The sports car from the house of Mazda was powered by a naturally aspirated 5 FC series engine that produces power up to 119 kilo watts and the other engine offered by the vehicle was a turbo charged 5 series model that produces power up to 147 kilo watts. The RX 7 stood in ten best lists for five times and more than 811,634 were manufactured.
Engine
The naturally aspirated 5 series engine was featured with lighter rotors, better engine management and updated styling and also had the compression ratio of 9.7:1, where as the other model was a turbo charged model. The 1989 RX7 was also offered as a convertible model and was powered by 1.3 liter rotary engine that produces power up to 200 hp. The various trims offered by the vehicle include GTU, GXL, turbo, convertible, GTUS, and GXL 2+2 versions.
The standard engine to all the models is 1.3 liter rotary engine that produces power up to 160 hp and 140 lb ft torque and the same engine in the turbo model produces 200 hp of power and torque of 196 lb ft. The standard to all the engines was a five speed manual transmission with overdrive and also provided four speed automatic transmission with overdrive.