2006 RX8 Prodrive PZ
Discussion
DanielSan said:
Didn't feel all that quick fto me personally
They're not going to if you're used to anything turbo-charged. Or for that matter anything with any kind of powerband as they are just too smooth and seamless in their power delivery. To feel fast you need a (ideally sharp) change in acceleration.
DanielSan said:
There's something about these I like, I fortunately managed to borrow one for a few days last year while my Impreza was in the garage for some work, they drive really nicely, handle brilliantly, stop well and with an exhaust sound pretty decent too. Didn't feel all that quick fto me personally but the handling more than made up for it. They're a nice place to be and an absolute bargain.
Fastdruid said:
They're not going to if you're used to anything turbo-charged. Or for that matter anything with any kind of powerband as they are just too smooth and seamless in their power delivery. To feel fast you need a (ideally sharp) change in acceleration.
Thanks for the comments guys, I've driven/owned much faster turbocharged cars, but they are a totally different drive to the RX8. not better or worse, just different 
Gave it a rinse today;
wjb said:
Lost a centre cap 
I've lock wired mine on. Having lost a centre cap within the first week of owning the car, I had to do something to keep them in place - 6 years later and they are still all there. Its a bit of a pain to remove them when it comes to replacing the tyres, but I can live with that.
Desk20 said:
I've lock wired mine on.
Having lost a centre cap within the first week of owning the car, I had to do something to keep them in place - 6 years later and they are still all there. Its a bit of a pain to remove them when it comes to replacing the tyres, but I can live with that.
Having lost a centre cap within the first week of owning the car, I had to do something to keep them in place - 6 years later and they are still all there. Its a bit of a pain to remove them when it comes to replacing the tyres, but I can live with that.
Krikkit said:
I'd just take them all off and do without...
Got a couple of centre caps on the way, panic over!Fastdruid said:
See. Utterly unreliable those RX-8's
Remember my parents had a 231 in this colour-great in the dry, twitchy in the wet; I don't think the standard Bridgestone's did it any favours. However, it really was scalpel sharp. I loved the ability of the engine to rev and rev, how it made you as the driver work at extracting the performance and how more ability came to the fore the harder you pushed it.
Shame they part ex'ed it for a Merc CLK 220 diesel...
Shame they part ex'ed it for a Merc CLK 220 diesel...
itcaptainslow said:
Remember my parents had a 231 in this colour-great in the dry, twitchy in the wet; I don't think the standard Bridgestone's did it any favours. However, it really was scalpel sharp. I loved the ability of the engine to rev and rev, how it made you as the driver work at extracting the performance and how more ability came to the fore the harder you pushed it.
Shame they part ex'ed it for a Merc CLK 220 diesel...
Good comments, they sum up the car well. Shame they part ex'ed it for a Merc CLK 220 diesel...
I don't find it twitchy in the wet, but then I don't push cars in the wet at all.
Seeing this every week is probably why they px'd it for a diesel!
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