Originally posted by Ryde _Or_Die
If it performed like it was supposed to from the factory it wouldn't be much faster. Yet people wouldn't call it "slow" then because there wouldn't be all this drama surrounding it.
I'd still call it slow.
I really think the biggest problem with the RX8 is that people expect it to be the new version of the RX7 because the name is incremental. The reality is that the RX7 was very light and small and the RX8 is failry heavy and large. By making a very different car and using a very similar name, they've clouded their branding. I think mazda would have been better served by calling it the RS1 or RXS1 (S for sedan).