Tom Matano, the man who helped bring the original Miata and FD-chassis RX-7 to life, has passed away at the age of 76.
You might remember Paul Reubens best from his role as Pee-wee Herman, but did you know he owned a first-gen Mazda RX-7, too?
Not a replica or a tribute, but a Mazda RX-7 used on screen in "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift."
A more exclusive FD-chassis RX-7? The R1 was only sold in North America, and Mazda only built 350 of them in Competition Yellow Mica.
Not just a Japanese-market RX-7, but one modified by Japanese tuning shop Knight Sports.
While we're at Mecum's Kissimmee sale this week, Editor David S. Wallens will be keeping a close eye on these 10 cars in particular.
Despite a weekend at Gridlife that resulted in a broken RX-7 and a flat trailer tire, our own James Wood would do it all again if given the chance.
The second-gen RX-7 may be a desirable icon today, but back in the early 2000s, it was all but forgotten–making it an ideal, inexpensive sports car to take racing.
I didn’t plan to do Gridlife as a spectator.
The original plan? Show up, unload, race, maybe break a personal best–or at least not break the car.
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Installing a full suite of Haltech electronics–ECU, dash, power distribution module and even a fresh wiring harness–sounds like a clean, efficient, modern solution for a race car. Something …
It started like most of my worst ideas do: sitting in the garage, staring at the empty engine bay of my RX-7, sipping cold coffee and letting Marketplace …
It’s always easier to make upgrades when a car is apart, right? While getting ready to build a new engine for our LS-powered RX-7–the old one went boom–we …
The struggle is all part of the story, right?
If so, then do we have a great story about an LS-swapped Mazda RX-7.
On paper, it was simple: …
Pure Rotary Heaven.
Former SCCA IT7 racer, resurrected after sleeping for 10 years
This is our 1988 Mazda RX7. We built this to run in the SCCA STL and EP classes.
satin gold mettalic, red leather interior, NA 13b, rocking them cheap tires on some stock wheels, that thang slides but only when ion want it to;) currently working on an …
