The car looks great! I just saw the specs and a picture gallery on a auto news site that showed some great pics of the future rx8 and now I know it will be my future car. I can't wait to get this car. Not only is it affordable but it now looks great and has great performance as well.
"Then recently I got my third Mazda: the RX-8. I’d picked the RX-8 as the best-handling car for Road & Track. The magazine did the 10 best cars for under whatever price, and that was my choice.
I thought it had the best gearbox. I thought it was the lightest on its feet. You had to work the engine to make it go – it didn’t have all kinds of torque – but it was a great deal of pleasure running it up to 9500rpm and just tapping the gearlever and it all seemed very linear. I just liked the way it felt.
The rotary motor fascinates me because it’s really the only new engine of the 20th century. Mazda perfected it and made it popular and I like the fact that the company sticks with it. It doesn’t have as good fuel consumption as the conventional internal combustion engine, but the reliability seems to be there. People say they burn oil but mine doesn’t. Putting half a pint of oil in every 1,000 miles doesn’t seem excessive to me. If you’re an enthusiast and you like your car, that doesn’t seem crazy.
I also like the design of Mazdas. I like the RX-8 because, whether you love it or hate it, at least it doesn’t look like any other car on the road. When I was a kid growing up in America you could tell by a rear tail light, by a rear quarter-panel or a front quarter-panel, whether you were looking at a Ford or a Chrysler or a Chevy. Everything was distinctive.
Nowadays there’s a line of cars from Buick and Chevrolet that all kind of look the same. The Lexus, the Infiniti, these cars kind of look the same. The RX-8 looks different and I like the original thinking. I like the rear quarter-door that opens. It looks like a two-door but it’s really a four-door. I like the haunches on the fenders. When I see one on the road I immediately identify it."
This is the car only because it's made in japan the u.a.w. Hate this import so they play on you and do not advertise it in our market media. Great car , every tom, dick and jane don't have one... Eat your heart out haters..
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Last edited by deadweight; 03-04-2009 at 04:37 AM.
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Eh, Ron, you may want to reread and reedit that post. It makes no sense as it stands.
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Hi, I'm prolly gonna get an RX-8 soon, just curious, I drive with alot of spirit, what kind of reliability should i expect?? Also, what does this kind of vehicle set up feel when pushed to the edge of traction, does it warn you before breaking loose and in a momentum only fed corner, does it understeer or oversteer first? Thanks guys.
Going to be? The 8 has been out since 2001 in show car form and available for sale in the US since 2004.
Either you've been living under a rock, or your primary goal here has something to do with the (illegal) link in youir sig. I'm guessing the later is the truer statement.
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Fighting natural selection one moron at a time....
"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary
dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." - Anais Nin
What the Rx-8 has to offer
