Jalopnik is reviewing 2008 RX-8
05-04-2008, 12:16 PM
#27
Adding HP is a good thing but my thing is keeping that handling and braking in check along with it. Once you get in the 30-60K range you have more options but under 30K, not much to choose from.
05-04-2008, 11:17 PM
#29
Jalopnik is great. I love the genre. It's not just technical and dry empirical data, spun into a sum of the parts.
It incorporates culture, those things that can't be 'quantified,' is edgy, and yet still delivers mostly accurate reviews of what a car will feel like to someone who has never driven or ridden in the one being reviewed.
And that's not easy to do.
It incorporates culture, those things that can't be 'quantified,' is edgy, and yet still delivers mostly accurate reviews of what a car will feel like to someone who has never driven or ridden in the one being reviewed.
And that's not easy to do.
05-05-2008, 09:21 AM
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This guy gets it :
It's a really a simple equation.
Raise your hand if you want a rwd manual sports car.
Keep it up if you have a kid or two that you have to tot around a few times a week. (They don't care that they can't see out the back because they're looking at their Nintendo DS most of the time.)
Now keep that hand up if you can't spend more than $30k.
Bonus points if you like to be unique.
There you go. Everybody left should give the RX8 a fair shake because there's precious little else to turn to.
It's a really a simple equation.
Raise your hand if you want a rwd manual sports car.
Keep it up if you have a kid or two that you have to tot around a few times a week. (They don't care that they can't see out the back because they're looking at their Nintendo DS most of the time.)
Now keep that hand up if you can't spend more than $30k.
Bonus points if you like to be unique.
There you go. Everybody left should give the RX8 a fair shake because there's precious little else to turn to.
05-13-2008, 02:10 PM
#31
Does the gearbox get shoddy fast? (seeing as this is probably a car many people have reviewed).
Have to say I'm a bit worried about getting a used car from the US, you guys aren't exactly known to be skilled with the manual cars, no offense, but women very much included :P
Have to say I'm a bit worried about getting a used car from the US, you guys aren't exactly known to be skilled with the manual cars, no offense, but women very much included :P
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