[QUOTE='87 Turbo II]yeah also you may say it "seems" like alot of people have problems with them. that's because you're on a web forum the only problems you hear about are from the rare people who have them that post questions on the site. The people with healthy cars don't post "still working just fine" every day so it seems like there are less good ones, when really people wouldn't post unless they have a problem, you get all sorts of problems with anything new that comes out. Like KYLiquid stated, less than 1% is great. We're not trying to make th e8 sound godly or convert you 1sty, but it seems you have a "rotaries suck" message burned so deep in your head, you refuse to hear anyone out. Many people give them a bad rep just because it's different.[/QUOTE]
right, bad news travels faster than good news.
I still meet people that ask my what kinda car I have "RX8 I say" an they ask if it has a Rotary (since im sure they rember the 'rx' tag...) and I tell them yes, and they state things like "has it caught on fire yet" or "What do you drive when its broken down" ect.............
Of the Millions of rotary powered cars mazda has made, im willing to bet that a ver slim number of them failed cause of the rotary motor alone. It might still be 80K motors or something, but thats still pretty good, esp for the 1st gen of rotarys when they had only been making rotary motors themselfs for a few years in testing.
Look at GM, they had been making piston engines for over 70 years when GM had nearly 1.1 Million motor started to fail in 1 model of car.....
any way, anything mass-produced has an expected failure rate. Looking back at american car companys in the 60's/70's they actualy designed their cars with a life expectancy.......so you would need to buy another car in the future.
I think I rember in my biz class that something like 3-5% failure rate is what most companys shoot for.
EDIT : you also have to look at each failure that happens and see just what happened. Was it a problem with the parts......or the way they were put together, or was the failure caused by something not forseen by the maker? Its hard to tell sometimes.
right, bad news travels faster than good news.
I still meet people that ask my what kinda car I have "RX8 I say" an they ask if it has a Rotary (since im sure they rember the 'rx' tag...) and I tell them yes, and they state things like "has it caught on fire yet" or "What do you drive when its broken down" ect.............
Of the Millions of rotary powered cars mazda has made, im willing to bet that a ver slim number of them failed cause of the rotary motor alone. It might still be 80K motors or something, but thats still pretty good, esp for the 1st gen of rotarys when they had only been making rotary motors themselfs for a few years in testing.
Look at GM, they had been making piston engines for over 70 years when GM had nearly 1.1 Million motor started to fail in 1 model of car.....
any way, anything mass-produced has an expected failure rate. Looking back at american car companys in the 60's/70's they actualy designed their cars with a life expectancy.......so you would need to buy another car in the future.
I think I rember in my biz class that something like 3-5% failure rate is what most companys shoot for.
EDIT : you also have to look at each failure that happens and see just what happened. Was it a problem with the parts......or the way they were put together, or was the failure caused by something not forseen by the maker? Its hard to tell sometimes.
