I thought I'd share a few pics with you guys since there's been a few positive waves towards Mazdas ultimate rotang luxobarge of late. This is a mate's car, pretty much exactly as it was imported from Japan. The orgins of the kit are a little vague, not even sure if it's a one-off or not, but certainly it's a rare old thing. As, indeed are Cosmos.
This is the top-of the range model, with electric everything, full leather, wood trim dash, touch-screen computer, built-in CD multichanger... and of course, the world's first (and only) production triple-rotor engine and the world's first sequential twin-turbo system. In fact, there were a lot of firsts on this car, I believe it was the first to offer satnav as standard and touch-screen control for everything from the stereo to the aircon. Hands-free phone built in as well. This was Star Trek stuff in 1990
Of course, it's changed a bit since it left Hiroshima...
That rear shot really shows how much wider the car is now, going by the rear lights. Those ridiculous Panasport G7 splitrims wear 335-wide Pirelli P-Zeros, the same size and make of tyre as normally shoe a Diablo
Here's another one illustrating the extra width of the kit. There's some suspicion it may be made by Trial because they offer a similar kit for the NSX, but like I said, no-one seems to know for certain
Mazda at the time intended setting up a top-of-the-class range of cars within their portfolio, rather like Toyota's Lexus marque and Nissan's Inifiniti and suchlike, hence the Eunos badging. For similar reasons the 3rd Generation RX-7 was badged as an Efini, for example. The idea was dropped but a lot of the early 90's Mazdas have their own marque-within-a-marque identity as a legacy
Certainly has some presence on the road, it was a big car even as stock, but no-one knows what the hell it is... they just know it's wiiiiiide
Right, then, that's the shock and awe of the exterior then, let's move inside shall we? All in nice beige leather
It's a lovely place to be. The CD changer is built into the O/S passenger rear seat surround, the rear seats being sculpted like twin semi-circular buckets. Bit cramped! The front is very spacious though, in the twin-cockpit style that Mazda favoured for the RX-7 and MX-5 range as well
There's an aftermarket array of gauges built in nicely to the passenger side dash to keep an eye on that monstrous engine. Quality job of trimming them in, too. The badge commemorates the leMans win by the awesome 787B quad-rotor Mazda, still the only win for a Japanese maufacturer, as well as the only win ever for a non-reciprocating engine
The dash itself is all-electronic, a bit like Corvettes or Aston Lagondas, only with one important difference; it actually works! When the ignition's off it's just a blank, black sheet. A bit like Dillinger's desk in Tron lol
Turn the key and it all springs into life
You get to see a lot of the warning light on the fuel gauge, lol
Like I said earlier, the touch-screen controls everything, the climate control, built-in handsfree, stereo, the works. It is in Japanese, a lot of it, which isn't ideal though ;D
Got a reversing camera and DVD thing built in by whoever did the work on it aftermarket, too!
And the heart of the beast....
gone is the over-complicated setup of millions of miles of vacc lines and tens of fragile solenoids for the turbo sitching system. In fact, gone are the turbos. In their place is a single lusty Garret T88
blowing through an uprated intercooler (as is the radiator) but the standard throttle body and plenums (because there are no aftermarket ones available outside very expensive American or Aus fab shops lol) but they're more than up to the job
Yeah, it's got a nitrous setup installed as well, but that's just insane and it's currently disabled
Frankly, the last thing this beast needs is nitrous. It's fast! I mean genuinely, profoundly fast in a way hard to comprehend in something so huge. One of my most cherished automobile memories is of it monstering a 911 on the M1 going up to a show at the Pod. The fella in the Porsche thought he'd have a play, and the next thing he got handed his bum as a hat. My FD was in the top of fourth gear (and that's more than fast enough for the M1, believe me!) and the Cosmo and Porsche were pulling away like I was in reverse 911 driver lost, pulled off at the next junction, wouldn't look at us. His missus was laughing in the passenger seat though. Childish, yeah. But very funny.
There's nothing like the sound of a multi-rotor on full honk, it's a flat droning scream like an angry F1 car trapped in an echochamber. Have a YouTube search for Mad Mike's quad-rotor Red Bull drift car in NZ and cum on feel da noize sometime. If ti doesn't put the hairs up on the back of your neck, you can have your money back lol. But you're already dead in the soul if it don't ;D
So there ya go, a quick shufti round one of Japan's little-known but most definitely super, supercars. Made mad in Hiroshima, made madder by some unsung twisted genius and then used and abused in the UK. Hope you find something to love in this humble li'l thread
This is the top-of the range model, with electric everything, full leather, wood trim dash, touch-screen computer, built-in CD multichanger... and of course, the world's first (and only) production triple-rotor engine and the world's first sequential twin-turbo system. In fact, there were a lot of firsts on this car, I believe it was the first to offer satnav as standard and touch-screen control for everything from the stereo to the aircon. Hands-free phone built in as well. This was Star Trek stuff in 1990
Of course, it's changed a bit since it left Hiroshima...
That rear shot really shows how much wider the car is now, going by the rear lights. Those ridiculous Panasport G7 splitrims wear 335-wide Pirelli P-Zeros, the same size and make of tyre as normally shoe a Diablo
Here's another one illustrating the extra width of the kit. There's some suspicion it may be made by Trial because they offer a similar kit for the NSX, but like I said, no-one seems to know for certain
Mazda at the time intended setting up a top-of-the-class range of cars within their portfolio, rather like Toyota's Lexus marque and Nissan's Inifiniti and suchlike, hence the Eunos badging. For similar reasons the 3rd Generation RX-7 was badged as an Efini, for example. The idea was dropped but a lot of the early 90's Mazdas have their own marque-within-a-marque identity as a legacy
Certainly has some presence on the road, it was a big car even as stock, but no-one knows what the hell it is... they just know it's wiiiiiide
Right, then, that's the shock and awe of the exterior then, let's move inside shall we? All in nice beige leather
It's a lovely place to be. The CD changer is built into the O/S passenger rear seat surround, the rear seats being sculpted like twin semi-circular buckets. Bit cramped! The front is very spacious though, in the twin-cockpit style that Mazda favoured for the RX-7 and MX-5 range as well
There's an aftermarket array of gauges built in nicely to the passenger side dash to keep an eye on that monstrous engine. Quality job of trimming them in, too. The badge commemorates the leMans win by the awesome 787B quad-rotor Mazda, still the only win for a Japanese maufacturer, as well as the only win ever for a non-reciprocating engine
The dash itself is all-electronic, a bit like Corvettes or Aston Lagondas, only with one important difference; it actually works! When the ignition's off it's just a blank, black sheet. A bit like Dillinger's desk in Tron lol
Turn the key and it all springs into life
You get to see a lot of the warning light on the fuel gauge, lol
Like I said earlier, the touch-screen controls everything, the climate control, built-in handsfree, stereo, the works. It is in Japanese, a lot of it, which isn't ideal though ;D
Got a reversing camera and DVD thing built in by whoever did the work on it aftermarket, too!
And the heart of the beast....
gone is the over-complicated setup of millions of miles of vacc lines and tens of fragile solenoids for the turbo sitching system. In fact, gone are the turbos. In their place is a single lusty Garret T88
blowing through an uprated intercooler (as is the radiator) but the standard throttle body and plenums (because there are no aftermarket ones available outside very expensive American or Aus fab shops lol) but they're more than up to the job
Yeah, it's got a nitrous setup installed as well, but that's just insane and it's currently disabled
Frankly, the last thing this beast needs is nitrous. It's fast! I mean genuinely, profoundly fast in a way hard to comprehend in something so huge. One of my most cherished automobile memories is of it monstering a 911 on the M1 going up to a show at the Pod. The fella in the Porsche thought he'd have a play, and the next thing he got handed his bum as a hat. My FD was in the top of fourth gear (and that's more than fast enough for the M1, believe me!) and the Cosmo and Porsche were pulling away like I was in reverse
911 driver lost, pulled off at the next junction, wouldn't look at us. His missus was laughing in the passenger seat though. Childish, yeah. But very funny. There's nothing like the sound of a multi-rotor on full honk, it's a flat droning scream like an angry F1 car trapped in an echochamber. Have a YouTube search for Mad Mike's quad-rotor Red Bull drift car in NZ and cum on feel da noize sometime. If ti doesn't put the hairs up on the back of your neck, you can have your money back lol. But you're already dead in the soul if it don't ;D
So there ya go, a quick shufti round one of Japan's little-known but most definitely super, supercars. Made mad in Hiroshima, made madder by some unsung twisted genius and then used and abused in the UK. Hope you find something to love in this humble li'l thread
the body kits not my cup of tea but you can't deny it's presence.
