For Christmas I saw one of my cousin's bought a 2005 mazda rx-8. That is a nice looking little car for sure. he was bragging on how fast it was so I went ride with him. It was ok. Some kind of rotary motor with a six speed. Not as fast as he made it out to be. He wanted to bet me some cash that he could beat my truck. So when we got back I told him as soon as we were done with the presents I was gonna show him what TORQUE feels like. We ended up not going b/c of the freezing rain had the road too slippery. I will give him a call when NPR opens and show him some american muscle.

He didn't know what it runs in the 1/4, but he told me he called a performance shop and told them the weight and HP and they said it would run somewhere in the 13's at 107mph on the strip. I just had too laugh. I told him not to get his hopes up. Anyone know how fast are these little cars? I think I could definately beat it.

 

I found some 0-60 stats: 5.9 seconds and also 6.4 seconds. The latter was reported by Motor Trend.

I think with the specs in your sig. (12.81 @ 103.59) you should take him, no problem.

 

I dont think hes going to have much for you. It will probably be pretty ugly. According to Car and Driver they run 14.9 @ 95. Maybe you should start the conversation by asking how many lengths he wants

 

Thanks for the info guys. I'll be doing a bit of research also just for ***** and giggles.

 

You'll smoke him.

By the way....how do those rotary engines work?

 

Good question. I'm interested as well. Didn't the Rx7 have the rotory engine as well?

 

ask a you shall receive http://www.turborx7.com/repictures.htm

 

i have seen high 14s reported by the rags. someone mentioned it up above as well.

 

Yes, any Mazda with an RX designation had/has a rotary engine.

 

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