Product Description

- The Savanna is a mid-sized car (for the Japanese market) exclusively powered by a rotary engine (RE) that was released by Mazda (known as Toyo Kogyo at the time) in 1971.
- The name Savanna was not used overseas, and the car was given the name RX-3.
- Instead of the up and down movement of cylindrical pistons in a conventional reciprocating engine, the RE gained power from the rotational movement of an irregularly shaped piston called a rice ball-shaped rotor, and at the time it was synonymous with Mazda's advanced technology.
- The RE was compact and easy to produce power from, and the Savanna was highly regarded as a base car for competition vehicles.
- Symbolizing this is the fact that the Savanna undermined the stronghold of the Skyline GT-R, which had been invincible in Japanese touring car races from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, and eventually replaced it in 1972 (the GT-R withdrew from the race).
- Due to this image, it became popular for ordinary Savanna owners to customize their own cars to look like race cars. However, at the time, the works over fenders that race cars were equipped with to accommodate the wider tires were illegal, and so the cars also had an outlaw vibe.
- It is finished in a color scheme based on the Liberty Walk vehicles, which have been customized to look like the cars of Yoshimi Katayama, a well-known Hot Wheels RE user.


Item Size/Weight : 16.5 x 13.4 x 4 cm / 71g

• *[ Regarding the product image ] The image may differ to the actual product.

Product Specifications

Item series

Hot Wheels

Car Manufacturer

Mazda

Item code

HRV84-9866

JAN code

0194735186600

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