http://www.rx7city.com/downloads/2006_rx-7_hoax.pdf
It's old but I'd get it whether it had a 7 or 8 on it.
It's not real though. Someone just had a lot of time and very good photoshop skills.

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Indeed just a PS, but it's still a nice concept that saw life in the RX-8. If and when they decide to make another RX-7, I hope it has a bit of a different style as I think the greenhouse is a bit too prominent. The RX-7 should have an extremely low profile. I'm still in love with the FD series of the RX-7 and I think it would take quite a bit of effort to live up to the design and performance of the famed RX-7. JMHO.

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It won't be an RX7 to me unless it has flip lights. I know that's died now but there's still a fan base for them. Especially the diehard 7 fans.

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thats the rx8, they have just messed about with the front bumper..theres millions of them in the UK

It's an RX7 photoshop concept, lol. Reminds me of the 6th gen Prelude concept that looks like a 6th Gen Accord. I just wanna get rotary powered.

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ill post pics of the new Uk RX8 when i get the chance - its exactly the same as the one above...apart from a few changes here and there unless im missing something

The UK is a coupe or does it have the reverse doors? There's a difference, lol.

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no the uk spec has the suicide doors...they have ****ed about with the positioning of door handles and little tweaks here and there but the overall shape and model is the RX8

oh ok. So does ours.

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has anyone here drove an RX-8. my gf has one and i dont like the way it rides. its a nice car but i was expecting more out of it

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I have sat in one.. me and my older bro went to buy one at an auction but it sold for just slightly more than we were willing to pay.. you would think its cramped in there but its quite spacious

Not enough power for me, lol.
I like how it rides alright. I'd get one if I got it cheap and had the money to do a swap.

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the thing with rotary wankel egines is you can squeeze as much power as you want out of them... i dont know if anyone remembers but the rx7 had to be rebuilt every 60000 miles or so..luckily the rx8 doesnt have that problem i would still buy one though if i had the money to throw away

they get bad names from bad owners. I've seen T2's go over 180,000 miles and still be driving strong. RX-8's still have the same problem, just not as bad. I talked to a guy who worked for Mazda for about a year. He said he hated how people came in all the time cause they blew their engines in their new cars. Of course, there was a recall on them to begin with. I forget what it was exactly. A lot of it has to do with bad driving and not keeping it oiled.

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tru...im just surprised how they allowed RX7 and RX8 into the US due to the emissions it produces..the rotary engine produces a lot more emmissions than a piston engined car and a lot more than what the US would allow..

It depends on where it's registered.
That might be why Canada is pissed at us. Most of our factories and industry is in the north and they were/are pissed at us because we pollute their air, lol.
We don't have emissions or anything where I am. Both of my cars would fail if we did. I'll just leave it at that.

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well the situation was that the wankel engines have a two spark plug system which ignite the fuel combustion chamber..sometimes a spark misfires and u get a lot of unburnt fuel in the combustion chamber because it relies on the power from the combustion to rotate the internal rotor..when this happens u get high emmissions..therefore US never allowed the rx8 to be sold in the states apart from California i think..

i went to a mazda zoom-zoom event a summer or 2 ago and drove a buncha their cars....... FOR FREE!!
the rx-8 def had a smooth power band, but it had NO power at all. i put my foot to the floor and i was waiting for a couple seconds to get up to speed. but it handled VERY nicely. basically we drove it on an autocross track, and its a pretty tossable car. just lacks alotta power.

and we also drove the brand new miata.... all i hafta say is we got kicked out of the event from spinning the miata out too many times cuz its so fun to drive
thats such a fun lil car, i love drivin my moms 00 miata too.

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yeah there is really no power at all when u step on it. my h23 feels like it has more getup than the rx8. but they can handle well i just didnt like how much road noise there was. but if it misfires it would throw a CEL so i dont think its that common of a problem. also the two spark plugs are $20 a piece.... thats crazy

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my dad has an RX-8 he's done a little bit of work to it. his sounds great and is pretty quick.. the body styling is very unique its one of those either you love it or hate it cars. I like it a lot corners very nimbly and the transmissions smooth overall i like it but it could use more power.. if it had say 280 or 290 stock i think it would be more popular and a better car overall

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thx OB

dude this thread is super oldddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

It is indeed old, but I'm going to have to give RedRocket a lil credit here. We are always bitchin' about people not searching for what they are looking for. Now here's a guy or girl that actually took the time to look through stuff before posting some bs thread about a subject that's been covered a million times. So here's to you...RR..

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i know this was posted a long time ago, but the rx8 is definitely sold in the states.

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Yeah it is. My cousin had one...until his parents took it from him and sold it, haha. They handle very well, but like was said before, lacking in the power department. Although, I'm just spoiled, I get to drive an H22 around every day.

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haha yeah i'm in OH and they definitely have them here, although you don't see them very often.

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I like the rx8 was thinking about getting one but i got the lude, the coup looks BA and if it was real i might have got it. 1.3 pushing 230hp and i think a bit fater then a lude in the 1/4 just felt kinda slow compared to the lude so i didn't get it.

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wow yesterday i was like wtf this is really old...and i tried to see what was different since i thought this was a new post.

not to figure out today is when i find out this was posted in january lol

^ and you say i need to but the beer down.

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Yes, BUT the beer down. Whatever that means. I think the RX-8's look good, but I'm not impressed with their performance. RX-7 FTW.

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lol @ yogi, listen i need a beer right now with all this stress -_-