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?

 

Probably go to a storage facility or they crush them

 

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

 

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

 

Can anyone post pics of that RX-01?

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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...

 

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

 

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