One of my good friends just recently purchased one of these RX8's. And just by looking at the body and interior. It's really a nice vehicle. Nothing looks cheap on it, everything was designed just perfect for it and with quality piece of materials. So then after 2 of my friends got to drive it. He told me to. So willingly I did!

Once I sat down I looked at the instrument panel and noticed NO speedometer needle. Just a giant 10,000 rpm tachometer with a LCD display with numbers for your speed. Then 2 little gauges off to the left and right of the tach/speedo for your gas and water temp. The e-brake handle had a distinct look to it, very different from most sport cars I've been in and seen! Comes facotry with a short throw shifter so shifting is more exciting.

Driving this car was a blast besides the fact I'm not all that great driving a car with stick. The gates on the 6 speed are REALLY close, very good if your an experienced driver with manual transmissions. There is no torque what so ever on these rotorary engines but they have TONS of giddy up! After driving it around and attempting to double clutch it(which i did nail it!), it's a great handling car. Very little body roll when taking sharp turns or when noticable doing U-Turns. Has a very nice tuned suspension already. The sound of this car was very awesome too, not your average rice rocket sound.

I really liked the car after driving it for a good 30 mins and only giving it SOME gas and foot into it. If anyone has a thrill for sport cars like this I would recomend test driving one of these. VERY nice cars!

-Anduh

But its a rotary.......Blew mine up at 8000 rpm. Rotarys are probably a superior design but when anything goes wrong the whole thing is scrap metal... A $2.00 retainer for a rotor seal can fail and take out everything. And I mean everything. Check on pricing for the replacement motor... oh my. But they are fun cars to drive. :?

Yeah the rotary engine is a design that tried to make it into big production but....ya know they do eat oil and leak it pretty bad down the road. I have heard god thigns about those motors tho. Good solid and strong, can beat them at 7 grand for over an hour and not over heat nor smoke....But they sure can handle tho...my god lol.

-Anduh

I think some guy named Wankel developed the the rotary engine after stealing Ron Popiels Veg-O-Matic design...they broke too!

Nice looking cars, but eh, it's a rotary... that's the only problem. Expensive if you do have problems and inefficient at low revs, have to rev the heck out of it to get any power.

Think you've been watching too much Fast and Furious too... :P Double clutching is a much mis-interpreted term. What you were probably doing was heel and toeing it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heel-and-toe There's little if any need to double clutch with cars today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_clutch

Well....power shifted double clutched...No i rarely watch 2F2F......I just held the gas down a little while i put the clutch in, so my RPMS went up and so when i went into the next gear my rpms would be up a little......I dunno thats the term i know....and what we call it around here. I'll take a look at those links later on. :P I think the rotary is a neat engine...lacks torque but if you were to add a turbo it would help with the lack of power through out the RPMS.

-Anduh

Well....power shifted double clutched...No i rarely watch 2F2F......I just held the gas down a little while i put the clutch in, so my RPMS went up and so when i went into the next gear my rpms would be up a little......I dunno thats the term i know....and what we call it around here. I'll take a look at those links later on. :P I think the rotary is a neat engine...lacks torque but if you were to add a turbo it would help with the lack of power through out the RPMS.

-Anduh
I almost hate to go there again but.. Turbos dont give much low end torque due to lag and low rpm. They are great once spooled up. If you need proof: go find a turbo and hit the gas from idle. Then try it at 3000 rpm when its got boost. Quite a launch difference. If you put a turbo on a rotary its not going to last long. I am not going to even start in with shift boost spiking problems or heat issues. But I can say that its the smoothest power I have seen.

Ya i know that a turbo wouldnt be great for low end. Ive read that discussion and just know from my schooling about turbo lag and everything involved. Yeah.....lets not go there.

-Anduh

last time i checked this wasnt the riceburner forums :P i go to ecc to get away from topics like this 8)

I dont see how its a rice burner forum. Explain to me how its about rice burners besides the fact its a Mazda RX8. I was posting this topic as a review and something u would see in a Car and Driver. Saying my 2 cents about this pareticular vehicle. Not trying to say this in a rude way. But if it's not what you like to read. Then simply don't read it.

-Anduh

But if it's not what you like to read. Then simply don't read it.

-AnduhYour post about a Mazda doesn't bother me at all....but think about this...how would someone know if they like or dislike something unless they read it? I dislike STOP signs too but I'm forced to read those. I hate tests, but I'm forced to read those too in order to get a passing grade and get the hell outta the class. Did you like reading your tax forms...I didn't. We're forced to live with many things in life we dislike.........in reality, life is not like a bowl full of cherries...more like life in a Mazda filled with dog mung! Sorry, just trying to give a philosophical view about ricers. :lol:

Ok guys dont be mad at Snaggle Tooth because the domestic cars being poduced today can't hang with the imported goods on the road unless they are priced upward of 65 thousand dollars. :P
Ford Chevy And Dodge are failing on their sports cars. The only thing worth having now is a Corvette Ford GT or a Viper. I hate ricers as much as any other person on this fourm, but when a good non riced import car comes around give it some credit. As for the ricers we see every day on the road you know the ones with a 12ft wing hanging off the back of their car and jacked up body kits give em' hell let em hear what the Good Ol' USA produced back in the day and show them what a 20 30 40 50 year old car can do.

:-) That's right! You tell em JRSoct24! :-)

My Rx ran super and I loved it. Never had a mechanical issue. Besides, one will almost fit in the back of the Elky as a spare.

I like my Elky, but it hardly resembles new Detroit iron. In an effort to buy domestic, we bought a Mercury Mountaineer for my wife (she liked it). $36,500 and the #4 rod broke at 27,000 miles. Dealer and corp support were nightmares. Never, never again will my name be on a Ford title unless Carl Shelby shows up at my front door with one of his customs.

Yea, yea, I know what site I'm on and you can try to convince me of the superiority of current GM if you wish. Good luck. If they don't make a decent Camaro, they may not have another chance with me either. :-P

Take care

Sorry 66 Elky your still reseambling my post as a Rice Burner Topic and Forum. Last time I checked this was the General BS Topics Forum. For the most random bull shizz to be posted.

Thanks JRSoct24 and Bowtie. And it's not like I'm going to become some type of import guy becuase I drove one of my friends cars. Yes very beautiful car.

My Belief is that to be a car enthusiest is to be open to your horizon's on cars. Not just power and muscle cars. Have a different perspective on cars not just for power and looks. But the handling characteristics and engineering that goes into particular vehicles. I am done I have been upsetted with being acused of bringing rice burners forums. It was just a simple REVIEW OF A FREAKING CAR!

-Anduh

Who is Carl Shelby.... Carroll Shelby?
I gotta correct you on the typo since hes a ledgend. :)

If my name was Carroll I'd change it to Carl. There! :P
Thanks. Correct me anytime.

Take care

And it's not like I'm going to become some type of import guy becuase I drove one of my friends cars.
-Anduh Oh oh...sounds like something a closest wannabe Mazda owner would say. Just kidding...or am I? :wink:

And it's not like I'm going to become some type of import guy becuase I drove one of my friends cars.
-Anduh Oh oh...sounds like something a closest wannabe Mazda owner would say. Just kidding...or am I? :wink:

I wouldnt mind taking payments on one of them. Call me a wannabe or w/e u wish. But I would get one if I had the access to that amount of cash! Nice handling cars.

Yeah c'mon if u were Carroll Shelby I would want to be called Carroll. Its better than that one singer Ashley Parker Angel! And thats a guy btw too lol

-Anduh

Have the haters of the bunch here ever driven some of these "foreign riceburners" you're trying to pick on? I had a '93 Ford Probe (Mazda MX6 clone), and that thing handled like it was on rails and had plenty of power to spare. It wasn't even the GT performance model and it was still a blast to drive. My brother owns mine now and it's still going to this day with 250k+ on the original engine, drives as good as ever. Sure, there's something to be said for my 350 powered, 8 mpg 14 second El Camino... But there are plenty of twisty roads here in Alaska my El sure doesn't carve them up like that Probe can. For the price I paid for that car, $2000, and the fuel efficiency it got for the performance return it gave in power and handling that was one heck of a car. Mazda builds nice sports cars.

I dont see any haters. Just people expressing opinions. If you look back and read my "hater" post you will see that I OWNED one!

If my name was Carroll I'd change it to Carl. There! :P
Thanks. Correct me anytime.

Take care
:) How about Steve Saleen? I like the Saleen better, but I gotta give respect to Shelby...

its just that riceburners is the "cool guy" thing to do its just a stupid trend i hate being around them i hate talking about them i hate hearing them i would drive a lawnmover with a chevy emblem on it bfore i drove a honda

its just that riceburners is the "cool guy" thing to do its just a stupid trend i hate being around them i hate talking about them i hate hearing them i would drive a lawnmover with a chevy emblem on it bfore i drove a honda

Heh...Ok I take it back.. some of the posts are from haters ;)
I had at least 20 tuners (50 or so kids) pull up to my house a week ago last Friday night around 11:00 when I was out working in the shop. They asked me if they could see my motor... I had to laugh, but I did start it up for them with the pipes open...

Blower motor 10 grand
Looks on ricers face when they are in a shop with a running blown motor with open exhaust.. PRICELESS!
:lol:

The thing that bugs me is that crappy bolt on tail muffler they all seem to like so much. They sound like lawnmowers.

Lets not all get excited about imports vs domestic cars, imports are here to stay, driving one does not a ricer make. Im not exactly sure what defines a ricer but I think it has something to do with the ' fart can exhaust' and stickers and different color plastic bumpers. My 70 elcamino is my hobby. If chevy built one today that even came close to competing with any import,like fuel mileage dependability etc. I would have one . My daily driver is not one but two hondas, 04 accord V6, and an 06 civic Si which is car of the year! When was the last time chevy had one of them? Dont get me wrong , I am and always have been a die hard chevy fan but in this day and time ,sorry to say, smart americans buy imported cars. I said good day!

I dont think any "domestic" car is actually 100% built in the USA anymore anyway :)

I dont understand 66 Elky's concept of this turning into a ricer burner forum when its a completely stock factory roll of vehicle. YES there are some haters on here...JamesF is not one of them. He knows whats up. lol

-Anduh

YES there are some haters on here...JamesF is not one of them. He knows whats up.


Yep, I wasn't pointing my finger at anyone specifically really... Just seemed this thread and some others I've seen lately on this board seem to be filled with hate towards anything foreign. Not just ricer hate, but overall hate for anything that may have not been made by Chevrolet and newer than 20 years.

i just lost a whole lot of respect for a lot of you smart americans buy imported cars geez -.-

8) There may be something out there now but the last 100 percent American built car I can remember was the first generation Honda Civic! :lol: That fact became quite a joke for a while. :)

I want this topic deleted cause some people cant JUST READ A FREAKING TOPIC and just acknowledge THE POST. If you have this stubborn attitude towards everything. And THEN say "I just lost a whole lot of respect for a lot you smart americans buy imported cars" Makes me feel like your calling us Un-American. Is that what this is gonna come down to? Your trying to call us Un-American for buying a foreign piece of material that was NOT fabricated or made here in the good ol' USA? You freaking sicken me. Your ONE sick person trying to call us Un-American. Im dont ONCE again.

-Anduh

japaneese cars are overpriced they are cheaply made they are slow and they look REALLY stupid they are just Huge piles of crap they got nothing going for them the only reason people buy them is just to have the "cool guy" car and you know it. my el camino shure it takes more gas but its cheap to fix insurance isnt bad i dont have to do car payments and parts are cheap and common. those cars will be comepletly worthless over time is saving a couple of bucks at the pump really worth looking like a pansy when you drive? tell me that

Ok ya...you got me....its cause i want to be a cool guy....Sorry i just gave in....didn't know when to break out....It's cause I just wanna be SOOOO COOOLL!!! Im a grown kid I could give a damn about how cool I look in a domestic of foreign vehicle. Get over that factor....Cause its not the reason why people buy those vehicles. Parts and Insurance can by pricey but w/e man you win Im tired of arguing with you.

-Anduh

well its true though you know since your around the same age as me that everyone is doing this. its so ridiculous at the automotive shop at the college everyone has there ricers with huge wings lots of stickers and fart cannons they wont shut up about turbos and they all hate v8 cars. i just do see how these cars are cool in any way

Expensive pieces of crap? I like reliable vehicles... I paid a grand total of $1000 for my '93 Nissan 4x4 and it's taken 6 hard years of abuse and never whimpered. I drive 700 miles a week, add that up. Nissan = 20 mpg, El Camino = 8 mpg... Hmmmmm, ya, don't even need to add that up with gas at $3.00 a gallon the choice is completely clear. Sure it doesn't do 14 seconds in the quarter and it doesn't have a rumble that turns heads or looks to match. But what the hell do I care about any of that when I'm trying to something mundane like get to and from work?

well you drive an imported car for the right reason to save gas and get around these people try to make race cars out of these damn things and there is a difference between buying a brand new 20k + riceburner and a 1,000 dollar nissan... im shure your not gonna go out and rice the sob like some of these other idiots out there