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I had a '90 FC. Great car, I loved it! Perfectly maintained, but it blew apex seals at 105k miles (suprising NO one in the rotary community). It also never got better than 22mpg on the highway and averaged ~18 over my ~85%/15% hwy/city commute.
I still think the rotary is very cool, and it would be neat for Mazda to bring it back, but it would be a dumb move. I would rather they developed a compact high-revving ~2.5 liter V4 and built a serious and fast lightweight sports car (MX-7?) around that instead of rehashing the inherently inefficient and problematic rotary.
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