At this year's only heavyweight international auto show, nearly 100 brands are competing for the audience's attention. This year coincides with Mazda's centenary birthday. Mazda brought a number of classic models and100th anniversary special commemorative models to Beijing Auto Show, especially R360, the brand's first passenger car? The replica COUPE attracted the attention of many fans at the scene.
Mazda? R360？ Coupe is the first four-wheeled vehicle of Mazda brand. As soon as it went public, it caused a sensation in the Japanese auto market. In nine years, it produced 65,737 sets. In the 1960s, such sales achievement was absolutely a miracle. It is precisely because of the significance of this car to Mazda and its advanced design that this car has become a classic model in the Japanese automobile industry, and it can still be seen in the used car market until now.
Mechanical properties, R360? Coupe adopts four-stroke engine and automatic gear configuration for the first time, and actively adopts lightweight alloy materials to reduce the weight of the car body. Technically, all the advanced technologies available at that time were adopted.
Mazda's first model with dual-rotor engine? COSMO？ SPORT "and Mazda's first predecessor luxury flagship model" LUCE? Rotary? COUPE will also appear in glory.
Cosmo？ Sports are of great significance to Mazda brand. COSMO？ SPORT is the world's first vehicle equipped with a dual-rotor engine (RE). It first appeared in public at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1964, and went on sale in May 1967. This rotary engine has a maximum power of 94kW( 128 HP) and a peak torque of 140Nm. It is matched with a 5-speed manual transmission and has a top speed of 200 km/h.
The unique COSMO? SPORT's short front suspension and long rear suspension design bring unique body proportion to the vehicle. The low body outlines a slender and stretched figure, with rich design details and pure white car paint on the front, back and sides, which shows the unique style of car design in the 1960s and 1970s.
Mazda Luce? Rotary? The coupe, as the first flagship model of Mazda's predecessor luxury, was born in 1969. It belongs to a two-door hardtop without B-pillar and is equipped with 13a rotor engine. Its development code is "rx87", and the cars exported to markets outside Japan are named Mazda r 130. ?
Ruth? Rotary? The designer of the coupe is legendary Italian car designer Giorgetto, who is unique in modeling. He abolished the triangular window design next to the A-pillar and adopted the double-door hardtop design without the B-pillar, which became the first in the Japanese car industry. ?
In addition to these three classic models, Mazda also launched two100th anniversary models. The suggested retail price of FAW Mazda Artz 100 anniversary is 247,800 yuan, limited to 100 vehicles; The suggested retail price of Changan Mazda Angkeira 100 anniversary is 159900 yuan, limited to 300 vehicles.
At the press conference, Minoru Fujihashi, chief operating officer of Mazda (China) Enterprise Management Co., Ltd. said: "In the long history of a hundred years, it is precisely because of the help of so many people that we have survived one prosperity after another and come to today."
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