Mazda Taiki

The Mazda Taiki, revealed at the 40^th Tokyo Motor Show in October 2007, culminated Mazda’s text for the show “Sustainable Zoom-Zoom – Mazda’s showroom today and in the future.” The Mazda Taiki sets a reinvigorated ideal for the front-engine rear-drive sports car of the future and continues the evolution of the Nagare design theme, following in the footsteps of the Mazda Nagare, Mazda Ryuga, and Mazda Hakaze universal vehicles. The challenge to create “a design that visually expresses the flow of air” was inspired by the image of a pair of Hagoromo—the flowing robes that enable a celestial maiden to fly in Japanese legend—floating down from the sky. Inspired by dint of. Japanese koinobori—the decorative “climbing carp streamers”—the notion of creating an Air-tube became the concept expression. for the interior design. As the fourth in the series, Mazda Taiki more remote advances and refines the composition through a liquefaction of the Nagare (flow) contrive concept and real-world technologies, such as a next-generation rotary engine and enhanced aerodynamic performance.

In developing the next-generation RENESIS, Mazda made a thoroughgoing re-examination of engine dimensions including the trochoid rotor housing, adopting a longer stroke and larger displacement of 1600cc (800cc x 2) aimed to raise thermal efficiency and boost torque at all engine speeds. By employing the Hydrogen RE design policy of a sincere injection system and aluminium side housing, as well-head as various other measures, we are further promoting the rotary engine’s merits of light weight and compact size.