A soul, perhaps. The Mazda 787B is one of those cars. The car that won the 1991 Le Mans 24 Hours as an unfancied underdog, the first Japanese car to do so and, as yet, the only rotary-engined winner.

and 13 failed attempts to win Le Mans. Mazda didn't give up, however, and at the 14th attempt, in June 1991, the Mazda 787B, powered by a four-disc rotary engine, beat a stellar line-up of ...

The Mazda Furai was a futuristic concept with motorsport ambitions, before it met its untimely demise during a Top Gear road test.

It’s nearly a week since Le Mans – long enough for the sunburn ... onboard footage of Johnny Herbert driving the mighty Mazda 787B around the circuit during his ‘demonstration run’ before ...

and decades ago was the racing engineer behind the 787B. That Group C prototype racer represented Mazda's last major effort at taking top honors at Le Mans, and take them it did when it won the ...

but when it came to the 1991 Mazda 787B that was unleashed in February's ALMS DLC, the Le Mans-winning racer was just too loud. In fact, the 700-horsepower 2.7-liter Wankel-engined legend with ...

The iconic Mazda 767B will return to Adelaide with Le Mans winner Stefan Johansson set to get behind the wheel.

when the 787B won the 24 Hours of Le Mans; no other Japanese team would claim the title until Toyota in 2018. Mazdaspeed wasn’t limited to racing; it also produced Mazda-approved performance ...

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Mazda has had some major successes to shout about in motorsport. Arguably none is more impressive than its victory at the 1991 Le Mans 24 Hours, when the four-rotor-engined 787B took the chequered ...

Mazda has joined in on the fun with its own Vision Gran Turismo called the LM55. Paying homage to the Japanese automaker’s success at the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Mazda LM55 is inspired by ...