Mazda sharpens up with cool coupé

Japanese giant Mazda has revealed its vision of future car design - and it looks like the firm's got 2020 vision!

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Nagare is shape of things to come from Mazda

12th December 2006

Bosses say they expect this RX-8-style coupé will be in production by the end of the next decade, and according to the firm's new design director Laurens van den Acker, it sums up the path its styling experts are taking, too.

Powered by a rotary engine that runs on hydrogen and featuring a dramatic four-seat interior, the Nagare (pronounced na-ga-reh) follows in the wheeltracks of the firm's Sassou, Senku and Kabura concepts. The name Nagare means 'flow' in Japanese, and has been chosen to describe the car's sleek bodywork. Van den Acker says the concept was drawn and built to display gentle curving bodywork that captures light and shadow.

Auto Express first revealed Mazda's plans to show the stunning concept in Issue 937, when we revealed a teaser drawing, released by the firm's styling department.

"Nagare is a celebration of proportions and surface language that will evolve into new designs planned for future motor shows," said van den Acker. "It examines light and dark, and reveals the design cues for the next generation of Mazda cars."