[Auto] Mazda RX-10 Vision Longtail: a hypercar with rotary engines

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Designer Maximilian Schneider imagined the Mazda RX-10 Vision Longtail, a concept of hybrid supercar with rotary engines.

If there is one manufacturer whose style has been particularly successful in recent years, it is undoubtedly Mazda. The brand has accumulated successes and prizes, the most recent of which is that of "The most beautiful car in the world" 2020 with its Mazda 3, also a finalist in the "Most beautiful car of the year" competition at the Automobile Festival. International. It must be said that the designers of the Hiroshima firm know how to create elegant and very sensual lines that are dreamed of by many artists. Among them, we can indeed quote Maximilian Schneider, exterior designer currently stationed at Mitsubishi, but who does not hesitate to imagine models for other brands in his spare time. And this time, it is therefore Mazda that he is attacking, by designing a superb concept of sport, baptized RX-10 Vision Longtail.

 

 

We thus discover a study of style whose features take up all the aesthetic codes of the brand, with rounded, very Latin lines. However, this concept does not draw its inspiration from the Mazda series models, but rather from motorsport, since the designer claims that this RX-10 Vision Longtail takes on the proportions of group C sports cars of endurance competitions for years 1980. He affirms indeed to our colleagues from Motor1 “to balance the whole and inherit the Kodo design, I kept simple and three-dimensional lines, without adding too much like a too heavy aerodynamic kit or large spoilers " Successful challenge!

 

 

Tailored for Le Mans
Maximilian Schneider imagines this Mazda RX-10 Vision Longtail as a sports car intended to race during the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and therefore offered it a motorization up to its ambitions. The hypercar therefore has three Wankel rotary engines installed in the rear center position, claiming some 780 horsepower. But that's not all, because two electric motors complete the package, developing 125 horsepower each, for a total power of 1,030 horses divided between the four wheels. A beautiful technical sheet that allows the supercar to perform the exercise from 0 to 100 km / h in just 2.5 seconds, for a maximum speed established at 427 km / h. It remains to be seen whether Mazda could draw inspiration from this superb style study to create a sport intended for endurance racing, when its track record in this discipline is rather glorious.