Back in the early 2000s, if you owned anything with more than a 13B rotary engine under the hood, chances are you were a poster star in the bedroom of teenagers across New Zealand, featured by this very magazine. Fast forward to today and owning anything beyond a 20B will likely earn you the same poster status in today’s era.
Taupo’s Rene Richmond wasn’t after that bedroom wall fame, but he did want an engine package that was going to give him the power and sound he was craving — a 20B PP that had the ability to chop gears like a cut cat with a sequential gearbox. He got that in 2020 and packaged a triple rotor into his well-presented Mazda RX-2, which now makes occasional appearances at special interest events like Rotary Reunion. Those event appearances are fitting too,
