Mazda Furai Concept
admin | 16 March 2008
Mazda Furai Model 2008 Detroit Auto Show
The blond and photogenic Franz Von Holzhausen, Mazda’s North American design chief, had the pleasure of “driving” the Mazda Furai model onto the stage during the press conference today in Detroit. (For most of the show, the Furai sat uncovered, but the company whisked it out of sight just before its official debut.)
Von Holzhausen revved the mid-mounted, three-rotor 20B rotary engine before disembarking, commenting, “It sounds good, doesn’t it?”
Indeed. As we reported in our full article on the Furai, this concept sports car is built on a racecar chassis from the American Le Mans Series. It’s fully driveable, and the engine develops some 450 horsepower.
