RX-8 gets a bit of an upgrade
#21
If there were as much money going into rotaries as there were going into piston crank engines, i'm sure they'd be much more reliable. With a piston crank engine you have sooooo many little parts that are accelerating back and forth and back and forth. Each acceleration puts a lot of strain on each of those parts. Meanwhile, the rotary is just a constant rotation thing, no back and forth and back and forth motion
#23
The rotary has always been an 80k mile engine when turbo'd. Why do you think no turbos this time around on the 8? The last gen RX7TT was expensive, about $34k in 1993 with 240 hp, about $45,000 today. If it was that great, everyone would be using it now. I loved my 81(that lasted about 110k miles) and my 93(that burst into flames with 10k), but its more of a niche car with that platform then something to build around. I would love to see something cool like a straight 6 rx7 then a rotary.
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