Mazda · RX-7
Mazda RX-7 2nd generation (FC3S/FC3C)
- Years
- 1985–1992
- Chassis
- FC3S/FC3C
- Drivetrain
- FR
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Story
It adopted a newly developed platform, and its front brakes used the first opposed four-piston aluminum calipers on a Japanese car. A cabriolet marking the 20th anniversary of the rotary engine also appeared.
Chassis
Front
Strut
Width1,690 mmHeight1,270 mm
Wheelbase2,430 mmLength4,335 mmProduction plants
Fuchu, Aki, Hiroshima
US import eligibility
- Earliest cars
- Eligible since October 201025 years after sales began in October 1985
- Last cars
- Eligible since 201725 years after sales ended in 1992 (month not recorded)
Eligibility depends on each car's month of manufacture on its build plate, not on the sale dates shown here (NHTSA).
Engineers
He became program manager for the RX-7 and, in parallel with developing the ∞ (Infini) version and the Cabriolet, began development of the third-generation RX-7. He also served concurrently as motorsport program manager. After the third-generation RX-7 was launched, he worked in public relations and the design division, at Mazda North America and elsewhere, then retired and became a freelance motoring journalist.