If you haven't heard, recently the Mazda RX-8 was taken off life support simply to be let go. And that's sad, because Mazda had something special there.
Don't ask me, ask the thousands of happy owners and folks that had the chance to pilot the rotary-hearted beast. Unfortunately, I wasn't one of them.
But anyone I've spoken to who fully appreciates driving -- and isn't a "badge whore" -- will tell you that it was a special piece that was tuned for drivers. Of course it also boasted those doors for the second row to provide some practicality.
There have only been two complaints from folks I have spoken to:
1) Gas mileage, gas mileage, gas mileage (which really wasn't that big of a deal when the car debuted way back when)
2) Early built models tended to be oil eaters
With that said, I think we may have something that could be worthy of some value down the road. Hell, even RX-7s are still highly desirable.
Question is: will the RX-8 have the same following and buyers chasing after it so values will remain propped up OR will it just simply become "another Mazda?"
The world was just not big enough.
That could be the epitaph on the bumper of the 2011 Mazda RX-8. It's the sports car few understood and even fewer loved enough in the end.
Now, the RX-8 will become a footnote, kind of like the RX-7, until, of course, hopefully, the RX-9. The very last RX-8 has been made. No more will follow. (Though there are still some at dealerships, hint, hint.)
Simply put, the RX-8 ran out of gas, and this summer Mazda Motor Corp. ended production of this top-of-the-line racer with a rotary engine and race car lines...
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