Mazda Ryuga

The Mazda Ryuga was a concept car introduced by Mazda and its partner Ford at the 2007 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Together with the Mazda Nagare shown in Los Angeles, it was an exploratory design study intended to illustrate future styling directions for Mazda passenger vehicles; the name is Japanese for gracious flow. Its body had two gull-wing doors and was significantly shorter and lower than the four-passenger RX-8 sports car, on 21-inch wheels placed at the far corners. Inside it seated four in a 2+2 layout with a floating centre cluster, rear-view cameras and an open-top steering wheel using steer-by-wire. It was powered by a 2.5-litre engine that ran on E85 or gasoline and drove the front wheels.