Docj78

From 2004 to present day, what have been the year to year FACTORY reliability and/or performance improvements that have been made from one year to the next?? Specifically ANY from 2004 to 2005.

For instance, I've been told that the 2007 has a hydraulic clutch for the 1st time, and does not flood as do previous years.

I've all but paid for a 2005 Shinka, so it's almost too late for me, but I'm curious to see a list of sorts of what Mazda has done to improve the car, and cut down on problems and compliants.

moRotorMotor

I thought every RX-8 made comes with a hydraulic clutch.

CarAndDriver

Check out the TSBs and recall information.

IcarusX8

I thought this was going to be a list of changes mazda did to the 8 for each year.

LionZoo

All years have a hydraulic clutch...

Docj78

Actually, the point of this thread was indeed intended to list the changes that were made year to year.

Apparently, the person who told me that the 07 was the first year to get the hydraulic clutch is misinformed?

The reason that I posted this was to get an idea as to what the 06 and newer model years have that the 05 that I am grabbing does not. It seems as though 04 models get a bad rap--but what improvements have been made since 04 (year to year) that contribute to better reliability/performance??

LionZoo

I posted the year by year changes in another thread and just created a new thread specifically for that topic. I figured it would be easier as a thread detailing year by year changes should have all the specifics on post #1.

Raptor75

This might help.

https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...=1#post2406332