Who thinks its a true story?

[2.25teg]

rotary sucks buy a honda

[EJ25RUN]

rotary sucks buy a honda

Yours?

[DVSRX-7]

rotary sucks buy a honda

lol your mom sucks and like i said before honda is for HOMO's.. (HOnda MOtors)... so keep your FWD shit

[EJ25RUN]

lol your mom sucks and like i said before honda is for HOMO's.. (HOnda MOtors)... so keep your FWD shit

Way to make yourself look intelligent.

[Elbow]

LOL

[alpine_aw11]

A new rx3 would be pretty awesome. But like everyone has said, the primary success of the rotary has been far from the standard A to B commuter car. The rotary obviously has had a great racing history, but it doesn't translate very well to the average car buyer. I do want a rotary car someday though, my uncles rx8 was so fun to drive. I love the feel of revving a rotary to the heavens.

[Brut]

My DD rx7 I use to have had 249k+ miles on it and its still going strong. I did regular maintenance as I would on a piston engine.

[David88vert]

Wow, some of the posts in here....
Fact: N/A rotarys are extremely reliable, and require very little maintanence, although regular oil changes are a must - jst like in a piston motor. Both are air pumps.
Fact: While the old rotarys polluted a lot, the Renesis is a low emissions motor.
Fact: The Renesis gets better fuel economy than the old rotarys.
Fact: Renesis has less vibration than piston motors (i.e. smoother).
Fact: One of the old problems with rotarys was carbon build-up. The Renesis changed the seals to avoid that issue.
Fact: N/A rotarys do not produce enough torque for use in a work truck, only small pickups, so they are not the optimal choice for a new truck from Mazda. Yes, I am extremely familiar with the REPUs.
Fact: Mazda racing was so reliable with the rotarys that they were banned from multiple series, and they ruled IMSA for a long time.

[Benefit]

ruck fotaries

[Glides]

Now, what killed the RX7 in America was not the engine, the emissions...none of that. What killed it was the price. The RX7 was one of the 4 super cars from Japan. The FD, the Supra, The 300ZX and lastly, late in the game, the 3000GT-VR4.

The RX7s, the Supras and the Nissans all came out to be poor mans sports cars. They were meant to have Porsche Performance at budget pricfes. They did that very well in the beginning. The FBs and the 240Z's were cheap, fast and great cars to do SCCA racing in. Now, as time went on, they fattened them up, loaded them up with gadgets and gizmos and then you end up with $40,000 cars that basically outgrew that market they were originally designed for.

For $40,000 you could get something that is synonomous with style, speed and grace to the average white bread cracker american like me. I could get a Bimmer or a Porsche for that money back in 93 that chicks would salivate over. You need to remember that some of you were still riding with training wheels when these cars came out and times were very different then. There was no Import Aftermarket. Nopi was a bunch of stores that stocked VW parts and I worked at the one in Athens. So buying one of these required a very special love for the car. Which caused the RX7's ALOT of trouble, because people bought them, put them in garages and left them there. Matter of fact, on a funny note, I had one of the very first, if not the first Veilside repo wings to come out of Nopi on my 93 FD in like 97 or something. Back when you could go to TArget and 5 people would ask you if that car was a Ferarri or a Lamborghini or something. You just never saw FD's. I won a trophy once at a car show and the guy announced it as "That crazy red car, we don't know what it is but it's cool"

Now, bring in the RX8....put it beside an RX7 and you are severly let down. Hence the sales problems of the RX8. Mazda just couldn't compare with it's predecessor. Add that to the fact that Rotary horror stories still circulate by peolple that generally have no clue what they are saying and there you have it.

Thats what killed the super Japanese performance cars of the early 90s and it's taken this long for the market to start opening up again to allow things like the GTR to come over here.