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Originally Posted by RX7 Owner
Actaully from what i understand they didnt overestimate them one bit. Go to a J-Spec RX8 and you will get 255 hp. For those of you that dont know this, rotary engines have to be tuned down, to where they dont run at their best to have a hope of passing emissions in america. Also the addition of cats and all the emissions stuff is what made the car not reach the 255.
Thats all horse didley. When you have SCC trying to trick the sensors on the wheels to see what kinda power the engine really makes, you have a weird, but rather accurate guesstimate on how much an rx8 will put down on the dyno, they run low 14s from the Mazda factory, a 3000 lb car would run high 13s if it had 255 hp. </P>
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Overall the RX8 is wayyy tooo wired for its own good and obviously detuned for emissions testing but people who say the horsepower numbers were NOT lied then they dont know the whole story of the car. </P>
There were a couple of buy back programs later on during the first days of the RX8 cuz the numbers werent producing what they were even close to saying. Ive also seen and raced some of them on the road and say even for an import it is far too underpowered and overrated. Btw i drove a G35 Sedan (dads car)when i smoked the rx8 **** :P My sedan has kick and is comparable to a 4.6 2v auto sooo its not surprising that the rx8 was spanked in the original post. essentialy overrated and underpowered. btw mazda is theoretically no longer an import company since its owned by (i think ford but dont quote me on it)</P><edited><editID>thePreacher</editID><editDate>38019.9833912037</editDate></edited>
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the part of mazdamaking rotaries isnt american. i believe mazda works with ford on the compact truck they make, the 3 (protege replacement), and some other stuff, but i know for a fact they dont own 100% of mazda
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Well, I'll just chime in and say they look pretty sweet. I guess I have to respect what they Mazda guys have to say about dynoing these cars; apparently they work pretty differently in that light. Also, Mustang guys: come on! We all love Mustangs; hell it's my favorite car. But did we all start hating the 99 Cobra when it had to go through the fix to get the advertised 320hp? It happens. Give the car a chance to live up to its potential.
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