i found this webpage with some rx-8 stats what do you guys think???


http://www.alteredrealms.com/hotcars/mz_rx8.html

 

that site looks REALLY REALLY old

"MazdaRX-8
Price: $29-35,000.+
Status: Production 2002"

and all the stats r guesses and completly wrong.

 

that site is old. and it looks like it relies on pre-production model specs.

and it does it say estimated in parenthesis.

that info is outdated.

 

just look the size tire ,it not 19 but 18 inch the real size,but i like the o-60 and the 1/4 miles too .maybe will be able to do it .what do you think?:p :D

 

Key word there is "estimated"

 

It would be nice to see those numbers for the 0-60 and the 1/4 mile. but the weight is lighter than what has been most recently announced. the hp minimum is currently the proposed max for the 6 speed manual off the production lines.

too many differing specs from current listings to use those times in confidence. and again, the 0-60 is listed as an estimate.



I'd like to see those numbers. perhaps even better figures. but I doubt they're exact. hopefully very close though. it's all up in the air, for a little while longer.

 

u know the stats cant be right when for 0-60 they give u a range of 0.5second difference

5.9 and 6.4 is considerably different (EDIT: this was used as an example, not what they stated)

 

yah estimate. LOL. I don't really care, its old news. just redirect that to the car and driver stats.

 

these mags are worthless. MotorTrends issue had the rx8 doing a 14.4 and a 6.4 ... umm. dont they ever average out the times? How can 1 test from 1 to another differ so much. Jeezz.. all mags are worthless, cept for the photos.

speaking of photos..(off the topic) anyone like the new bmw 5 series? i find them repulsive =X

 

the mags aren't worthless. they do test different version of the vehicle at different developmental stages. and those numbers reflect the results of that particular mag's tests. that doesn't mean those numbers are completely worthless.

 

Actually, I'm thinking maybe Motortrend got more of a production RX-8 to test given that the 0-60 is half a second slower (my experience is that MT is not overly aggresive with launching their test vehicles), but the 1/4 mile is .1 sec faster than the other mags.

That .5 sec difference in 0-60 could mean low 14s for production cars, but then again, this is both speculation and not really what the car was primarily designed for anyway.

 

motortrend got 14.8 not 14.4

 

Just saw the actual article....whoops!

I was just going by what Sack said....

 

sorry =( got my numbers mixed up... but still you all get my point =X the numbers fluctuate so much.

even if its in diff stage of production. its due out in few months.. u would figure the numbers would even out.. instead it gets further apart and never make sense.