Classics Monthly

CHILD OF THE REVOLUTION

BUYING GUIDE

In a world obsessed by SUVs, battery range and the colour of the Crit’Air sticker in your windscreen, cars like the Mazda RX-7 represent a welcome respite. Indeed, with its pop-up headlamps - a feature banned back in 2006 - and its decidedly whacky use of a rotary engine, it couldn’t be more of a rebel against modern car convention if it tried. Moreover, being a technological masterpiece and offering rocket-ship like performance, there’s no doubt about its future classic status.

Breaking cover in 1992, the FD was Mazda’s third version of the firm’s sports coupé. And if the fact it heralded a new generation of rotary engine wasn’t

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