abs016

SO, I am going through the RX8 videos on Google Videos and come across this and am shocked!


The clip involving RX8... how is that possible?


Link is here

BB8guy

he was "granny shifting when he should have been double clutching..." lol...

Chrisbert

Really stupid video.

NoTears316

Take into acount the lack of intelligence it took to do that on a public road, and you can guess the driver's skill. Agree with above, stupid video.

khtm

It's an AUTOMATIC rx-8.

Coop '04

Yes I am surprised the auto 8's even move forward....

shakRpahX8

^ LOL...that's little cruel don't you think..lol..

SHOWOFF

Was the 8 "that slow" or was the 3 "that fast"? If you watch the cars take off the front end of the 8 doesn't continue to rise under accell like it did when it took off.

PIGBAIT

https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-multimedia-photo-gallery-6/what-going-here-80657/

abs016

Apologies for being a repost.

Rich Rx-8

Yeah that vid is a waste of time, but you guys gotta also realize that the manual 8 isn't really much faster in a straight line than the auto 8 i've driven both.

NgoRX8

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^??

if you can really drive stick... it would be a big difference...

Rich Rx-8

Yeah I can drive stick thanks for asking

Glyphon

only about 1.5 to 2 seconds 0-60 difference

Rich Rx-8

Yeah it's such a 0-60 kinda car aint it !?

Glyphon

not the point. you said that the M/T isn't much faster in the straightline than the A/T. 1.5 to 2 seconds is a huge difference. it just might not feel like a big difference because of the way that rotary engine produces power. but the difference is there.

khtm

Exactly...there's even been RX-8 meets where members on this board have raced their AT against an MT.

It aint even close to being close.

Consider the RX-8 MT 0-60 compared to a Covette (not Z06) 0-60...most people would say there's a big difference there right? Well that's the SAME difference as the RX-8 MT compared to RX-8 AT.

Rich Rx-8

Is it 1.5 or 2, you don't seem to think a half a second is much of a difference between the two so WHY would you think 1.5 is a huge difference !?

Rich Rx-8

The point is that it aint huge buddy

khtm

It's closer to 2 seconds, but it really depends on the driver(s).

Ok "buddy", I guess the RX-8 MT is pretty much as fast as a Corvette.

Obviously you own the AT and have some insecurity issues about it...that's ok, hopefully you'll get over it...but the numbers don't lie. Whatever you "felt" while driving them both doesn't mean squat.

moRotorMotor

This argument is so stupid I'm not even going to try and give you an example how big a difference, 1.5-2 seconds is.

SHOWOFF

It's significant.

Using VERY crude math I'll show you how significant.

60 mph = 88 FEET PER SEC.

If you take 60 MPH and divide it by the total # of sec it takes an RX-8 to hit 60 mph (5.9 for Manual 7.5 for auto) that equals 10.1 MPH per sec. So when the MT hits 60 the AT is going about 45 MPH. A diff of about 15 mph which equals about 22 feet, or 1 and a half car lengths. That's VERY significant in a "stop light race".

Rich Rx-8

Thats actually some really good info. Thanks I can't say much more now !

terrypk1

but one more reasons, how do you guys know that rx8 is a AT instead of MT. i can't really tell the difference in the video. or do you guys simply based your assumption on that AT rx8 is as fast as the Mazda 3??

RX4life

^^ pretty much..i just wished the RX-8 ATs had a bigass bdge stating its an auto... i hate it when peeps on local forums come and say that thier civic smoked an RX-8 lol.. not that its 0-60 car ofcourse...