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What's your other car?

I remember a old thread where people listed their other car. I'm looking for suggestions, I love my 8 and the way it drives, I want to keep it as long as possible, so I want to drive it less and keep it in the garage. Any suggestions on next car to get that is similar? I'm thinking S2K since there value holds pretty good and I can resale in a few years when hopefully a new RX is released.
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I'm trying to get a clean S2K for $7-9K or a Ducati Monster or Yamaha R6 for 3-4K and ride those until a new RX comes out.
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99 Ford Ranger that is under going a 5.0 swap currently. The wife's car is 12 or 13 Kia Soul.


"Other car" as in car other than your RX-8. You don't even own an RX-8.
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It's bumper to bumper traffic everyday from 7AM-9PM in here so.. not really smart to drive the 8 as a DD, carbon build up game is strong.
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The 8 is the 'other' car. DD is a 16 Mazda 6.
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Originally Posted by ZoomZoom999
The 8 is the 'other' car. DD is a 16 Mazda 6.
I heard the new Mazda 6 is pretty good. How does it stack up against the 8?
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It's a wrong wheel drive gutless 4 banger, how do you think it stacks up?
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Originally Posted by 9krpmrx8
It's a wrong wheel drive gutless 4 banger, how do you think it stacks up?
The 2.5 liter isn't that bad.


That's about 7 seconds. It could keep up with an RX8. Unless the RX8 driver did a 6000rpm clutch drop, maybe even beat it!
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