Just off to the pub at lunchtime in the car (well its Friday!) and I had Talk Sport on the radio. Mike Rutherford (respected car journalist currently writes for Autoexpress) has a car show on there at lunchtime, and to my surprise he started talking about the RX-8.

I spent 10 mins sitting in my car in the pub car park, everyone wondered where I had got to.

He had an interview with Jeremy Thompson Marketing Director Mazda UK, and went on to discuss and praise the RX-8 no end.

Mike Rutherford said it was about the best car he had driven all year, and for him it was most likely his car of the year even though there is 5 months to go.

Spent a lot of time talking about the freestyle doors, the fact it is a four seater, and how on earth they can sell it for the price and still make a profit. Didnt mention the rotary at all though.

Jeremy Thompson said they have sold 1250 cars without even advertising it.

Bottom line was this is going to be a great car with a lot od success.

You might all want to go out and buy the Daily Mirror today as they mentioned there is a review of the RX-8 today as well.

You might all want to go out and buy the Daily Mirror today as they mentioned there is a review of the RX-8 today as well.


BUY a newspaper??? Cant someone post a scan or someting?

Im sure you can afford the 30p or whatever, but can you take the ebarrassment of buying the Mirror :)

I too heard the interview. Several points annoyed me :

1."You can go and read about it in the mirror or better still pop into a Mazda showroom and view the car for yourself" He neglected to tell you about the £600 plane ticket you would need to buy to travel the the japanese dealer;)
2.he went on about the build quality, practicality and value but neglected to mention anything about how it drove:(

Lastly (just to add to what Mark said) Jeremy Thompson from Mazda said deliveries would be in October - of course he didn't say on what date and exactly how many although he did confirm 80% of the cars sold were the high power.Out of interest I wonder what the split is on the TT's 180 vs 225's?

Ed