Mazda Taiki Concept (Video+Pics)

What is it?
Mazda Taiki Concept

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What's special about it?
That the Mazda Taiki concept car is only half as weird as many of the other concepts at the Tokyo auto show gives you some sense of how profoundly strange this show can be. After all, this is a vehicle that Mazda says was inspired by koinobori, which translates as "climbing carp streamers." Ford's Japanese subsidiary says it "reflects one possible direction for a future generation of Mazda sports cars aimed at helping create a sustainable society."

The fourth and latest iteration in the company's ongoing Nagare design series, the Taiki borrows its name from the Japanese word for "atmosphere." The design intent has been to create the visual impression of air flowing through a tube. (And here we had interpreted it as giving the impression of climbing carp streamers; shows what we know.)

The two-seater concept is a stretched coupe on a front-engine, rear-drive chassis configuration, with short overhangs and an all-glass canopy. Power is supplied by a next-generation rotary engine. Mazda, the only automaker to use a rotary engine, is adamant about keeping it alive, with future iterations that get better fuel economy. The company has also shown hydrogen-fueled rotary motors.

What's Edmunds' take?
As if the "carp streamers" theme weren't enough to pique your Western curiosity, Mazda also claims the Taiki's design was inspired by hagorom — "the flowing robes that enable a celestial maiden to fly in Japanese legend."

 

the front reminds me of a whale

 

wow... i would never consider buying something that ugly.

 

lol why do they have to make cars look so ugly in concepts

 

What is it?

It's ugly as a pile of poo with wheels thats what I think it is.:googly:

 

Wow......ummm...i dont know what to say that already hasn't been said.

I'm gonna post this in the Mazda6 forum and see what they say

 

It looks like the gay batmobile.

 

BADASS Wheelies w/ Rotory!!!

Im Sorry, but It Reminds me of a Really Huge Inverted VULVA from the Rear... :googly:


Yes, Im Gettin Turned On... :roflmao:

 

lol ew. Someone hide the exhaust pipe before clutch busts out the Vaseline.