Mazda RX-8 Spirit R Limited Edition

Mazda unveiled today the RX-8 Spirit R, a special edition of its well-known four-door, four-seat rotary engine sports car. As expected, due to the fact that the production of the Mazda RX-8 will end in June 2012, the Spirit R will be the final edition and the Japanese manufacturer will build only 1,000 units
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bmwdrvr - 10/7/2011 1:58:07 PM

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Its time for this thing to go, its way too problematic and unreliable to be taken seriously, and on top of that it gets V8 gas mileage and 4 cylinder performance its a waste and is totally uncompetitive with today's sports cars and sports coupes..

JRobUSC - 10/7/2011 5:35:01 PM

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if they could figure out how to get reasonable fuel consumption and stop it from drinking oil, the RX-8 would be a great car. It was definitely a unique vehicle -- that engine is small and light and that packaging allowed it to be mounted far enough forward to make a four door/four seat vehicle that actually looked like a sports car. And the handling was better than any of the competitors without punishing the passengers (hello, Nissan 350/370Z). It wasn't the fastest car but having driven them fairly extensively when they first came out they were in my opinion the most fun cars in the class to drive. The turbine-like sound and the stratospheric redline coupled with that chassis were truly something special. Ironically that engine was both the RX-8's best attribute and biggest downfall.

(above comments were for the stick version only -- the automatic sucked entirely)