RX-8 Facts.....very interesting....

[msp2fast]

no mazda is not the only company with problems but rotory is bad and is making mazda lose tons of money. Admit it, rx8 is bad. only people that relaly defend the bad rotory is the owners *surprise* *surprise*. You guys get bad gas milage with out the hp or torque. Give it up.

How are rotary's bad?The renesis has not even been worked to its full potential,and last time i checked mazda was making millions off of the rotary,and i get plenty of excuses everytime i woop one of this V8 guys who think theyre gonna rump all over my lil 1.3L "lawnmower engine"Bottom line is there's no other engine like it in the world!and sorry to all you haters but the RX7 is coming back!(glare)

 

[KYLiquid]

How are rotary's bad?The renesis has not even been worked to its full potential,and last time i checked mazda was making millions off of the rotary,and i get plenty of excuses everytime i woop one of this V8 guys who think theyre gonna rump all over my lil 1.3L "lawnmower engine"Bottom line is there's no other engine like it in the world!and sorry to all you haters but the RX7 is coming back!(glare)

rx7 coming back is a whole different story. If they do bring back a 2 door "coupe" rotary sports car......it MIGHT be called the RX7....

but dont bank on it, if it does come back, my guess is that they will keep it NA, MAYBE a 3 rotor...but I doubt it....definetly not turbo-charged....might be a supercharged 2 rotor.....or a higher power 2 rotor.....but they will get most of the performance from making it light weight.

Also, I see the chance of it coming to the US VERY, VERY slim. Emissions problems and the current view of the rotary make it unlikely.

 

[P5w3kids]

KY correctly notes that the vast majority of RX-8s don't have these problems. They aren't replacing every motor. They are inspecting every motor, and replacing those that require replacement. I think Mazda deserves to be applauded for being so proactive. Most automakers drag their feet and even then try to recall as few cars as possible.

I know. I had a Ford Contour V6 whose engine lost compression at 66,000 miles. Friend who works in Ford Powertrain did some research, found it was because of a catalyst issue. They had a recall for this issue. But my car was build after the cut-off date.

The engineers wanted to recall the entire model year. Management cut costs by only recalling cars built up to the time the problem was fixed. Problem was, as the engineers realized, the catalyst was assembled with the engine, and engines could sit around for weeks before being put into a car. So there was no way to judge engine build date from car build date with certainly.

End result: I got screwed. I much prefer Mazda's approach.

I also happen to love the RX-8. Got my father (68yo, other car a Lexus GS) to drive one, and he bought one. Rarely drives the Lexus anymore.

 

[P5w3kids]

Forgot to thank Old Rotor for an initially excellent thread.

 

[SilverBulletES]

Some of the facts one of the earlier posters thought they'd see in this thread:

- The RX-8 has two speeds: off and pwn.
- When the RX-8 drives it isn't moving forward -- it's moving the Earth backwards.
- Every mathematical inequality officially ends with < rx8
-The only thing Mr. T, Vin Diesel and Chuck Norris can agree on is a rx8.
-If the RX-8 had wings, it would fly.
-There's no I in team, there's one in renesis, f*&k you team
-RX-8's don't burn oil -- they convert it back into dinosaurs.
-The RX8 can be completely dismantled into fully functioning parts suchs as the center console becoming a second oven and the hand brake pulling out to be a sword.
-When an RX-8 hits another car it's not an accident -- it's an execution.
-You can fit 3 dead adults in the trunk so its really zoom 4 seven- 350z/s2k cant even come close to that.
-Even Chuck Norris believes that RX-8's, rather than children, are the future.
-The RX-8 doesn't take you from point A to point B -- it brings point B to you.
-They were going to make "RX-8" toilet paper but then they realized that the RX-8 doesn't take s*** from ANYONE!
-The Rx-8 can, and has, revved to infinity - twice.
-The RX-8 assassinated Kennedy from the grassy knoll.
-The cloth seats of an RX-8 are made of the softest material known to man: Baby Bunny Scrotum's.
-Mazda RX-8: A Swedish penis pump on wheels.
-The RX-8 rotors don't move, the universe itself rotates around the eccentric shaft. If the Renesis ran counterclockwise, time would run backwards.
-The makers of the 1968 Lincoln Continental invested heavily in fortune tellers so they could look into the future, see the RX-8, and steal its doors.
-If you play that rotor backwards it says "pistons can bite my left nut".
-All other cars look like the Rx-8...out of respect. The Crossfire failed to comply, which is why you never see them on the streets. The Rx-8 had no comment on the disappearance.
-Everytime an RX-8 has a shift beep, an angel gets its wings.
-A priest, a rabbi, and a duck walked into a bar. They saw the Rx-8 there, decided this was no joke, and found another bar.
-Music listens to the Rx-8. One time it didn't, that's how we got Musak.
-The Rx-8 tempts Satan.
-If the Rx-8 was a one legged man, the ass kicking contest would be no contest.
-The area between an atom's electrons and nucleus is known as the RX-8 turning radius.
-The sound of the renesis engine comming to life is the closest reproduction man has ever made of the first words ever spoken.....
-At 9000 RPM, the rotational velocity of the rotors shears the fabric of space/time and creates a small black hole. This is where the missing HP and gas mileage went.
-In 1972 a crack commando unit vehicle was sent to prison by a military court for a crime it didn't commit. This vehicle promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today still wanted by the government, it survives as a soldier of fortune. If you have a problem. If no one else can help, and if you can find it, maybe you can hire: THE RX8.
-The Rx-8 once cured a child of cancer. Once finding out the father drove a S2000 it uncured the child and killed the father. The Rx-8 is a cruel God.
-The RX8 is so cool, it doesn't return Spielberg's phone calls

Thank you brotha. This post is classic. (first)

 

[ZoomZoomH]

awesome post jenn, some of those are going into my sig

 

[jeffmsp]

flipandfunk is an idiot. rx8s are sweet. the motor has some problems, so what. you are not buying an economy car. lots of good sports cars have motors that are short lived. do you know how often skyline motors are rebuilt and they are seen as some of the best engine out there. even if the renesis only last you 80,000KMs, that not bad for a 1.3l lightweight motor sining at high rpms all day. I would rather have that then some heavy ass iron blocked 4 cyl turbo that would ruin the handling.

dont hate just becuase you cant even afford to have fun. RX8 is a great car, great handling decent power and with a few aftermarket goodies (turbokit mainly) it really leaves alot of better more expensive cars in the dust.

 

[ms64meplease]

i love the motor the rx-8 isnt my choice of them i wouldnt say its a pile of crap i wouldnt buy it because of the problems with the motor in genral i have owned my sare of motors in the rx-7 i had..

the turbo on them is night and day difference but doing this requires alot of money and time not to mention the life of the motor. but i have seen 1st gens personally with 300k mi. on the motor no rebuild nothing that maybe rare but i have seen it and it was still purrin like a kitten.

i will say mazda scammed people into the car at 1st by saying it had so much hp and it really didnt have even close to the numbers that was a bad deal.

and people saying there fast for the money is kinda ignorant as well srt-4 way cheaper and will smoke the thing, cobalt ss/ redline will also beat it and is cheaper. its a different class of a car its a rx-8 people not just a toy but a machine that looks great in my opinion would i buy one no i havent changed my mind nor dont intend too.

another thing that irritates me on forums is people saying who can and cant afford a car... pisses me off man you people that do this are ackting like five year olds you or i have no idea how much that guy makes. i know this is a old post so i hope someof you read what i said. are some of you that childish that you have to call a guy an idiot on here just wondering?

its really sad when people of your ages assuming your adults ridicule people for voicing there opinion if you dont have nothing nice to say dont say anything makes it easy then they dont say anyting back

 

[GordonJ]

If it's so bad than why has it been in the "Best 10 cars in the World" for the past several years now?

If all you care about is speed, then you probably shouldn't be driving a Mazda anyway. Just go tie a brick to your beater's accelerator and have some fun. Just don't try and actually DRIVE the thing.

 

[KYLiquid]

If it's so bad than why has it been in the "Best 10 cars in the World" for the past several years now?

If all you care about is speed, then you probably shouldn't be driving a Mazda anyway. Just go tie a brick to your beater's accelerator and have some fun. Just don't try and actually DRIVE the thing.

the renesis was also motor of the year 2 twice.

although both those awards are for different things than long term reliability, ect.

 

[ZoomZoomH]

44300 on the clock, warranty about to expire! wheeeee!

 

[RCThrine]

Im unimformed~

What are the problems with the renesis? Apparently I missed the briefing, granted i dont own an Rx8 or 7 for that matter, so theres no reason i should know. But I unlike most piston owners, have always dreamed of an RX-_. 7's 8's 2 different forms of beauty. So can some1 fill me in as to what the major issues of the Renesis are? The only thing i ever remembered reading was that there was a loss of hp, from the first production run with the estimated 250 horse to an actual 238, and for that they were accepting returns. An AMAZING show of faith since if everyone returned their 8s Mazda would have been humped. No other manufacturer would have risked it. They simply would have made some BS about how dynos cant properly measure crank horsepower on an eccentric shaft or some nonsense. So mazda gets my kudos there.(enguard)

 

[clicknext]

That was really interesting.

But I have to admit I was waiting for something like this:
FACTS
1. RX-8s are mammals.
2. RX-8s fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the RX-8 is to flip out and kill people.

I take it you've seen the Ninja page.