how boring

 

Ja, series II was worse than series one.

No wonder you are bored.

 

so mazda produced almost 200,000 RX-8s. That's more than what I thought

Not sure I understand why is it people say the RX-8 was a failure

And Mazda should have produced that last Spirit-R RX-8 with a damn turbo charger. Come on Mazda. Last car, last production, make it really memorable with boost!!

 

i would like to see that car with some proper fitment and nice (er) wheels

 

I know where you're coming from, but they would lose money on every single one.

 

does it look like Mazda would spend the extra effort to port the engine, design a turbo charger to fit around the engine bay, make extra stuff, Tuning, more emission test, etc for a car that's losing money ?

not likely

So ... Just wait for the next one to come out !

 

or just buy an FD... like me! mwuahahha time to be bankrupt!

 

After you are 90% done with the FD and bankrupt, I be more than happy to buy ur "UNFINISHED" project for 10K and I'll just finish the last 10% ...

 

Looks like at least the japanese know a good car when they see one.

http://wot.motortrend.com/more-pleas...an-199095.html

"The 1000-unit Mazda RX-8 Spirit R special edition commemorated the end of the RX-8 sports car. It was evidently so successful that Mazda will make another 1000 copies before ceasing production of the car next month.

The Spirit R was conceived as a final edition model of the Mazda RX-8 and sold exclusively in Japan. The cars were available with manual or automatic transmissions (although Mazda says the manual take rate was some 66 percent), and painted in aluminum metallic, sparkling black mica, or crystal white pearl mica.

The second round of Spirit Rs will look and feel exactly the same as the first, which means they’ll have the same special features as the original 1000. Those features include special Recaro seats, 19-inch alloy wheels with bronze paint, a special aerodynamic kit with a revised front fascia and side skirts, and Bilstein dampers.

As for the Spirit R name, it harkens back to the final production run of the late RX-7 sports car, which left the American market in 1995 and ended production in 2002. With the end of the RX-8 Spirit R comes the end of the rotary-powered Mazda, at least for now. Fans of the quirky engines will remember that Mazda officials have hinted that the Renesis rotary engine may make a comeback in the future.

In the meantime, Japanese RX-8 fans should grab $40,277 ($38,666 for the automatic) and run, don’t walk to the nearest Mazda dealer. We’re guessing the last 1000 Spirit Rs will be sold as fast as…well, as fast as they drive.



Read more: http://wot.motortrend.com/more-pleas...#ixzz1uaGaRz1a "

 

This has been reposted so many times.

News is so old, they probably already have sold out of the second batch of spirit-R's.

 

Whoops, I must of missed it.

 

Yea the article is from April 27th and you're new to this forum so you most likely missed it.

It's alll goooood though.

 

Threads merged.

 

Yeah.....Mazda just had a 'spare' 1000 body shells, 1000 seat sets, 1000 engines, 1000 dashboards and the 396,000 other parts needed 'just lying around' to make another 1000 complete RX-8's.

 

They should have a part out!
I'd sell my soul for those seats...

 

If they really wanted to sell some cars as the last model year, they should have made them with a 3 rotor engine.

 

Jesus if they revamped the 20b with some of the 16x tech...