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English - Japanese  

"R" of RX-8 means the rotary engine. "X" means the symbol symbolizing the future. RX-8 was named after "to create a new genre of sports car as the car equipped with the new generation rotary engine RENESIS". The new generation rotary engine "RENESIS" is a mixture of the initials of Rotary-Engine and the English word "GENESIS". Genesis means like "the beginning or origin of something".