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Re: 2008 Mazda RX-8 -- Very Painful to Read ...

by "Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 11, 2008 at 04:50 PM

It occurs to me that English is not your native language because you have 
several incomplete thoughts and mangled sentences, starting with the very 
first sentence.

Sorry, I can't get through it ...

PS
To the extent you do not like the suicide doors, I agree.

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"chantique" <dinire@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:36d5bd27-a58e-42da-aee3-ca62bdb7a4a9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I'll go ahead and a risk-based marketing guess that good people want
> to Mazda I think the 2008 Mazda RX-8 40th Anniversary Edition as the
> culmination of their design and engineering genius. Unfortunately, the
> first thing that crosses my mind is that the suicide-doored, a little
> rotary engine 2 +2 is a profound and unapologetically bizarre
> automobile. And whether the RX-8 is fun and refre****ng Mitch Hedberg /
> Lotus Europa / Devo kind of bizarre or exhausting and tedious
> Gallagher / Citroen DS / Buckethead kind of bizarre was not
> immediately clear to me that I tried like hell to get as far as
> Brooklyn-Queens Expressway as possible.
>
> It is not fair to evaluate any car, let alone one who claims to have a
> personality, by driving on the BQE, where thoughts of "Does this car
> work as planned?" are constantly interrupted by threat Mitsubi**** Fuso
> Truck box full of poorly secured propane cylinders in bulk.
> Nevertheless, I was quickly forced to see the RX-8 thank God brakes
> excellent, well-executed Grand Touring-style ride quality, and the
> fact that the engine was certainly not the kind of sounds I was used
> for the kind of power I would have liked. The moteur (and a little
> ****fter notchy) took place too much of my attention, I must admit,
> because despite my abnormally high tolerance for weirdness, I wondered
> if I could tolerate under the hood.
>
> The RX-8 1.3 liter dual-rotor Renesis engine has much more power than
> the couple, which naturally means that I'm revving it pretty hard.
> That adds to the stress of navigating traffic - whether high-speed
> bumper to bumper or a walking-pace exploration. Nevertheless, it is
> meant well, because technological central Mazda can run to nine
> throughout the day great. But I would be more comfortable if I have no
> doubt exactly how or why this has been the case. As far as I can
> determine (please, please, hold your comments) and the ingenious
> decidedly bizarre Wankel rotary engine works by using internal
> combustion to a rebound fat triangle around metal in a metal trough
> kidney beans, hula-circles around a central shaft to produce
> electricity. Very, very good power, in fact, that builds gradually and
> well. And before I know, the BQE is behind me, as a long illness or a
> poorly planned highway, and turned into some fairly well Catskills two-
> lane roads. The engine is thus transformed from a gutless
> responsibility to forgive an instrument that rewards conducting
> liquid, which forces me to try some of this for a change, notchy
> ****fter and all.
>
> And this is where I became aware that this car comes hard covers
> beautifully. The direction is almost as strong as anyone would really
> be a road car, instantly respond with comments that stopped short of
> becoming tiring. The brakes have loads feel to find a balance between
> their power. The RX-8 any type of flow its way forward when you're
> doing the right, and is quite prepared to do all day as long as you're
> not asking him to do whatever is really unreasonable. It is really a
> grand touring car, after all, and without a B-pillars in the frame, if
> it is perhaps not a world beating handler on the numbers alone. Not
> that anyone should care if they smile as much as I did. Hell, if the
> RX-8 does it with a deep sense of strangeness, well, why complain?
>
> Maybe you complain, as I did, because the oil light started coming on
> intermittently. Normally, I suspect that I holed a piston - Er, a ring
> deformed - cast a rod - tricks not possible here. Since I had done
> enough research to fear me, I knew that these wonderful mystery
> engines can go through a quart of oil every 3000 miles. The rotary
> engine May near perfected in its 40th year, but it is far from
> conventional. The Renesis uses an oil-injection system because of the
> difficulty lubricating a Wankel, for one thing, and our test car was
> just (more) because for some, which I duly administered. Part of east
> Wankelry keeping your leisure litre of 5W-20 in hand, a practice both
> curiously archaic and maybe even romantic, but certainly unusual.
> Especially because you have to unsnap the flat plastic Read /
> Tupperware check engine cover, much less add the oil. One way or
> another, it is a level of participation that offer little vehicles.
> Weirdness has its price.
>
> Until the unusual machines and my own state of mind to cool, I tried
> the plus-two seats in the back and took notes. They seem like they
> actually be good for a few hours, unlike the 30 minutes in the rear
> Mini Coopers and so forth, but I could not see a Damn Thing outside
> the car. Who is a nice leather interior, decorated with lots of little
> fat triangle symbols Wankelry here and there, but when I'm in a car, I
> like to see. I used the backseats for my duffel bag the rest of the
> time, get easy access by rear-hinged front doors to open.
>
> By the way, Mazda marketing gurus have taken a page of the F-word
> naming convention of the mark sugar daddy and asked the "Free Style"
> doors instead of "suicide" doors. Moving an end beautifully colored
> like that in a car also strange that not only thorns, it is
> practically a crime against culture. I will ask you whether it would
> be possible to find the head PR hack, killing him and make it look
> like a "Free Style."
>
> And this is where I realize this car won me over. It May be bizarre,
> but it is also an engaging, light, flexible, powerful enough car is a
> real pleasure, but everywhere in the city, where he is a little high
> strung, nervous, and Darty. Well, in the streets, so am I. But I like
> roads, the RX-8 just makes me feel like a much better driver than I am
> by letting me go fast without a billion power and fearless me to
> death. This will on someone - perhaps even romantic - a little
> strange.
>
> Read More... http://high-car.blogspot.com
 




 3 Posts in Topic:
2008 Mazda RX-8
chantique <dinire@[EMA  2008-05-10 20:17:24 
Re: 2008 Mazda RX-8 -- Very Painful to Read ...
"Jeff Strickland&quo  2008-05-11 16:50:06 
Re: 2008 Mazda RX-8 -- Very Painful to Read ...
kludge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-05-11 15:47:05 

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