At the Tokyo Motor Show, Mazda has finally breathed fresh life into those rumors, showing what such a car could look like draped in today's KODO design language – in a word: magnificent. The deep-red RX-Vision concept drips in automotive sensuality and hopefully proves more than just a fleeting vision.

While its shape looks a bit too conceptual to move through to production, for now the RX-Vison commands the room like an exotic flagship. Its stretched, curvy proportions send the mind racing into daydream after daydream about bringing that rotary to life and mashing the accelerator pedal.

If anything, Mazda's new concept is just a tad too long, its forever-hood a bit mismatched with the low, flung-back cabin. It feels almost like a pair of god-like hands pulled it by the spoiler and tip of the nose, stretching it into exaggerated two-door form.