Ok guys, you should be fed up by now by these "in depth" coverage, so this one is less wide that the previous ones, but at leat I had some material to start the new section of my website as it should!
So, we got an RX8 this morning. It's the 231 hp version and although in some pics it could seem black, it was a deep metallic green. Interesting.
What about the car... well, it's fine, it seems well built, typical japanese quality, nice looking. Inside it is roomy, the front seats are not enough supportive, especially for small persons like me. Also too soft maybe, but pretty comfy if you won't push the car too hard. The backseats as seen in many reviews, can accomodate a couple of adults for medium range travel in a decent way.
On the road, the ride good. Suspensions are firm, but not too much, it corners pretty well and is very stable. If pushed to the limit, it is the front that wash wide while the back seems impossible to upset if not with left foot braking. That's not a bad thing afterall, especially for unexperienced drivers.
What about the lack of couple we read about to many times? It's not a lie, if you want to overtake another car, you better be high in the rev range because in the lower part the engine is dead. Once on the boil, it keeps revving, up, up and up again to 9000 revs, making for an interesting sensation. It is weird to have a car revving so high and in which you can keep a given gear engaged for so long
it is fun for a while but the delivery is perfectly linear, there is no point in the rev range where you can feel something changing in the engine.. it just revs, revs and revs, and again in every gear, but it doesn't even a certain revs where the turbo kicks you butt or when a bypass valve opens or where the power has an abrupt peak, there is nothing like that.
The sound is better that in vids, both inside or outside, it is "different" and a pleasure. The buzz at the rev line seems way quiter than it was in the RX7.
Sadly we had not enough time with the cars to really stretch its legs or abuse the brakes, but it seems a very good package, it is cheap afterall, well built and all.
It might be a small engine, but revving like a fool, you still use a lot of petrol, probably something in the 16 liters / 100 km
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Now we will take a break for a week, but we should have a Corvette C6 right after that
Sept 3rd - A ride in a Mazda RX8
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