Hot News: Hydrogen Power For Next Mazda RX-8

Buyers of Mazda’s next-generation RX-8 really will be having a ‘gas’! That’s because the firm is planning to offer it with a hydrogen-powered engine, Auto Express can reveal.

In a bid to curb the current car’s high fuel consumption and emissions, Mazda has decided the only way to make its rotary engine clean and green is to offer a dual-fuel version capable of running on both hydrogen and petrol. Mazda has been experimenting with hydrogen power for more than two years now, firstly in the RX-8 Hydrogen RE, and more recently in the Premacy MPV.

One source close to the firm suggested top brass will even discard the RX-8 name and employ a new badge, most probably RX-9, to highlight the coupé’s hydrogen-petrol dual-fuel powertrain.
Read Article

holmstar - 8/5/2008 10:17:52 AM

+1 Boost

if they rename it the rx-9, there would be an even bigger gap for a new rx-7.

Audiphile - 8/5/2008 11:53:31 AM

+1 Boost

More power to them. Good luck.

holmstar - 8/6/2008 11:12:37 AM

+1 Boost

didn't someone at Mazda just make a statement that hydrogen cars would not be available to the mass-market until 2020?