There was no Korean automobile industry prior to the end of WWII. KIA, which until 1952 was known as Kyungsung Precision Industry, was a tubing and bicycle part manufacturer. In 1957 KIA began vehicle manufacture by building Honda motorcycles in Korea under license. KIA first assembled Mazda licensed trucks in 1962 and cars in 1974. In 1973 KIA opend the Sohari automobile manufacturing plant where they built the KIA Brisa, from 1974 to 1981. KIA also built a pickup truck version of the Brisa. Although built in Korea, the Brisa was actually a version of the second generation Mazda Familia which had been built and sold in Japan, from 1967 to 1973. The Mazda Familia was sold with one of three engines: a 50 horsepower 1.0 liter, a 58 horsepower 1.2 liter, or a 69 horsepower dual carburetor 1.3 liter. The 1974–1981 Korean KIA Brisa was in reality a 1967 Mazda Familia. This was common among all Korean cars which, until Hyundai sold its first Korean designed and built motor in 1988, assembled cars from imported kits or built copies of cars under license from Japanese and European companies. The Korean Daewoo, for example, was really a Korean assembled GM (Europe) Opel. The Japanese and European car companies did not, however, sell kits or license assembly of their current models. Rather they sold designs that were either aging or no longer sold in their home markets. Thus, if one was very familiar with Mazda cars, one might open the hood of a 1981 KIA Brisa and see what appeared to be the engine from a 1970 Mazda,. The same with Daewoos and Hyundais. Thus, the probable origin for the belief that KIA installed rebuilt used engines. If one did not know how they were sourced and manufactured, it would certainly look like they did. Note 1: In 1981 the Korean Dictator ,Chun Doo-hwan, ordered a consolidation of the Korean car industry that forced KIA to abandon the manufacture of cars from 1981 to 1987. During that time KIA only produced light trucks such as the Bongo. Note 2: In 1997 Hyundai acquired 51% of KIA after KIA declared bankruptcy. Hyundai now owns approximatey 34% of KIA’s shares. The two companies share both engineering and models.

How did the Tesla owners feel the first time they drove one?

I felt like Thor, with the hammer of Torque! This is from a performance enthusiast. (Sorry it’s so long) Have you ever come to the realization that something you have been doing for a long time was wrong all along? Well, not wrong, but just myopic and narrow-minded? I used to think that horsepower was something that great cars had, and torque was something that trucks had. I have always liked cars. One of my brothers had a friend who had a 1970 Dodge Challenger 440 six-pack in Go Mango. It was muscle-car heaven! It had 390 hp! 490 lb/ft of torque! I essentially spent 2 years, from age 14–16, being the gopher for their restoration of this car. I was a Mopar kid. I knew about Torqueflights and Posi-traction differentials and the pros and cons of four barrel vs. six-barrel downdraft carburetors. I was a gearhead, and I loved POWER! Over the years, my interests changed, but I was always a car guy. One day, I found that I had disposable income, and I decided to use it on a really nice car. I bought a 2002 BMW M5. She was everything the Dodge was, but better: 8 cylinder, RWD, stick shift, 400 hp, 368 lb/ft of torque, faster than a scalded cat, but refined and luxurious. This was the pinnacle of motoring! 0–60 in 3.9 sec, 155+Mph. An engineering masterpiece. I followed that with a decade of driving schools: Bondurant, Mazda, Audi, Dirtfish, Porsche Driving School, Formula Mazdas and Fords (as a lead and follow - I don’t have the skills to actually race open-wheel cars), etc. Did I mention I LOVE cars? I had been interested in Tesla in 2014, because I was a car guy, but I always thought: no vroom? a battery? I heard it didn’t have buttons? what happens if you run out of juice? a startup? nerds! So I’m on the way home . . . The Tesla Model S P85D had, just, come out. I mean ,just. I had read about it because it was a sub-3 second 0–60 car. So I thought, hey, let me call the Tesla store and see if they have one. They did. Sure I could take it for a spin! OK, so: Car guy from a young age - wrench turner Started my love affair with Dodge muscle cars - the rawest of the raw Found some success in life and indulged in cars Spent money and time pursuing my love affair with cars Have been lucky enough to have some nice cars Am looking at Teslas because, why not? They had a red one: With a black interior: So I get in the thing, and the first thing I see is the screen: It is nothing like anything I have ever driven, seen, or even imagined. Then we leave the parking lot, and it’s like driving a really nice golf cart. We get on the road, and finally make it to a freeway on-ramp. The sales person says I can hit the accelerator, so I do. WHAM! You know, I’ve driven a lot of cars. I’ve driven a lot of high-horsepower cars. I’ve driven a lot of high torque cars. But not like this! In an electric car, the motor is directly attached to the wheel with a 2 foot long driveshaft. This is the power curve from a dyno for the Tesla P100D. Just look at the blue line. It STARTS high! That, my friend, is 950 ft/lb of torque at the wheels. ,IMMEDIATELY. Oh, and by the way, it also has 580 hp. *yawn* This is a dyno of a Porsche Panamera Turbo black line, blue modified). That is 560 lb/ft of torque. ,Eventually . . . . And 540 hp, at 5,600 rpm. *snore* It’s difficult to explain to people what having 560 hp and more than 900 lb/ft of torque available ,all the time, means. It’s more fun than you can possibly imagine. You feel like your right foot is attached to a volcano. The “throttle” needs to be treated with respect. ,You cannot floor it in a Tesla P car without mentally and physically preparing yourself. You will run right up on the car in front of you, right now,. Be careful! Oh, by the way, that “throttle” that you treat with respect? Remember to treat it with respect ,at all speeds. Passing isn’t passing anymore. It’s just driving. Hills are an exercise in restraint., When you climb a hill or a mountain pass in a Tesla, it is no harder than driving on a flat road. You have to watch your speed. The “throttle” becomes a different thing at stoplights. If you are ever next to a Tesla at a stoplight, and you gun it to get around them, ,they let you,. If you are in any vehicle (including motorcycles), next to a Tesla P car, and you pass them; it is because: They don’t race They didn’t want to spill their coffee Someone was in the car who would yell at them They had a headache They just didn’t feel like it You people are getting tiresome Their back is sore from all the launches They weren’t paying attention Pity Yet you can still drive, and almost all the time you, do, drive, just like everyone else. Like a wolf in the fold . . . . It’s mind-blowingly fun.

Can I put any type of engine in any type of car?

WIthin reason,some people go stupid & fit 350 cubic small block Chevy V8 engines into ride on lawnmowers so some people can go overboard. This would’ve led a person to getting shot in Australia because it was only 20 odd years before 1972 that the world war 2 veterans came home from their war against the Japanese,Andy Perrett in New Zealand ripped this motor out of his 1972 model HQ Holden Kingswood :- then replaced it with this one :- It is the 20B triple rotor Mazda engine from the early 1990’s Mazda Cosmo,in the 1970’s no one who owned the HQ Holden Kingswood would’ve been seen dead with that engine fitted,into this car :- Yes, a lot of Aussies hated the Japanese !

If Porsche and Mazda collaborated to make a car, what would the final product be like?

The very impetus for the Mazda RX-7 was the Porsche 924 (and in many ways the RX-7 was better). The original RX-7 from the late 1970’s versus the Porsche 924 which was introduced a few years earlier. See the similarities? During the 1970’s and 1980’s, Japanese were still into the creative copycat era for Japanese design. For more examples, the Honda Civic, now in its sixth decade, is the Japanese take on the British Morris Mini-Minor (which had a revolutionary design but was horribly unreliable.) 1959 Morris Mini-Minor Versus the original Honda Civic of 1972. Even by 1989, the first iteration of the Lexus LS is clearly a rip off of Mercedes S class. 1980’s Mercedes S Class Versus the 1989 Lexus LS. And while we are at it, why not point out the similarities of the MG MGB and the Mazda Miata: 1969 MG MGB First generation Mazda Miata. (kindly suggested in the comments sections. Thanks!) And the connection of the venerable Toyota Land Cruiser and its inspiration, the Jeep. 1943 Willys Jeep Toyota Land Cruiser from the Korean War era So a collaboration would probably be skewed by the fact that for most of their history, the Japanese took their cues from elsewhere, and in this case from Porsche. A collaboration would probably be just a Porsche design with a bit more practicality and lower price.

What is the rarest car you have ever seen?

I own a automotive and marine detailing business in Minneapolis MN. We’ve worked on a handful of very rare cars. My favorite to date was a 1970 Mazda Cosmo. Very rare. Only 1100 made. 1/2 have been destroyed or totaled over the years. Less than a dozen were imported to North America of which only 4–5 are known to still exist. Parts are nearly impossible to find and when found are only found in junk yards in Japan. Here is a video of the car we detailed: 1970 Mazda Cosmo Orange Peel Removal Here is a blog write up on our specific project: Cosmo

What are the worst names and/or designs for cars in the last 100 years?

Hello there, Oh goodness there are some ,choice, bad ones - some intentional, and some not … I’ll go through my favourite examples. Fiat Ritmo, - this is the go-(slightly)-faster Abarth version. Not a success in the United States or Canada thanks to sharing its name with a then-well-selling brand of ,Toilet Paper,! Not the first example of toilet humour, as we will see… Renault Manager, - a,.,k,.,a. Renault 21. A freak of a name, as the initial idea for marketing it over the pond (i.e. USA and Canada) was to call it a ‘Chamade’ - this was found not to work because the Yanks and Canadians would either promptly call it a ‘Chemise’ and all its Victoria’s Secret connotations (remember kids, Americans are public prudes - and unhinged in private!) - or , else, be confused with the small economic Daihatsu Charade, which was already in the market. Which is difficult, but, there you go. The 21 was freaky for being produced as ,two, distinct platforms! One was FWD and very up to the minute, and the high powered versions were a completely RWD - but both featured the same auto slushbox which was, by all accounts, the reason for their insipid glacial acceleration … and the manual box was, well, woolly would be a nice description. Freaky name for a freaky car… Mitsubishi Carisma, - famous for having none. Nissan Cedric, - A strange name for a ,series, of cars, some of which have made it overseas under the names of Maxima (which is better, I suppose) or others. Nissan Gloria, - Another series of smaller four door cars over the years. Cedric’s girlfriend, perhaps? Mohs Ostentatienne Opera Sedan, - for a car that had ,no, ostentation, ,no, opera (though the larger ladies might have appreciated its sheer bulk in terms of interior space which was a redeeming feature), and ,no, sedan - its sole door was a rear hatch, making this behemoth probably one of the world’s largest hatchbacks (Jeremy Clarkson’s Fiat Giant Panda limo being the current world record holder - and funnier). Ford Probe, - Actually quite a sophisticated beast, it is a re-body of the best bits of the Mazda MX-6 sportscar. Its name, however, is iffy - I always associated it with a space probe (e.g. Pioneer 10, Voyager 1 & 2), however the majority of people tend to think more - ,medically,. In truth , though, Ford had made a number of ‘Ford Probe’ experimental cars in the late 1970s and early 1980s, one of which became (with a few mods) a production car - the Ford Probe IV, which then became the best-selling Ford Sierra from Ford Europe. Great Wall Wingle, - From China, and made there - shudder - and with a name like that I think it should be given a miss. Mazda Titan Dump,. More epic toilet humour from Japan. The truck, however, it a neat idea for tight spaces (wicked, ,wicked, grin - there’s just so much ,mileage, from this running gag…) Chevrolet Celebrity, - I suppose famous for being the last gasp of the much-reviled 1980’s K-cars trailing off into the 1990s. Not an actual celebrity, btw. Austin Princess, An oddly named car - this one’s clearly 1970’s, as it is brown and browner. Not a bad car… Then it had a transition and became the ,Austin Ambassador.,. The mind boggles. Audi Q8., What’s weird about this one ? Audi has sold millions of these Panzer tanks, and they are really popular everywhere. Say the name out loud … Kuuu. Aight. OK - this is a car the United States believes in liberating from the late Saddam Hussein, as long as they have a UN resolution to do so. And it's best if the car is liberated in the Persian Gulf (seeing as there are lots of them sold there, this isn’t a steep pitch). They’ll even have a war about it too… Toyota Urban Cruiser, - sadly a ,very, dodgy name for an otherwise competently engineered car. Mazda LaPuta, … sigh … named after Johnathan Swift’s flying city in ,Gulliver’s Travels, (which I have always found pleasantly bawdy - and do you know, there is a real Lilliput in Ireland?) which could fly with ,no visible means of support,. Spanish for ‘a fallen woman of ill repute’ and other fruitier names e.g. tart. Japanese oddness for sure. Toyota Toyopet, - which is the ancestor of the Corona and the Carina. Its name was literally a ,near miss. ,They wanted to initially call it - wait for it - the ,Toyolet. ,Can you imagine the witty repartee - ‘Hello, I drive a Toyolet.’ ‘You sure do buddy - you sure ,do.’ There are lots of others. James May picked up that the last Ferrari supercar has an odd name indeed … Ferrari LaFerrari, - Which James promptly - and correctly - labeled ‘The Ferrari The Ferrari’. Oh, it's a great car, but oddly named. But it's not alone… The track-only ,Ferrari FXX K, - the LaFerrari’s racecar version, and named - it seems - after the first words English speakers uttered on seeing it for the first time. Literally the f-bomb… Lamborghini Countach, - the name, in Piedmontese Italian, is also a slang expression when translated into English as the F-bomb, in expletive. There are many, many more, sadly. But this lot do stand out. With kind regards.

How is it that cheap Japanese cars (Honda, Toyota) are very reliable and don't break easily, yet expensive German cars (BMW, Mercedes) need a lot of repair?

Japanese cars aren’t really cheap but to your point: Culture of the industry in their respective countries. Take Japan first. Coming out of WWII, Japan was known for producing a lot of cheap junk. As they realized they never were going to get out of developing market conditions, they made a concerted effort in the 1960’s to improve the quality of their products, among other things, automobiles. You can read about their adoption of quality advocate W. Edwards Deming’s philosophy. This permeated into consumer demand as well. There is another factor that is taken for granted. Japan is a small country. There were about 110 million people in Japan in the 1970’s - literally half the US population at the time. Back then, there were pretty much the five big auto manufacturers we see today: Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi, Subaru (Fuji Heavy) and Mazda. So you have five auto companies battling it out in a small market whose consumers are obsessed with QUALITY and RELIABILITY. This is the battleground that the Japanese companies honed their product and processes and was built into their cars and when the time was right, shipped to the rest of the world in the late 1970’s. Japanese autos are typically behind the curve in sophistication - they don’t put a new gizmo in the car until market demand has been proven and the kinks have been worked out (usually by the Germans). Germany, on the other hand, was concentrating on quality but a different type. Today, German cars want to put in the latest and fanciest high tech features in their cars. This is why people buy them. They want the latest technology. Inevitably, once a new product is introduced, particularly electronic, it is bound to have failure problems. People don’t buy German cars for reliability, they buy them for the “Gee whiz” gizmos and performance - and, among other features, they were designed and built to be run on the Autobahn. If you read about German autos even such as the high end S Class Mercedes Benz (you can check it out on Quora) everyone complains about reliability (particularly with the electronics), repair and maintenance costs. But a lot of them are leased and they turn them in after five years or so. Mercedes drivers do not buy them for reliability or low maintenance costs -they buy them for the pizazz. Full disclosure: When my 2004 Lexus hit 200,000 miles we thought of buying a new one because of mileage but Lexus styling looked dated (according to my wife) and we just decided to keep it. It now has 225,000 miles on it, runs as well as the day we drove it home. Changed the original timing belt recently at 220,000 and it looked like it had only 50,000 miles on it - no trace of fraying or cracks and you could still read all the lettering printed on it.

Why was the rotary engine [Mazda] dropped/not taken up by other manufacturers?

I've never been confident enough to answer any question on Quora but being that rotary engines are one of my specialties it would help to set things straight. PREPARE TO LEARN The #1 thing that killed the rotary engine was EMISSIONS. Rotaries have port timing design that closely resembles that of the 2-stroke and like the 2-stroke, rotaries DO NOT like excess EGT's (exhaust gas temperature) or back pressure. Unfortunately high EGT and backpressure are un-avoidable when using catalytic converters to meet the ever tightening emissions regulations. In 1960/1970 something Mazda imported the Rx2, the first rotary Mazda car in North America to use the 12a engine. When tuned right and the smog pump worked the Thermal Reactor burned off excess CO2 and produced Smog numbers that could pass California's current standards. Unfortunately lack of care by un-willing owners have given the rotary engine the bad reputation of being unreliable. Even with all the proper emissions in place, simply pre-mixing 2-stroke oil and blocking off the OMP (oil metering pump [the thing that pumps engine oil into the intake]) 12a's and 13b's have been well documented going anywhere from 200k to 382k (not the highest i remember hearing) miles. Rotary engines are one of the most fun engine you will ever own. No they don’t have any torque, yes you need to care for them, and yes your gas mileage can range from 12 to 30mpg, but there is nothing like banging into second gear at 10k rpm and having the engine take it all day long.

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