2008 Mazda Furai

The Mazda Furai was a concept car revealed on December 27, 2007, and designed by Swift Engineering and manufactured by Mazda. A teaser image of the vehicle was released on December 11, 2007. The Furai officially debuted at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan. The Furai, meaning "sound of the wind", was the fifth and last of the Nagare line of concept cars that have been made by Mazda since 2006. The chassis was based on the Courage Compétition C65 Le Mans Prototype that Mazda last used to compete in the American Le Mans Series, two seasons previously and was designed to use E100 ethanol fuel, it was powered by a heavily modified 20B 3-rotor wankel engine that produces 336 kW; 456 PS (450 bhp). The engine was developed and built by renowned rotary tuner, Racing Beat, who also built the car's rotary-shaped muffler canister.