Originally posted by monkey
is it a POS because it's not a 14 second car?
all this drag racing co*ck measuring is pretty retarded from where i stand.
no i was commenting on it because ive driven it, and raced it on a autoX track.
Originally posted by twin3037
rotary engines are more reliable then normal engines mazda jsut ****ed up the recent one not the rx-8 but the other and it's not the rotar or that itself that alwasy ****s up it's the sequential turbos but rotarys have less moving parts and almost never tend to break
i may be wrong but i was under the impression that the internal engine seals on the rotor are what tends to wear out by 80k-100k. i didnt mean to say its not reliable, i meant that it tends to burn more oil and lose compression faster than a normal piston engine.
other than that its a great idea, wankel designed it like 60 years ago to be the most efficient engine, and ill bet it is.
my main point is that mazda is just throwing a hype party, thats the impression i got from the RevItUp Tour, tons of free shit, free autoX clinic with brand new mazda's. you know kinda trying to build popularity with the enthusiast crowd.
~boom