Mazda RX-8 5 Speed 192ps Review

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Mazda RX-8 5 Speed 192ps
4.4 stars
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Newt1's Review of Mazda RX-8 5 Speed 192ps

24th Aug 2006

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    5 stars
  • Length of ownership
    6 months
  • Performance
    4 stars
  • Reliability
    4 stars
  • Year Manufactured
    2004
  • Doors
    4
  • Practicality
    4 stars
Good Points

4 Doors, can fit kids in back, not a bad sized boot, the sexiest looking reasonably priced sports car on the market, handling is the best handling car in its class by far and when you try hard it goes like a rocket.


Bad Points

Fuel consumption. I have managed to get down to about 10mpg by raggin the life out of this car. If I drive at 55mph all over the shop I can get 24mpg out of it top whack. Who cares though, I only look at my credit card statement once a month, I look at the car every day!


General Comments

This Mazda RX-8 5 Speed 192ps is a superb bit of kit. Excellent interior layout, very comfortable. All my work colleagues want to go out in my car at lunch time. Fast, perfectly reliable as long as you don't start it up, then turn the engine off within 2-3 minutes, otherwise the engine will flood and is unrecoverable by a normal person. Mazda will come and sort it out under warranty however (it happened to me once). The boot opening isn't very big, so although the boot is quite large, getting anything other than shopping in it, is impossible. You will also have to top the oil up once every 1000 miles max as this is a feature of the rotary engine. Read the manual, it tells you all about it - Mazda are perfectly open about this 'feature'. One piece of advice, buy one 2nd hand. I bought an 18 month old car with 13k on the clock for 16k, that's 6k less than list for an almost new car in mint condition. A saving that makes sense and will pay for some petrol! I love this car, it's the best I've every had and my previous car was a Lexus IS200, so that says something! BUY ONE NOW, YOU WOULDN'T BE READING REVIEWS IF YOU DIDN'T WANT ONE !

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