faultyerwin

> Right. The lack of of a rotary Mazda on the market right now is really more of a success story for politicians and government regulation.

I've heard that many RX-8s didn't keep factory spec after relatively short period of usage. They require also quite often (every 30-40000 km) the change of apex seals.

> It’s somewhat tragic they don’t sell as well as they should. They are objectively better in many ways.

Mazda is basically loosing all comparisons tests in Europe. They do not beat competition with economy or performance. Build quality is also not the best. https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/vergleichstest/golf-octa...

> They have a new 'X-Active' gasoline engine that also runs like a diesel at times to gain efficiency and power

And in terms of performance and economy matches a "classical" solution nowadays (direct injection + turbo): https://goo.gl/YWZs6v, https://goo.gl/zckvun

> Somehow this small car company always punches above its weight, which is impressive.

Mazdas look a little bit differently but in terms of technology there is nothing impressive about them.