Mazda Cosmo

The Mazda Cosmo Sport 110S was built from 1967 to 1972. He was the first production car with a twin-disc rotary engine with 110 hp, from 1968 with 128 horsepower from 1.0 liters chamber volume. The car was built in 1519 times.

It was a two-seat coupe, which was built in 1968 with a longer wheelbase.

The Cosmo project was launched in December 1962 by Mazda. Mazda introduced the first Zweischeibenmotorprotoyp in July completed in 1963. The first mobile prototype of the Cosmo Sport was completed in August 1963. This was in October 1963 at the Tokyo Motor Show, presented under the title "Project L402A ". The prototype engine L8A ³ had a chamber volume of 2 x 398 cm. When L8A you sat still a combined side and Umfangseinlässe. The L8A were developed for L10A and the chamber volume increased to 2 x 491 cc. The Umfangseinlässe represented and were replaced by two additional side inlets in the front and end portion of the motor. This improved torque and drivability at low speeds. The L10A had an engine output of 110 hp (81 kW). In April 1966, Mazda introduced 80 pre-production Cosmo Sport ago, it gave you 60 pieces to dealers in Japan for field testing from. From the first production version L10A (30 May 1967 to July 1968 ), 343 pieces were manufactured. The second series version L10B (13 July 1968 to September 1972 ) was built in 1176 times. The L10B had the same chamber volume as the L10A, through changes to tax periods had increased the power of the engine to 128 hp ( 94 kW). Total 1519 production cars (about 1599 counting with pre-production ) of the type Cosmo Sport were produced. The Cosmo Sport was sold only in Japan.

Under the type designation Cosmo to 1995 different successor models were produced.