In Mazda's product sequence, RX cars always have their own halo and are loved by fans. The biggest luminous point is the rotary engine that RX cars always adhere to. However, the discontinuation of RX8 in 212 made the "rotor sentiment" lose its carrier. As Mazda's rotor stopped production, the automobile history finally stopped for a period of time. The restless Mazda has always been restless, from RX-VISION, a brand-new concept sports car equipped with a rotor engine at the Tokyo Motor Show in 215, to the rotor engine that is about to return now.
I thought Mazda was gradually getting out of the endless cycle of "playing with the poor-making some cross-era models to make money-continuing to play with the poor-making some cars to make money". Unexpectedly, the old horse family just changed the way of playing with the sub-engine.
Mazda, which is unanimously evaluated by the automotive media, is "paranoid"-there is no shortage of paranoia in this world, and Mazda is one of them; "There is a kind of paranoia called Mazda"; "If it is not paranoid, Mazda will die" and so on.
The classic lines in "Initial D" became my first impression of Mazda. In the movie, Takahashi Ryousuke's FC is Mazda's legendary sports car RX-7. The ultimate control and twin-rotor engine of this car became the beginning of my understanding of Mazda. The "Zoom-Zoom" sound made by the shuttle cars passing by once shocked young hearts. Mazda-brings us long-lost memories, real feelings and vision for the future. "Zoom-Zoom" evokes childhood longing for movement and desire for speed.
in fact, a person's pursuit and dream of speed are innate. For example, when I was a child, I swung on a swing and drove a go-kart, which was very fast, which showed that people instinctively had a desire for speed and excitement. However, as a person grows up and the pressure of work, study and life increases, this instinct is gradually suppressed. Mazda wants to design a car to inspire everyone's childhood desire and dream for speed.
Only paranoia can survive, which is most effective in Mazda. Without that persistent insistence, it is estimated that only Toyo Industry will be remembered.
In the late World War II, Japan, a defeated country, decided to reform its domestic automobile industry in the early 196s to counter the impact of foreign automobile brands under the background of free trade. At that time, Toyo Industry had just switched from tricycle to four-wheeled vehicle, with no industry and no technology. It belongs to the object merged by Honda Nissan in minutes. The only way out is to have the core technology that can turn the tide, even one.
in p>1961, Mazda bought out the research and development authorization of engine technology from Germany's NSU company, and Mazda took a fancy to the rotor engine technology and regarded it as a "life-saving straw". Moreover, the patent of rotary engine was very expensive at that time. Even if faced with the risk of acquisition in the 196s; Even if the industry and research society question the practicality of rotary engines one after another; Even the cynicism of wasting the budget came from inside.
and the biggest charm of this technology is that if the rotary engine reaches the same power as the traditional engine, the speed of the rotary engine is three times as fast as the traditional one, so it has a more surging and smooth power output. In short, the rotor engine has a special structure, small volume, small displacement but high horsepower.
whether it's the rhythm of death, the outside world thinks that Mazda is burying his neck in loess, and he thinks that he can't die thoroughly, so he has to fill himself with more soil-to die more thoroughly.
when the things were brought back, the rotary engine was equivalent to a "defective product" at that time, which was also called "black technology" even if we look at it from the present perspective, not to mention the 196s. The product of advance is beyond our comprehension. The abnormal wear of cylinder wall, abnormal vibration of engine and airtight lubrication are beyond imagination, so it makes sense that Suzuki, Toyota, GM and other car companies can't play.
Without the experience accumulated from the past, we had to bite the bullet, so we had the "rotor 47 strong men", which was widely praised later, that is, a research and development department specially set up by Toyo Industry for rotor engines. It can be said that without these 47 people, there would be no rotor engine today.
after Toyo industrial was authorized to be a rotor engine, three years later, the twin-rotor engine 1A with high-strength carbon-based apex sealing technology showed the trend of leading the technical trend, and rotor models such as Cosmo Sport and RX2 were introduced one after another, and even the water rotor was tested on a pickup truck named REPU. Is it over? No, a minibus weighing 275kg can't escape Mazda's "rotor" upper body. In short, the rotor engine suddenly became Mazda's new hope. Later, the then fourth-generation president firmly believed that the rotor engine would be Mazda's way out and put forward a great vision: all its models would use the rotor engine.
It turns out that the genes that are biased towards (zuo) and (si) are all brought from the roots!
The extremely high R&D cost and the emergence of the oil crisis in the 197s have pushed the high oil consumption and high pollution of rotors to the forefront, and many car companies have given up R&D in succession, and Mazda's comprehensive rotor strategy has also died halfway. The final compromise became two lines: the traditional internal combustion engine for family cars and the rotor engine for performance cars.
Mazda established a five-year plan-Phoenix Immortal Bird Plan-to improve fuel consumption by 4%, and then the heat exchanger scheme was put forward, which made the Phoenix plan successfully achieved and exceeded the achievement of improving fuel consumption by 5%.
Mazda is still insisting on the research and development of rotor engines. RX-3 Savanna ended GT-R's 5-game winning streak in GP in Japan and set a record of winning 1 games for a single model in Japan. Subsequent RX-7 completely kicked off the legendary era of Mazda's rotor engine, and the peak of the rotor engine appeared in the 24-hour rally in Le Mans. In that year, Mazda 787B, No.55, won the victory with a huge advantage of two laps ahead of the second place, which won the only championship trophy for Japanese cars in Le Mans. The 787B was equipped with a rotor "heart" with 7 horsepower and four rotors.
because of its simple structure and light weight, the rotary engine greatly improves the load distribution and control of the automobile. Because of the unique transmission mechanism of the rotor and the output shaft, the rotary engine also has the characteristics of high speed and high power. However, its natural defects of high demand for materials and processing technology, low torque and high fuel consumption finally made it leave Le Mans.
In 22, with the closing of the last production line of RX-7, this car can only be remembered by many people.
in 212, RX-8 became the swan song of rotary engine with the announcement of production suspension.
But the world doesn't care at all. According to Mazda's tonality, the rotor engine may "cheat the corpse" at any time. Mazda may burn money to build the rotor one day.
Japanese car companies often have their own black technology, such as Toyota's hybrid technology; Honda's earth dream. Mazda's black technology is far more than just a rotor engine, and the other is today's protagonist: Chuangchi Blue Sky Technology.
Mazda set two strategies during the oil crisis in the late 197s: traditional internal combustion engines for family cars and rotary engines for performance cars. Today, it seems that all of them have achieved the extreme of paranoia, and the extreme of paranoia is puzzling. Even if you are spit out, you will starve to death sooner or later; Even without the rotor, I began to play with the blue sky; Even if being criticized for sacrificing space for the so-called sense of control.
nowadays, everyone's attitude towards internal combustion engines is either hybrid or supercharged. Mazda says no, they go back and continue to play NA, and then there is a blue sky. Even bluntly said that the current small-displacement turbocharging is entirely for the politically correct choice, so we see that Mazda does not have a small-displacement turbocharged engine. Mazda's insistence on NA is not without reason, because they think that the heyday of the turbine was in the 198s, and now it is an old and boring technology. They always feel that everyone is playing with what was left before and disdains playing with the turbine. Of course, Mazda also has a turbine, but it is not used for small displacement. MPS3, MPS6 and even CX-7 have all been equipped with a 2.3T turbine, while Mazda's new turbocharged engine has a displacement of 2.5L.
chuangchi blue sky technology has neither followed the supercharging technology to improve power nor used hybrid technology to save fuel, but fuel saving and good control are people's first impressions of Mazda models, so how did chuangchi blue sky do it?
Chuangchi Blue Sky is actually the floorboard of a series of technologies, including engine, gearbox, chassis suspension and other elements, which are composed of * * *. Engine with compression ratio as high as 14: 1, 6-hole high-pressure in-cylinder direct injection technology (secondary injection), 4-2-1 extended exhaust system, high-efficiency combustion design concave top piston+Miller cycle, Dual S-VT dual variable valve timing control system+electronic throttle with light weight, low friction resistance, lock-up clutch in hydraulic torque converter, new engine compartment buffer structure, and simpler underbody reinforcement beam, at the same time, more use is made.
Mazda's single-minded spirit has even reached the body color. In order to make its "Soul Red" car color look more unique, it took them five years to develop the car color, while the general car color development cycle only takes two years. If you have been to the Mazda Museum in Hiroshima, Japan, you will be greeted with excitement as soon as you enter the lobby. That is the pride of Mazda.
how to understand the Mazda brand? One of their own people said something that impressed me: it's small, but it shines. Yes, we see that MX-5 has become the world's highest-selling two-door convertible, leading major manufacturers to pursue this kind of car. Including Artz, Angkeira, CX-5 and CX-4, are also increasingly loved by young consumers around the world. What a good thing. I chatted with a friend of Artz's car owner before, and he bluntly "hated" the long horse and the horse. Why? Because he thinks a long horse and a horse sell such a good car so badly.