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08-11-2006, 03:49 PM
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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
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..
08-11-2006, 06:34 PM
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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.
08-11-2006, 10:19 PM
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FCs are decently fast little *******. 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
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
08-12-2006, 11:27 AM
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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?
08-12-2006, 01:42 PM
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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
08-13-2006, 06:21 PM
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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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