Mazda didn't give up, however, and at the 14th attempt, in June 1991, the Mazda 787B, powered by a four-disc rotary engine, beat a stellar line-up of Mercedes, Jaguar, and Porsche, to claim the ...

The Mazda 787B is one of those cars ... Stroud didn’t have the luxury of a traditional, large, stiff engine to bolt to the back of the monocoque and mount the rear suspension to.

Normally, the Turn 10 sound engineers use Dyno Authority in a business and residential area of Seattle to record their cars' sounds, but when it came to the 1991 Mazda 787B that was unleashed in ...

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All of those can be contested to some degree – Nissan currently sells a Miller cycle Micra, Mitsubishi developed a 1.6-litre V6 back in ... and green 787B Le Mans racer. Mazda will turn its ...