It won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with its banshee Mazda 787B prototype ... no pictures), Mazda's own vintage cars it restores for historical value and its old race cars it runs in events for ...

A quad-rotor R26B engine, essentially derived from the Le Mans-winning 787B ... valuable oddities in Mazda’s history. The few times these cars have shown up at vintage racing events or on ...

The Mazda 787B was the first Japanese car to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and remains the only rotary-powered car to win the legendary endurance race. The race-winning car has been mostly idle ...

The final iteration of Mazda's rotary-powered Group C prototypes, the 787B, had the most sophisticated intake system yet. After 1991, rotary-powered cars would no longer be allowed to run Le Mans ...

So, instead of going for outright speed, Mazda tuned the 787B's engine for reliability, so much so that it showed effectively no signs of wear following the 24-hour race. Mazda entered its ultra ...

The Mazda 787B is one of history's most legendary motorsport cars. The 787B is extremely important for the Japanese car culture and industry because it represents Japan's first Le Mans win.

The Mazda 787B may not have been the fastest prototype to participate in the 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans. In fact, it certainly wasn't, with a qualifying time 12 seconds slower than that of the pole ...

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.

Sounds too good to be true, and yet every part of it is. It’s the very real story of the Mazda 787B, and its one-in-a-million victory at Le Mans, in 1991. The 59th running of the 24 Hours of Le ...