Mazda Taiki Concept | Japan meets Batman
Last week, MazdaPedia gave you a sneak peek at the Taiki – a sports car concept which turned heads at both the Detroit and Tokyo Auto shows respectively. It is one of several “Nagare” design (meaning flow) concepts from the motor company.
However, this concept is not all automobile theory – the Taiki features “a next-generation rotary engine and enhanced aerodynamic performance.” Anything from air to wind to fog and rain will literally “flow” through the curves of this beast.
Taiki may look as if she has all her power in the front-end, but this newbie is a rear-wheel drive vehicle. It takes power from the bow’s 1.6L RENESIS 16X engine – the latest in Mazda’s RENESIS engine design.
These machines were built using the same ideas behind hydrogen rotary engines, except RENESIS is gasoline based as well as fuel efficient. Gas is injected at high pressure during intake, causing fuel to evaporate quickly. The fast air-fuel mixture stabilizes temperature in the chamber, raising the engine’s efficiency. It also gives any car wrapped around the 16X an increase in torque without the waste of emissions.
Translation – less gas and harmful emissions with more power and speed while blasting down the streets of Kobe, Japan.
To us, the Taiki is offspring of the Batmobile and Spinner from Blade Runner.
The canopy is wide opened, showing off the driver while the world around flashes by, easily missed at top speeds like tears in the rain. So don’t forget to stop at red lights; not for the threat of traffic violations, but for the purpose of gloating.
Taiki is so beautiful of a concept car it is almost worth not driving at all. Like a work of modern art, one should admire, pace around slowly, debate what the designers were feeling as they created. Of course, that would be no fun. You are forced by sheer attraction to touch, sit and accelerate the Taiki to its limits. One can only hope Mazda keeps Taiki’s grace and efficiency in the final model.
I want one of these to flow right into my driveway.
i want to have one
just ugly.