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"While many concept cars are just rolling shells made to look pretty on automakers’ podiums, the Furai was designed from the get-go to perform, with a 458-horsepower 3-rotor Wankel engine amidships constructed by Mazda specialists Racing Beat. The chassis is constructed by Courage, and the overall mechanical package strongly resembles the Mazda/Courage ALMS cars. But the exterior resembles nothing else, on this world at least. The ultimate example of Mazda’s “Nagare” design language (“nagare” means “flow,” and “furai” means “the sound of the wind,” in Japanese), the Furai’s intakes, grille, and rear fascia are dominated by curving shapes, the nose draws out to a sharp point, and the teardrop-shaped cockpit is drawn back nearly to the rear of the car—the overall look is organic and mechanical at the same time. The fully functional racer (wearing the same #55 as the Le Mans-winning 787B) is capable of competition if Mazda chooses to race it, and would surely cause a sensation on the track."
—Official description[1]

The 2008 Mazda Furai is a concept supercar by Mazda.

It appears in Forza Motorsport 3 as part of the Jalopnik Car Pack and in Forza Motorsport 4.

Synopsis[]

The Furai, whose name means "sound of the wind", was the last of the Nagare line of concept cars made by Mazda from 2006. Unlike other Mazda concept cars, the Furai was fully functional and tested at various tracks, like Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

The Mazda Furai used a chassis based on the Courage Compétition C65 LMP race car last used by Mazda in the American Le Mans Series, two seasons previously. The Furai was also designed to make use of E100 ethanol fuel. It wore the number 55, the same as that of its 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans-winning ancestor, the Mazda 787B.

A mid-engined car, the Furai was powered by a heavily modified 2.0L 3-rotor rotary engine, named the R20B RENESIS 3 Rotor Engine, with 466 hp (347 kW) and 278 ft·lb (377 N·m) of torque. Power was sent to the rear wheels via a six-speed X-trac semi-automatic transmission.

The Furai had a weight of 1940 lb (880 kg), yielding a power-to-weight ratio of 530 hp (395 kW) per tonne.

Statistics[]

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Speed 6.2
Handling 8.4
Acceleration 8.7
Launch 7.7
Braking 8.4
R2 840
Required DLC:
Requires the Jalopnik Car Pack
Unlock Requirements
Car Dealer:
Purchase from the car dealer for 350,000 CR
Performance & Body Style
Body Style:
Prototype 2
Speed:
Top Speed: missing data
Acceleration:
0-60 mph (0-97 km/h): missing data
0-100 mph (0-161 km/h): missing data
Braking:
60-0 mph (97-0 km/h): missing data
100-0 mph (161-0 km/h): missing data
Lateral Gs:
60 mph (97 km/h): missing data
120 mph (193 km/h): missing data
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Speed 6.4
Handling 9.2
Acceleration 9.3
Launch 8.4
Braking 9.1
R2 865
Unlock Requirements
Car Dealer:
Purchase from the car dealer for 1,000,000 CR
Performance & Body Style
Body Style:
Supercar
Speed:
Top Speed: 175.8 mph  (282.9 km/h)
Acceleration:
0-60 mph (0-97 km/h): 3.100 secs.
0-100 mph (0-161 km/h): 6.000 secs.
Braking:
60-0 mph (97-0 km/h): 89.8 ft (27.4 m)
100-0 mph (161-0 km/h): 216.9 ft (66.1 m)
Lateral Gs:
60 mph (97 km/h): 1.34 g
120 mph (193 km/h): 1.83 g

Conversions[]

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Trivia[]

  • The Furai's engine can be swapped onto various Mazda RX-7 and RX-8 models in Forza Motorsport 4.
  • In September 2013, it was revealed that the Furai was incinerated because of a fire during road tests by Top Gear in 2008, 6 months after its reveal and a year before its inclusion in Forza Motorsport 3.[2]

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References[]

  1. "Forza Motorsport 4 - Cars" . forzamotorsport.net . Retrieved 01-29-2024.
  2. Furai destruction - "Losing the Mazda Furai - A Designer Reacts", Road & Track (archived)
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