Next-Gen Halo Mazda RX-9 Sports Car Gets Imagined Based on Nearly Forgotten Patent

Of course, we are talking about the one-and-only Mazda MX-5 Miata and the RX series of rotary-powered models. Just recently, the company introduced the world to the ND3 MX-5, and the 2024 model year brought with it some much-needed styling improvements and extra goodies.

For now, the 2024 MX-5 was officially revealed for Australia, where it's due in showrooms during the first quarter of 2024, and it will also premiere in front of the audience at the Japan Mobility Show (the former Tokyo Motor Show) at the end of the month alongside a slew of concepts and other models.

Curiously, the company has also teased a mysterious concept car pegged for a world premiere at the mobility event, and speculation is running rampant about the potential of Mazda premiering the next-gen Miata ahead of time, in prototype form or even an all-electric version of the MX-5. However, not everyone might think the same.

For example, the rumor mill's imaginative realm of digital car content creators would very much love to see the next-generation Mazda6 big sedan premiere at the venue with the RWD-biased platform that was just introduced alongside the CX-60 and CX-90 crossover SUV models.

Others, on the other hand, don't mind the MX-5 or the Mazda6, even if they still float around the same parallel universes of vehicular CGI. As such, the Halo oto channel on YouTube provides fresh automotive info corroborated with their virtual designs; now, there are some CGI ideas about a rumored Mazda sports car of the flagship RX variety.

Dubbed Mazda RX-9, this supercar vision is based on the patent filing from the summer of 2021 related to the structure of a sports car looking akin to the beloved RX-Vision Concept. However, the channel's resident pixel master has a couple of ideas for the potential Mazda RX-9 – one slightly more traditional, apparently based on a classic GT styling, and another that's more futuristic while also clearly biased towards becoming a mighty Toyota GR Supra and Nissan Z Nismo competitor.

Whatever you choose – the classically rendered Mazda with looks akin to a British grand tourer or the modern supercar with a rear inspired by the GR Supra, no one really knows if the company will ever put such a model into production. Remember, their first endeavor into the EV field, the small MX-30 subcompact CUV, was a failure – it was dropped out of the North American region after just three model years (2021 to 2023).

As such, no one can bet on their prospective return to the RX sports car field – especially since their rotary endeavors are also becoming an endangered species. However, a hypothetical Mazda RX-9 using the 3.3-liter e-Skyactiv G turbo inline-six mill and the plug-in hybrid option of the CX-90 would be more than adequate for a GR Supra and Z Nismo brawl, for sure. So, what do you think? Should Mazda revive the long-running RX series with inline-six MHEV and PHEV mills under the hood, or should they just stay put and focus on their sprawling crossover SUV endeavors?