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Thread: REPU Brochure
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wankel_dreams
Redlining
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posted March 11, 2002 05:06 AM |
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REPU Brochure
uploaded scans of REPU brochure to the image gallery
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74 wankel panther
77 REPU
79 rx7
89 Vert
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Jeff20B
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posted March 11, 2002 04:15 PM |
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Thanks!!! Wow, what a truck!
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'74 REPU
'76 Cosmo
'77 MG Midget 13B
'81 RX-7
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rotarynews
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Too Many Rotary Websites
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posted March 12, 2002 09:09 AM |
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Jeff20B
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posted March 12, 2002 10:53 AM |
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Yeah, that brochure got me all fired up about some Mazda product that I haven't felt since the RX-8 and Cosmo21 were unvieled (and the 3rd gen, like 10 years ago). Mazda's latest trucks don't do that for me.
I'd like to see the same sort of step-up from piston version to rotary version today as was seen back then (wider stance, better brakes, higher payload, more power etc). Is Mazda currently even capable of such a 'chore' right now? Definitely not. But if the RX-8 does as good as the 1st gen (doubtful), I'd push for the Cosmo21 and a new rotary truck.
Wouldn't that suck if the 70s really were Mazda's golden time for rotary power? Even with the gas crisis and everything, Mazda still had bigger balls and risked a lot more back then, then they have today. All I can do is hope the RX-8 does well. My bro wants one but he's a rotorhead so that doesn't count. The piston lovers are the majority that'll need to be convinced. That and the idiotic americans who simply get in and go (the Renesis should be able to handle that much better than the REW ever could).
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'74 REPU
'76 Cosmo
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'81 RX-7
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Klaus43
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posted March 13, 2002 12:21 AM |
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One, two, three, four....
See, rotorheads DO TOO count!!! Forget convincing the idiot masses; they'll NEVER give a damn...but as for Mazda's rotary heyday, and Balls,: The same thing happened to so many musicians/ groups--the early stuff rocks, then turns disco, then cheezy pop crap, then wannabe retro comeback B.S. No solution, just the way of things.
"Accept it and get over it"--Electric Howie
I love my 'old school' Mazda's, and don't expect anything'll ever quite compare or replace 'em. That's why they're so cool! New might be great, might not. Hotrod REPU's will never die.
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Jeff20B
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posted March 13, 2002 12:59 PM |
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So you're saying that the rotary golden age has indeed passed? I wonder if Mazda is in retro mode yet? If the Cosmo21 is any indication, then yes.
Yeah, of course us rotorheads count as far as upping the RX-8's sales over what they potentially might be without us, but my point was about the dunderheads/masses who might not get this car based on the immediately previous car (3rd gen) and all its problems (the differences are obvious to us, but to someone who thinks choosing different brands of peanut butter at the supermarket is a big decision, I can only wince). Well, that's what PR machines and add campaigns are all about; changing people's minds and opnions for them. In this case it's for the better.
This is the brochure thread so to keep it on topic, I'd just like to say that the brochure 'sold' me on the REPU. If I could travel back in time, I'd go to late '73-early '74 and get myself a brand new REPU (as well as examples from all the RX-generations and even the R100).
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'74 REPU
'76 Cosmo
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'81 RX-7
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Klaus43
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posted March 14, 2002 09:48 AM |
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It's just the age/ It's just a stage...
O.K., alright; I'm into technological innovations, too... Golden Ages come and go...but steel is steel, and plastic, well... isn't.
That IS a great brochure! In conjunction with a 'spirited' testdrive, it would've 'sold' me, too--had I been old enough to drive/be in the know/market for a REPU. Certainly a paper record of one facet of what undeniably WAS a 'golden age'... that great year known as 1974. Some excellent music was created that very same year...what was it in the air, water, or stars? Something about post-sixties pre-disco, pre-oil crisis America (and the rest of the world....). Newfound freedoms--new ideas and the openness to explore and create-- the war in Vietnam over, and a new kinda motor exploding on the American scene from, of all places, HIROSHIMA!?!
Let's hear it for the year of the biggest stock intake ports on any 4port 13B! Viva 1974!
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