Mazda Furai

The Mazda Furai was a concept car revealed on December 27, 2007, designed by Swift Engineering and manufactured by Mazda. It debuted at the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The name means sound of the wind, and it was the fifth and last of the Nagare line of concept cars Mazda has made since 2006. Its chassis was based on the Courage Competition C65 Le Mans Prototype, and it was built to run on E100 ethanol, powered by a heavily modified three-rotor 20B Wankel engine producing about 450 horsepower. Unlike many concept cars it was fully functional and ran at Laguna Seca and Buttonwillow. The car was destroyed by fire during a photography session at Bentwaters Parks on August 19, 2008, a fact made public in 2013.