Adamrotor

Hey everybody just came from the revit up. Man I love the 8 even though I dont own one yet, well lets cut to the chase my 1st run was 37.xxx time, boo I hit a cone. 2nd run i hit a 33.xxx time.
Well I test drove the mazdaspeed miata and it rocks if I had the money to get both the miata and the 8 I would, but I love rotary.

jonnyb

where do you live? could you give more of an indepth "review" of the whole thing? ive been thinking about signing up for it.

G8rboy

Must have been at the Chicago rev-it-up... I was there on Saturday. I ran a 34.xx and 31.xx- I was just getting the hang of autocrossing with a front wheel drive... I wish we had another run or two.

D Menac 7 and I had our 8's on display in front of the MazdaSport Enthusiasts' tent- talked to tons people about the virtues of rotary power

rx-cars_rock

I was at rev it up on saturday too. I ran a 32.2, and a 31.145. I don't really like autoX. Especially with FWD. I didn't know there would be members there. I checked out the mazdaspeed 8 and miata. More head room in the hard top 8.

draco067

I'm going to be at the DC event in two weeks ... I did it last year and had a blast driving the 6, should be even more fun with the smaller 3 and the rx-8 and MS miata to test drive :D I had never had any sort of autox experience before, but I totally am going to get involved sometime in the near future.

G8rboy

Yes- the 3 is much better than the 6... and they've tuned the suspension making it surprisingly neutral for a FWD. I was expecting lots of understeer but had none at all.

I've got the auto-x bug again myself- it's been a few years but I'm going to hook up with the Windy City Miata club for their events and get my 8 out on the cone hunt.

TwoZooms

Tell me that the Rev It Up cars have manual transmissions. I'm attending the DC event in early May but would be disappointed if I couldn't do the shifting myself.

G8rboy

Would love to, but no... they're all autos. The only small upside is the M3's all have the manual-mode autos, and the course is fairly slow and quite small, so once you put it in second you can just leave it there. Launching is really the only problem- feels like you're in slow motion, even with holding down the brake and revving to 3k.

TwoZooms

Thanks for the info, G8rboy. I suppose I can live with missing just one 1-2 shift. I suppose I had some faint hope of learning how to heel-and-toe using someone else's gearbox . . .

Adamrotor

My event was placed in chicago

TwoZooms

They may use the same cars from city to city. I wonder how many autocross runs a Mazda 3 could survive before being ready for retirement.