What car is it - rotary, possibly isuzu?

[bogan bob]

When in Melboune a couple of weeks ago, i was stumbling off to the local woolies to purchase some hang over-solving farmers unions iced coffee and balfours pies, when i spotted a car that i had never seen before.

bear with me.......

I think it was a coupe, with late 80's to early 90's styling. It was possibly an Isuzu, but theres a chance it wasnt.

the thing that got me was it was definately a rotary but wasnt a mazda.

I meant to go back and get some photos of it, but forgot.

has anyone got any ideas? I thought i knew my cars, but this one had me totally stumped. And now its really annoying me because i cant work out what it is. Oh and google has not been much help.

 

[ygoslo]

Cosmo?

 

[ygoslo]

Piazza?

 

[Guest]

i would have said eunos cosmo too, but people seem to chuck rotisseries in anything these days.

 

[Kristian]

NSU Ro80??

 

[Guest]

NSU Ro80??

go away with your silly import knowledge

*googles*
edit.. eww, thats horrible.

what about a mazda roadpacer, or a 13b bus?

 

[Guest]

A Kombi?

 

[Guest]

Cosmo?

Yea there was one like this driving through Windsor the other day, a nodd red coloured one. What is it?

 

[Kristian]

Eunos Cosmo - they came with a triple-rotor engine twin turbo. Go like a jet and nearly use the same amount of fuel as one too. That was the other car (aside from the Galant) that I brought back with me from Japan as a personal import.

 

[bradc]

Mmmmmm Cosmo!

 

[Guest]

So how would a Eunos Cosmo go in a drag with a VR4?

 

[Scottie]

They are lighter and have only RWD, they would own. There was a guy who turned up to a Datto meet in one that had 300RWKW with minor mods...

 

[Guest]

Oh I see

http://cp_www.tripod.com/rotary/pg09.htm

 

[bogan bob]

All reasonable ideas, ive seen many a cosmo, it wasnt one of them. Nor was it a NSU, roadpacer or a kombi (i know what the later 2 are)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/PIAZZA.jpg

It did kind of look like a piazza, but i remember it was a factory rotary, thats the part that really stuck in my mind.

 

[bradc]

Sure it was a factory rotary? Any idea on the brand?

 

[bogan bob]

it said rotary on the c pillar, which surprised me. It remember thinking it had to be a personal import as it was a brand that wasnt really sold here or sold in big numbers (such as isuzu)

 

[bradc]

You must have been close enough to see it's badge then

 

[Kristian]

So how would a Eunos Cosmo go in a drag with a VR4?

It'd wipe the floor with it

Given that the only two companies that made rotaries in significant numbers were Mazda and NSU, that narrows your options down a fair bit. It may well have been an earlier model Cosmo, like an HB model. Isuzu never made a rotary engined car.

 

[ygoslo]

Could it have been a kit car?

 

[happymatch]

i saw cosmo at strathfield NSW, entering sandalwood apartments about 10 days ago. it was dark blue and i first thought "huh?" i see. it is not to be played with..