I’VE always enjoyed attending the Tokyo Motor
Show. It’s a great chance for the Japanese brands to showcase their cars to a home audience – and there are two stands in particular I look forward to seeing.
I’ve long had a soft spot for Mazda and Subaru, two of the smaller Japanese makers who have both demonstrated a desire to do things on their own terms that has bordered on the maverick at times. Successfully, too, as it’s led to some great cars, like the MX-5 and Impreza Turbo of the mid-nineties.
At this year’s show, Mazda stole the headlines with the announcement of the return of the rotary engine in the RX-Vision concept (above). Yes, there are challenges to rotary power, not least making it more efficient, but speaking…
