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Il RX8 lI 08-10-2006 10:46 PM

I thoroughly enjoy the hell out of mine. Fun to drive.

Black8 08-11-2006 03:01 PM

RX8 owners are whiney bitches....

amp 08-11-2006 03:49 PM


Originally Posted by RotaryVillain' post='832287' date='Aug 10 2006, 03:44 PM

I beat an rx8 driving my pos stock base model 2nd gen



Base model 2nd gen: $500

Pacesetter header w/ wrap : $160

Pacesetter exhaust: $150 used

Hks Intake: $150

Beating a car 20 years newer that cosed 30k: PRICELESS https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/boink.gif

beat it in what way... straight line..

thats hardly an indicator of what a car can do.. run your car at a local autox event and see how well your base fc does..

j9fd3s 08-11-2006 06:34 PM

we ran the rx8 with 2 people in it at sears point, coming out of turn 11 it was neck and neck with a factory 5 cobra all the way to the start finish line, thats as straight a line as there is at sears.... next lap it did the same with an older porsche 911.

QuackDamnYou 08-11-2006 10:19 PM

FCs are decently fast little fuckers. I would take an RX-8 over an RX-7 any day, but there's nothing like the FC. I hate the FD (Don't bash me, damn you). Power means nothing if it's not tractable. The Honda Fit Sport beat a Corvette Z06 through an Emergency Lane Change test, you know. It may only have 102hp, but it's all tractable. Get the point? Good. My GXL was stock and slow in a straight line, but heaven forbid you challenge me to something with turns..



Edit: Another example is something I saw on Top Gear today (Old episode). The Vauxhall Vectra with this big and powerfull engine beats a Mazdaspeed 6 in a straight line, but try and corner it and the understeer was so horrid I was laughing until it hurt. He was in a turn understeering completely straight because the chassis simply is horrible and it couldn't put the power down efficiently in any sense other than a straight line. (And still there was wheelspin that just went on, and on, and on...)



Case in point.



Stop complaining :-p

j9fd3s 08-12-2006 11:27 AM

yeah comparisons are funny, at the last 25 hour enduro the honda fit sport got beat by an 81 VW rabbit, and not by a little bit, the rabbit trounced it, 44 laps i think. which means the Z06 is one slow peice of crap, donnit?

Apex13B 08-12-2006 01:42 PM


Originally Posted by j9fd3s' post='832525' date='Aug 12 2006, 12:27 PM

yeah comparisons are funny, at the last 25 hour enduro the honda fit sport got beat by an 81 VW rabbit, and not by a little bit, the rabbit trounced it, 44 laps i think. which means the Z06 is one slow peice of crap, donnit?





yeah dude, i'd take a yugo over a z06 anyday they parallel park better

QuackDamnYou 08-12-2006 02:46 PM

Your sarcasm is vastly unimpressive.

j9fd3s 08-12-2006 03:19 PM

i invented marcus aurelius

NotalesS 08-13-2006 06:21 PM


Originally Posted by mazdaspeed7' post='832289' date='Aug 10 2006, 12:48 PM

But at the end of the day, he's still going home in a nice new car with a warranty.





Warrenty!!! BLAH!!!



We are warrenty.... just never look how much u saved up.....


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