The 2015 Tokyo Motor Show is just around the corner, and even though the event will be packed with dozens of interesting concepts, all eyes are on Mazda’s new two-door sports car, — rumored to preview the next-generation RX-7. As if Mazda’s teaser depicting a hot looking coupe wasn’t interesting enough, the Japanese brand tuned it to confirm that the concept car, as well as the upcoming production model, will be powered by a new-generation rotary engine.

"People think rotary can not meet modern Eco demands. The SkyActiv engineers worked on rotary and have it cutting edge tech. It is an essential part of our DNA and it just be passed onto future engineers. It is synonymous with the brand. Some time in the future it will return and be called SkyActiv-R," Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Mazda’s head of research and development told Autocar.

The brand didn’t say whether this new sports car will mark the return of the RX nameplate, but CEO Masamichi Kogai described the new concept as a "pure sports car design," which hints toward the RX-7.

"We have MX-5 and another icon that is a rotary sports car. We haven’t talked about market reach but this would be in that segment," he said, adding that the concept "represents our dream, but we don’t want it to be a dream too long."

Keep it locked here for more details on Mazda’s new sports car concept, which is about to break cover at the 2015 Tokyo Motor Show in Japan.

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