Mazda Road Pacer AP

When Mazda Roadpacer it was an upscale sedan that was sold by the Japanese car manufacturer Mazda from 1975 to 1979 only in Japan.

The Roadpacer based on the model of the Premier Australian GM Holden brand.

Loose motor, otherwise complete Premier models were shipped to Japan where Mazda installed the in-house Wankel engine of the type 13B with 1.3 liters chamber volume.

Although this made ​​135 hp and had a maximum torque of 138 Nm, he did a rather difficult time in well 1575 kg heavy Roadpacer. After all, the engine was more powerful than the reciprocating engines used by Holden; however the Roadpacer only reached a peak of 166 km / h and the acceleration was sluggish consumption horrendous: then reviews claim values ​​around 26 liters per 100 kilometers. Once gathered momentum, the Roadpacer but spoiled by smoothness and relaxed gliding.

Even the Holden Premier was extensively equipped, in the Mazda version was certainly a lot more standard equipment on board, such as central locking, which automatically locked all the doors at a speed of 10 km / h, a warning gong when ( in Japan allowed ) 90 km / h passed, a voice recorder and a stereo radio, which could be also operate from the rear.

The price amounted in 1975 to 3.8 million yen (then about 40,000 DM); a Mazda 929 cost about half.

Build and Price have already indicated that the Roadpacer was primarily intended for high government officials and business leaders, and thus competed with the top models of the other big Japanese car companies, the Toyota Century, Nissan President and Mitsubishi Debonair.

Due to the model introduced in the wake of the oil crisis in 1973/74, the Roadpacer sold poorly; until the end of production in 1979 Mazda sold only 799 copies (1975: 399; 1976: 240; 1977: 119; 1978: 36 and 1979: 5 pieces ).