Bye Bye Rx400

[nib4722]

Sold my RX400h yesterday to another LOC member yesterday :-( hope he enjoys it. I have bought a Mitsubishi Shogun Pinin to use for work but need a fun vehicle for the weekends / long journeys / holidays , i am thinking of buying a Mazda RX8 and am asking for other peoples thoughts / ideas.

[ColinBarber]

The RX8 is nice to drive but was quite unreliable when it first came out. Not sure if that has been improved but oil consumption and poor mpg remain.

How about a Toyota GT86 or Honda S2000?

[philthy]

Sold my RX400h yesterday to another LOC member yesterday :-( hope he enjoys it. I have bought a Mitsubishi Shogun Pinin to use for work but need a fun vehicle for the weekends / long journeys / holidays , i am thinking of buying a Mazda RX8 and am asking for other peoples thoughts / ideas.

The RX8 will fall foul of emissions costs. It isn't economical on fuel or oil. A lot of people fall foul of the 1.3cc description when in reality it is 2.6cc. They're cheap for a reason.

[jonthebarber]

A up

Have been through 2 rx8s , great cars for the money . Try to get the full power version , 228bhp (six speed box is the big giveaway between the 2 versions) coils start to fail giving a slight hesitation at about 3-4000 revs , problem is they don't burn all the fuel so you get bore wash , thus the rotor tips wear , if the ad says new cat , that's one of the first signs of a drying motor as the unburnt fuel . Nip over to eBay.com and get them there ,

also get new leads and hotter plugs (£250-£300 all in) , Rusty sills where doors meet , water in tail lights (drill couple of small holes on them) replace gearbox oil with a fully synthetic type (cures the slight notchyness) buy before 2006 as the road tax is a lot cheaper . Yes they are thirsty with fuel and oil , but its a small price to pay for a cheap car that's easy on the eye and very easy to work on :-)

Jon