STI = 24mpg hwyLoren wrote:It's a shame about that whole poor efficiency and crappy reliability thing, Doug.
RX8 = 24 mpy hwy
Top speed about on par. Fun factor is ON or OFF road specific. Point is I have never considered fuel economy when purchasing my performance vehicle:)
Worst thing you can do to a Wankel is start it, move it in the driveway, shut it off, try to restart it. They learned that when unloading them off the ship from Hiroshima in 2003.
Most RX-8's sold were automatics, to women with kids, with 30 pages of child seat harnesses, start and stop driving carboned up requiring disassembly to get carbon out of the seals. I took advantage of their extended 8 yr/ 80,000 mile Factory full replacement warrantee on my new engined car with 55k on the chassis. Still the best deal going.
Mazda forgot that the RX7's were sports/performance cars to be driven hard NOT daily drivers. I NEVER had a summer only driven RX7 first gen fail me EVER since 1985. I owned a dozen of them I put back on the road due to a failed hose. Mechanics did a traditional compression test and told folks the engine was toast....hahahaha. I made a bunch of money off those cars for the sake of a $5 hose.
The 3 rotor Rotary was Banned from the 24hrs of Lemans after they killed everyone due to its bulletproof reliability at the extremes. Look who is winning in the Daytona 24 in their class you will see a bevy of RX8's mostly DNF due to wrecks never mechanicals.
Hey I owned a Miata once but got rid of it because no one could see it and those darn pickups were gonna kill me.
