Rare RX-500
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Rare RX-500
Stumbled on a page about rare Mazda - the RX-500. Designed in the 70s, it had innovative messaging tail lamps and doors butterfly doors (Lambo doors), a twist from Mercedes gullwing doors before Lamborghini ran with the concept and made it their 'Kleenex'.
http://www.conceptcars.it/japan/mazda/rx500.htm
Perhaps the first Lotus Esprit, the S1, was inspired by this car's profile.
RX-500 (1970):
![](http://www.conceptcars.it/japan/mazda/rx5003.jpg)
Lotus Esprit S1 (1976?):
![](http://www.mrsite.co.uk/usersitesv/matthazell.com/wwwroot/USERIMAGES/Lotus-side-web.jpg)
Oh, it turns out there's a bit of news on this car too:
http://rotarynews.com/node/view/1000
http://www.conceptcars.it/japan/mazda/rx500.htm
Perhaps the first Lotus Esprit, the S1, was inspired by this car's profile.
RX-500 (1970):
![](http://www.conceptcars.it/japan/mazda/rx5003.jpg)
Lotus Esprit S1 (1976?):
![](http://www.mrsite.co.uk/usersitesv/matthazell.com/wwwroot/USERIMAGES/Lotus-side-web.jpg)
Oh, it turns out there's a bit of news on this car too:
http://rotarynews.com/node/view/1000
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Nice find. Never seen that one before. The high, horizontal back reminds me the original (60's) Lotus Europa which, ironically, was eventually replaced by the Lotus Esprit you mentioned. There was seemed to be a flood of good, interesting concepts that came from that era.
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