Mazda HB Cosmo

Mazda HB Cosmo
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Production	1981-1989
Class	Sports Car
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Transmission	4-Speed Automatic RWD
Engine	13B RE-SI
Power	160 HP
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The Mazda HB Cosmo was a luxury coupe and hardtop version of the 1981 Mazda Luce sedan, and was powered by a range of rotary engines. After the Luce was updated to the HC platform in 1986 the hardtop Cosmo was dropped, but the Cosmo coupe continued on with the HB platform until 1989.

Neither the Cosmo coupe, or the Luce sedan that it was based on were imported to the United States because of the American dislike for rotary engines. However, the piston-engined version of the Luce, the Mazda 929, was imported and sold starting in 1988.

This generation of the Cosmo came with three different rotary engines, the 12A-SPI, the 12A-Turbo, and the 13B RE-SI.

Shortly, in 1982 after the introduction of the 12A-Turbo rotary engine for the Mazda HB Cosmo, it became the fastest Japanese production car. Mazda soon lost this title to the Nissan Skyline, which compelled them to put the 12A-Turbo in the series III RX-7. This made the RX-7 much more attractive as a sports car and caused the attention to shift away from the Cosmo.

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