Mazda RX8

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andygb wrote: »

Please tell us what that "certain type of use" is then, because I thought it was released as a sports car, you know, like Audi TTs, Z4s and the like.
It certainly is not a specialist track day car.

You just answered your own question.

The TT and Z4 are much better day to day cars than the RX8. The RX8 needs to actually be used as a sports car on a regular basis wheras the TT and Z4 do not.

almillar

If everyone thought like andygb, we'd all be driving around in bland 4 cylinder Euroboxes (and Alfas!). The RX8 is the only car that has a rotary engine, which has advantages and disadvantages when compared to a piston engine. It has been in development for over 40 years now. Mazda currently builds them, and researches them. At the same time, Mazda, and all other manufacturers are building and researching piston engines.
Piston engines do fail at 30k. Usually due to manufacturing defects or gross mistreatment. Same with rotaries. Plenty of 100k+ mile motors around if you check out the forum.

andygb

almillar wrote: »

If everyone thought like andygb, we'd all be driving around in bland 4 cylinder Euroboxes (and Alfas!). The RX8 is the only car that has a rotary engine, which has advantages and disadvantages when compared to a piston engine. It has been in development for over 40 years now. Mazda currently builds them, and researches them. At the same time, Mazda, and all other manufacturers are building and researching piston engines.
Piston engines do fail at 30k. Usually due to manufacturing defects or gross mistreatment. Same with rotaries. Plenty of 100k+ mile motors around if you check out the forum.

What a good advert for the RX8 - not!

They are not even all that quick, and that stupid door design, to allow passengers access to seats where you cannot sit, is just ridiculous.
BTW I do not know anyone (And I have attended track days and the like), who has ever had an engine failure at 30K miles, but then I do not know any RX8 owners.

mark5

andygb wrote: »

What a good advert for the RX8 - not!

They are not even all that quick, and that stupid door design, to allow passengers access to seats where you cannot sit, is just ridiculous.
BTW I do not know anyone (And I have attended track days and the like), who has ever had an engine failure at 30K miles, but then I do not know any RX8 owners.

I have known a few ppl to have engines replaced at very low miles, it does happen!

david29dpo

My RX7 is still going strong with the same engine at 131000 miles.

almillar

Is that the rear passengers that simply don't exist in an S2000, TT, 350z? Come on, it's a proper sports car that can actually take 4 people in decent comfort, slagging off the half doors when no other car in the class even has any is a bit rich! Which cars are faster can you remind me? Alfa GT diesel?!! 230bhp, 6.4 sec 0-60, not that the 0-60 time tells everything, the best thing about the RX8 is the handling, and you can't put out specs for that.
People at track days usually maintain their cars very well btw, so not the place I would expect engine failures. Boiling brakes, but not broken engines!

k.o.d

andygb wrote: »

I have been reading this thread, and I am quite shocked, that in this day and age, there are cars which destroy engines at around 30K miles. As an owner of several old Alfas, I am aware of the stick which they get from the motoring press over their so called reliability issues. So, when Jeremy Clarkson and the like heap praise on the Mazda RX8, I will sit back with a smug look on my face, because having done over 500K miles in Alfas, I have never been stranded at the roadside, and all of my Alfas (Four of them), had done well over 100K miles.
I think Mr Clarkson should do a little piece on the reliability of the RX8.

Try a 1.8 Freelander, they can destroy engines at any mileage, and transfer boxes and VCU's and IRD's etc. etc.