dj55b

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I was just thinking to myself the other day ... what do companies do with their functioning prototype cars? Like the rx-01, i know that BMW and mercedes also came up with a few cars. Does anyone know the where abouts of those cars now?

IanS

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Probably go to a storage facility or they crush them

dj55b

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so sad ... would of loved to get my hands on the rx-01 ... looked pretty sweet

thafox

i highly doubt they crush a million dollar project/prototype car lol...most likely they put it in a museum or somethin

RX7UP

Can anyone post pics of that RX-01?

Brianhsval

I would love to have the Vette that has a 4 rotored motor in it.

thafox

not that prototype i'd luv to see in person, i also wonder what they did with it

2wankel

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mortenf

Strange, but im kinda glad that they didnt build that thing..

mcnannay

some cues taken from it for the rx8 tough

most prototype cars are crushed, but i do remember seeing a post with pics from a museum in germany i think with a bunch of the old rotary prototypes including the mercedes four rotor ( i think it may be the one that felix wankel used to drive, or was that a bmw? ) Ill try to find it...

Brianhsval

An individual owned the vette with the 4 rotored motor. No idea where it is now. Maybe it too is in a museum.

Bern

Mazda keeps/stores a lot of their running prototype vehicles. Almost all the design mules and such, get scrapped though. Mazda has it's very own museum in Japan, that just got renovated... see here:

http://mazdanews.com/node/view/147

-Bern