Best Motoring: RX-8 - Rotary Reborn

Buy This Item Best Motoring: RX-8 - Rotary Reborn by Image Entertainment  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 11-26-2008     Start your engines! Due to overwhelming demand, we bring you another best motoring release! X-8 GIANT TEST & BATTLE - With Honda S2000, Nissan Skyline, BMW 330i, Nissan Fairlady Z, Subaru Impreza WRX, Honda Integra Type-R With the introduction of the Cosm Reader Reviews I rarely write reviews. This one I had to do though, to prevent RX-8 enthusiasts and admirers from buying this DVD and getting very disappointed, frustrated if not mad. My main problem is not even the average production quality, bad English subtitling (it's all in Japanese - you can't read it or you can't watch from having to read quickly and continously) or other presentation flaws. Not even the fact that half of the program is about tuned-up nissan z-s and S2000s and has nothing to do with the RX-8. The absoutely frustrating, amateur mistake is that the producers of this show got a stripped-down (pre-production?) version of the RX-8 and they're sending it in the ring with sport-tuned, well-equipped, racetrack-ready cars. Poor RX doesn't even have a rear spoiler (!!) not to mention the lack of other performance-improving parts. I'm not talking about turbo kits and mazdaspeed stuff but basic factory-installed parts. Fair chances? I don't think so. In the first half of the test, they speak highly of the car's handling and feel - which proves how great of a sports car the RX is, even w/o spoilers, etc. Of cousre, it isn't about high torque, it gains advantage by the special characteristics of it's unique rotary engine: extremely high RPM, light weight and small engine size resulting in perfect 50-50 weight distribution and agile handling. Many sports car enthusiasts (including the author of the previous post) don't seem to understand why torque is not needed for fast laptimes if compensated for by the above unique attributes of a Wankel Rotary. You have to change the rules, some just don't apply for a rotary. Anyways, it's really sad to see the unfair competition between a basic RX-8 and the race-ready, well tuned and equipped cars. Even the otherwise obviously slower RSX passes the otherwise categories-higher Mazda driven by the test team's noticably least experienced driver - it's like testing the newest HDTV against similar and lower models but feeding it with video from an old VHS w/ mono sound. Pretty unfair test, quite misleeding results. To see a realistic, true documentary on the capabilities of a 6-speed, at least fairly euqipped RX-8, good tests and real races, I suggest searching the net for free video files.

Best Motoring: RX-8 - Rotary Reborn Available from Amazon Price: $9.99 Updated on 11-26-2008.

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