Definitely not a seport. Good find bro'.

The car looks promising, and the fact it's supercharged opens up new doors for yours truly.

 

I like the new kit a little better too. Although, I want to see that hoodscoop in more detail and those fog lites have to go.

Great find though.

 

Instead of the black headlight covers, I hope they do a clear lens with body colored backing like the Ferrari 360 Modena and the new Corvette. Looking closer at the photos, it even looks like the rear diffuser is new too.

 

Ferrari style headlights would look great, and i agree the rear diffuser does look different.

 

Diffuser or wing? It's kind of hard to see the diffuser.

 

Hopefully the supercharged RX-8 will be released outside of the japanese market , at a reasonable price ????

cheers
michael

 

Hopefully any kit will be released... This is killing me.

 

Different design yes, is it a mazdaspeed design or not well who knows. The bold print said Mazda's Super Secret RX-8 not Mazdaspeed RX-8. It is a stunning design for the kit but IMO i think we should wait till we get a bit more info about it before making any speculations.

 

The front end looks very similar to racing beat's front end w/o the cross bar in the middle.
Also note the black head light and tail light masks. Those look sexy.
There's more! The rear end is a solid white as well and it's got euro style mirrors.

Very sexy.

 

True. Until it's officially released, everything is speculation. But as it's a Mazda factory car, I assumed the new body kit is either Mazdaspeed or simply Mazda. Mazdaspeed had several kits over the years for the FD RX-7.

Regardless if it's Mazdaspeed or Mazda, I love it!

 

THE SIDEskirts seem to flow alot better into the wheel arches. almost like its made that way and not just added on. maybe its just me?!? and the rear side right behind the wheel well looks catches my eye as being different but that could be because its all one color. is the front the same as the "mazdaspeed 2" body or is it also different? either way i am liking this look more than the original mazdaspeed kit.

 

Amen Brother Man RX-8 enthusiest type person also known as Omicron.. I have a lot of time put into my 8 modding it so far and really don't want to sell it then buy the supercharged one.. a reliable bolt on kit, even if it doesn't fall under the warrenty, is number one on my list if this rumor pans out to be true.. lets just hope it's not 5 years down the road..

 

Well this cat is out of the bag.... unfortunately due to this R&T article/scoop, we were unable to display this bad boy at SevenStock this year. We had it all ready to go, but they pulled the plug on us, the day before the event. It was understandable, but still a dissapointment.... for all those that attended SevenStock, it was right behind a few doors!!

The car does have a one-off body kit, including scoop and unique body treatment. It has actually been in development for a 1 year +. This is something that the Mazda R&D boys here in the USA (including MazdaSpeed NA) have been working on, so if it ever makes production, it will be available in the USA. It's still only a concept study.

btw, It looks pretty good in person too!! :D

-Bern

 

wait a second. So you saw this car, in person, and you didn't take pictures?

 

Does anyone else think that its cool that it has the white paint on white rims look of the Ann. Ed. of the FC made in '88? I think its sweet!

 

i bet berny did... when R&T dudes weren't looking

 

Wow great find ... supercharged .... sign me up ... looks great .... Bern you're teasing us ... bet you have more info to release once the Speed article is out?

This should be a stickey

 

More details please! How much hp/torque? What kind of supercharger? Potential target release dates? etc. etc...

 

As you are most likely aware Mazda motorsport have also created a forced induction RX8 here in Australia and it was shown at the sydney motor show they said that it was a concept car but would not be going to be available here in Australia .
They were hoping to get 270kw and a huge 350 nm :D

http://www.mazda.com.au/currentnews....cleZoneID=3225

cheers
michael

 

Got proof ? lets see a bigger better photo of it since it is going to be on newsstands nationwide anyway. :D

 

I wonder if this was the car that was at Racing Beat during the focus group. They had an 8 there that was covered but definitely had a hood scoop bulge and the rumor at the time was that it was supercharged.

 

Cool find! Thanks!

I'm quite eager to check it out on newstands...

 

So, does this mean we were all looking at a blown 13B sitting on the porting bench at Racing Beat during Sevenstock7, that was part of the testing for this car??

OMFG

 

Which doors?? If I only had my cloak of invisibility with me!

 

Please, please, please let this be sold in kit form as well....