Mazda Furai concept: The fast and the Furai ious

From the December 2007 issue of motor trend Furai is called and designer Franz von Holzhausen says it should look like streamers flapping in the wind. It is the fifth concept's Mazda Nagare (River) series and the Visual realization of Zoom-Zoom. If you say so Franz.But is the car roaring at Laguna Seca's pit lane. The words is not found. It looks So...so..itchin! I have fallen, sputtering seventh grade Superlatives.Furai's a concept that is breathtakingly simple on paper, but fiendishly complicated version: "Let's a full race chassis and drop take a concept car body at the top."

 Naturally, there are more than that - 458-PS, triple rotor race-ready appliance need an engine in this case on pure ethanol (e100)-the first Rotary to do this. Mazda Rotary/ethanol combo called sustainable Zoom Zoom-not flowing fields of corn are spring, in the sense, if the Furai hits at the booth the quickly approaching 2008 Detroit car developed show.Furai in an exceptionally short amount of time for a concept. It was born in early 2007 and since then the gauntlet has of Holzhausen's team at a Furai OUs run pace (couldn't resist) to the car in running order. No time to test the design department timetable employs each of the clay Modeler, MAZDASPEED engineers were done basically crawling over each other to the car. For the power train guys meant that to be so that you could track start and run the car to the first painting-get up this morning at 5 am.

 Thank goodness that there is an open decibels tag in Laguna, where we are called to check out of the Furai in all its flowing glory. Yet, I bet the track guys some Aufrufe-have-not about Furai of angry Phwooooaaaaarr then about the chopper amounts low around the track of grabbing video.In in addition to the aerial assault, the video team also a Porsche brought 911 GT3 as camera car. Mounted on the cover in a complex arrangement gaffers tape and suck Cup is a massive HD camera. Double camera mount for lead is disabled the back bumper / follow footage. It is an impressive Setup that managed to raise eyebrows even under the jaded crew of journalists in attendance. How the Furai starts flowing through Laguna's twists and turns, it is clear that today a lot after GT3, arriving at the mines some 5-10 will do round Porsche seconds after the Furai during its shakedown. And from what we're told that is Furai's driver easy.