This RX7 looks nice, just needs and LS1 style engine in it....if it doesn't already. That always gets the wankel wankers in a tizzy.
Did you ever do any rallycrossing? The Oregon Rally Group puts on really nice events, usually at a big field across from the Hillsboro county fairgrounds - and the STIs are thick on the ground there. I used to take my wife's entry-level grocery getter Subaru there and race it. Tons of fun. She bought a newer one last year which is all nice and shiny - so she does not allow me to do that anymore - so I had to take my old daily-driver BMW to do that. Not the right car for the venue, being RWD and with an open-diff - but it was still fun. I even won the class one of the times... (which never happened in the Subaru - because there are so many of them there usually much more powerful than the one I was driving). http://www.oregonrally.com/
I haven't but that's something I'd like to get into one day! Btw, one of my friends has a modified RX8. These cars accelerate so fast off the line! It's not an RX7 but still a beast of a car.
I am not an RX8 fan. They feel very surgical when you drive them. Not a lot of sense of drama. I like cars that make more noise and keep you more involved. They have fantastic chassis feel - but the engine is too subdued to me. The best Mazda, overall, imho - is an early Miata with manual steering. Not the fastest cars around - but so much fun to flick around.
Actually, I think the new Mazdaspeed3 is a great car. I've driven one and the way it accelerates it reminds of of the RX7. It's a shame Lotus didn't stick with this concept design:
Holden Commodore This is a really nice Australian car that has a bit of speed behind it (V8). I think it's marketed as a Pontiac G-something (in America) but it looks a bit different and doesn't have the V8 (I believe).
The Esprit was built for very small people, the ergonomics inside are just atrocious. Some of these cars look great but make very little sense when you try driving them hard - because they never thought about "normal sized" people building them. I am 6'1'' and I have had no problems getting into many small cars and driving them hard - including my own Birkin which was was much smaller, physically, than the Esprit and so narrow that I could never drive it with anything more than a t-shirt - but the interior of the Esprit was designed by a sado-masochist - it is just bad. I believe that the good people at Car & Driver once described it as "the gearshift falls naturally to elbow"...
That's the pontiac G8. Just different badging. I'm not really a big fan of hatchbacks but this Rieger edition R32 is sick: R32: King of all hatchbacks
Hatchbacks are really popular in England right now and you'll see this car quite a lot. Ford Focus is another one.
Did he work in a Circus as one of these elastic girls that can put their legs backward over their head?
The R32 is huge in Europe. Rieger is a German company that makes custom body kits for VW's (as well as Porsche) This VW Sciorocco is only available in Europe.
Thanks. (If it's aimed at my old car instead of the VW). I like it. Cheap, reliable, good steering feel, can take the kids in the back-seat and I like the way they look as well. I love driving RWD cars. Other than my wife's cars (AWD) and that Citroen I owned - I never owned anything that was not RWD.
