Denise took me out in the RX-8 on Saturday. Under hard acceleration it sounds like Col. Straker's car from the Gerry Anderson TV series UFO: a mix of the exhaust note and a turbine noise from the engine itself. Very strange. It's quite a bit more comfortable than the Lotus was ( a bit?! ), and is nice and quick, as it should be with 230 PS / 235 bhp on tap. The styling's a bit Thunderbirds too, I think. As we noticed when we looked at one when they first came out, there are nice styling cues throughout the car, using the cross-section shape of the rotor as a motif: it's seen in the seat head-rests, in the rear central reflector, and elsewhere. Circles are also used.
I was surprised to see that although the display looked very similar to the one on my Mazda 6, there is no trip computer. Maybe Mazda didn't want to terrify owners by displaying the dismal fuel consumption. Not an issue for Denise, with her 3 mile journey to work and the occasional trip to the airport; it really shouldn't be a buying decision issue for someone buying a powerful sports car anyway. If you want fuel economy buy a small diesel ...
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