View Poll Results: If you had to buy the Rx8 all over again, would you prefer:
The traditional Rotary engine currently used
110
75.34%
263 hp, 280 lb-ft 2.3 Turbo'd engine (ala MS3)
36
24.66%
Voters: 146. You may not vote on this poll
RX8 - hypothetical poll
05-29-2007, 03:16 PM
#1
Registered User
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 43
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
RX8 - hypothetical poll
Ok, first, dont mind what appears to be a trolling nickname 
I'll admit, I do have some love for the RX-8 despite its shortcomings. I likes its styling, the tight interior, suicide doors, but i never got over its engine. I know, for many of u the rotary is what defines the Rx. For me, I'm like. .to hell with it.. drop a conventional piston engine and I would've bought one!
So here it is, a hypothetical scenario - if you had to buy the Rx8 all over again, would you prefer the 263 hp and 280 lb-ft turbo'd 2.3 engine found in the mazdaspeed 3?
Or the current 9000 rpm 232 hp and 159 lb-ft rotary?
I'll admit, I do have some love for the RX-8 despite its shortcomings. I likes its styling, the tight interior, suicide doors, but i never got over its engine. I know, for many of u the rotary is what defines the Rx. For me, I'm like. .to hell with it.. drop a conventional piston engine and I would've bought one!So here it is, a hypothetical scenario - if you had to buy the Rx8 all over again, would you prefer the 263 hp and 280 lb-ft turbo'd 2.3 engine found in the mazdaspeed 3?
Or the current 9000 rpm 232 hp and 159 lb-ft rotary?
Last edited by 350zFan; 05-29-2007 at 03:24 PM.
05-29-2007, 04:06 PM
#6
Administrator
iTrader: (7)
LOVE the sound and feel of a Rotary. (even with less hp / tq)
05-29-2007, 04:15 PM
#7
Registered
Join Date: May 2006
Location: pflugerville, tx
Posts: 136
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
so put a turbo on the car. as for an rx with anything but a rotary...it just aint right. I knew when i bought this one that it wasnt the highest horsepower car out there for the dollars....but I can't drive at the peak of this cars performance daily anyways....so why would i want more that I can't use? and since we are talking pure imagination anyway, if i was going to wish for anything it would be the mythical "mazdaspeed" version with FI since that would more than make up for the difference in hp from the 8 to the ms3
05-29-2007, 04:55 PM
#10
Spin Triangles! Spin!
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Texas, US
Posts: 827
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I said rotary, but if my rotary blows before I'm done paying for it, I might change my mind, but for now ROTARY.
________
Depakote attorney
________
Depakote attorney
Last edited by dmorales; 09-09-2011 at 03:25 AM.
05-29-2007, 05:31 PM
#12
Registered
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Ohio
Posts: 335
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Nice poll. I'd stick with the rotary though...I love the sound and the power is plenty for what I need. I don't street race, but I like to take the twisties faster than I should. More low end torque would be nifty, but I have no regrets on my purchase.
05-29-2007, 05:35 PM
#13
jersey fresh
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 3,688
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
though alot of people here complain about the low power, its really more about what the engine is. Thought i've been saying for awhile that a rear drive turbo 4 (aka silvia type car) what be awesome, i don't know if i'd take one over what I have now.
05-29-2007, 06:49 PM
#18
What you fail to realize is that the RX8 wouldn't be an RX-8 without its rotary engine, as a piston engine wouldn't be small and compact enough—the Renesis is barely 13" tall—to fit in the space the Renesis occupies. The remarkable handling—and especially "feel" of the 8—is no accident. It's a direct function of the engine's small size, weight and near mid-engine placement.
You seem to be under the impression that the rotary engine was merely an alternative that could just as easily have been a piston engine. No! Replacing the rotary with a piston engine wouldn't just change power and smoothness—it would dramatically alter the unique and wonderful "feel" and balance of the car—the one thing we "get" by having a small, light, not-very-torquey, not-very-powerful rotary engine instead of a big, heavy reciprocating one. You'd be giving up the very thing that every auto journalist and car magazine gushes about after driving an 8.
You seem to be under the impression that the rotary engine was merely an alternative that could just as easily have been a piston engine. No! Replacing the rotary with a piston engine wouldn't just change power and smoothness—it would dramatically alter the unique and wonderful "feel" and balance of the car—the one thing we "get" by having a small, light, not-very-torquey, not-very-powerful rotary engine instead of a big, heavy reciprocating one. You'd be giving up the very thing that every auto journalist and car magazine gushes about after driving an 8.
05-29-2007, 07:02 PM
#20
Got Another Rotary
I too bought it because of the Rotary Engine.
Without the compact and lightweight characteristics of this engine, the 8 would not handle the way it does.
Plop an piston engine into the 8 and it may be faster in a straight line, but with a detriment to the handling and styling.
Without the compact and lightweight characteristics of this engine, the 8 would not handle the way it does.
Plop an piston engine into the 8 and it may be faster in a straight line, but with a detriment to the handling and styling.
