I want to buy one of these
Tell me why it's a great/terrible idea to do so
Mazda RX8
Joshua Cox
Charles Wright
Its slow. Really slow
Ryder Walker
The good:
There isn't anything that sounds quite like an angry rotary screaming away at redline
The gearbox and clutch are very forgiving. Not a hard car to drive.
Not terribly hard to wrench on
If you go catless, it loves to shoot fireballs
Responds very well to forced induction
The bad:
Stay on top of your maintenance, or you'll be sorry. Watch some vids on RX7/RX8 maintenance.
Beware of wet roads
Apex seal meme is true
Oil consumption meme is true
Cold start/stop/restart flooding meme is true
Carbon buildup if you don't redline it meme is true
Shit fuel economy meme is true
No low end torque
The ugly:
Rear quarter panel rust
Doritos everywhere
Be ready to take care of it if you get one, or you'll have a real money pit on your hands.
Grayson Butler
Its not.
Moron
Logan Sullivan
>Oil consumption meme is true
not in the slightest. its one of the biggest not right memes ever
the rx8 should never need to be topped off in between changes
>no low end torque
making over 80% of peak torque at 3000rpm... rotaries have god tier broad torque curves
>Responds very well to forced induction
the 13b-msp hates forced induction
Carson Turner
how is a mid 14 second quarter mile is "really slow"?
Evan Rodriguez
Its the fat ugly sister of RX7
Ethan Cook
>inb4 autist bench racing
Mentioning statistics like that is like opening a gate to Oblivion
Adam Stewart
>bench racing
it laps tsukuba in 1:01 with 270bhp na, tires brakes suspension slightly stripped etc
i dare someone to call it shit with benchr acing
Jonathan Butler
I don't disagree with you but for some reason they chimp out at the sight of times and derail it. As for OP as long as you can maintain it I say do it
Camden Russell
Fuck off retard.
Thomas Parker
I own an rx8
This man speaks truth
Christian Cox
Manual/late 6 speed automatic RX-8s: great
Four speed automatic RX-8s: terrible, slow, and unreliable.
Jaxson Garcia
>specific rotor from the 80s hates being tarboed
>ignoring all other flavors of doritoes
>oil consumption meme
maybe if you premix, its not a meme. otherwise, it is the biggest, memiest meme ever to dream of being a meme.
Daniel Flores
>specific rotor from the 80s hates being tarboed
13b-msp is the renesis
>oil consumption meme
its a fucking meme. any modern honda, bmw, audi, vw, fiat, subaru etc will drink waay more oil than an rx8.
like i said before, it should never need to be topped off between changes.
Levi Jones
it... it burns oil by design. look at the poll in the link related
>rx8club.com
Jace Thompson
Don't be an ignorant ass it burns more oil than the average car
Jaxon Williams
>it... it burns oil by design
and its insignificant amount. a rotary has oil change every 3k. no need to top off between changes at all
>largest group is 0.5-1 quart per 5k
>second largest group is less than half a quart
subaru states a quart every 1k is normal, bmw states a quart every 700 miles is reasonable...
the meme is not real
Carter Nelson
youre the ignorant ass
non rotary owners stop acting like you arent regurgitating conjecture kthnx
consumerreports.org
James Hill
You're an idiot.
It burns oil by design which means you have to add a bit of oil every once in a while.
No one is saying to top it off every 1,000 miles. It's not as severe as people make it out to be.
Blake King
eat my crabs
Caleb Perez
Great idea, get a compression test. Don't get one unless you know how to change your own oil and premix regularly.
Carter Nelson
Premixing is a dumb, unnecessary meme.
Henry Flores
pre-mix oil, unlike engine oil, is designed to burn.
Getting rid of the oil metering pump and mixing proper amounts of pre-mix oil into the fuel is very common among rotary owners. I recall they like to get rid of the washer fluid pump and use that reservoir for something else, forgot what it is though.
Jacob Brown
Most cars don't need oil changes but every 5k tho
Carter Ross
Not quite.
The only real downside of the early Renesis models is that they didn't inject enough oil.
Especially with the 04-05 models that just didn't put in enough, combined with white bitches and Daddy's girls getting the car and not knowing to actually change the oil, and the engines exploded.
For those models of the car, and also people whose oil metering pumps have failed, pre mixing is in fact the way to go.
Now for the 09 + models, they're basically bulletproof, but they're not as fun to drive so...
Also the only people here that's going to get one of these cars are going to be poorfag plebians with a 04 model exclusively, so this advice is pertinent
Ryder Reed
I don't think you know very much about sports cars