Top Gear and the RX7

HOZZMANRX7 · 2012-12-07 06:52:42

Top Gear episode for the FD guys:nod: Mazda RX7 FD & Mitsubishi 3000GT tested on Top Gear appox 1993 - YouTube And for us FC guys, albeit a very dinosaur version of Top Gear: Top Gear RX-7 vs 924 - YouTube

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12-07-12 | 01:52 AM

HOZZMANRX7

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Top Gear and the RX7

Top Gear episode for the FD guys

And for us FC guys, albeit a very dinosaur version of Top Gear:

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12-07-12 | 02:44 AM

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I wish we had the euro LIM

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12-07-12 | 10:50 AM

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Look at 1:40 the fc has a older style dizzy and not a cas.

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12-08-12 | 07:50 PM

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great find!

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12-08-12 | 08:27 PM

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Look at 1:40 the fc has a older style dizzy and not a cas.

Perhaps a European thing? That is odd though.

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12-09-12 | 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by turbo_dave

Look at 1:40 the fc has a older style dizzy and not a cas.

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Perhaps a European thing? That is odd though.

Maybe the very first engines still had a distributor? Or maybe the car they "borrowed" to TopGear was a pre-production car?

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12-09-12 | 07:54 PM

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pre-production car?

That's what I was thinking, seems likely.
Mazda letting them put it on the show to get it some coverage before it went on sale?

~Kyle

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