Yes. Nothing else like a rotary from an Rx8. Leaking seals, and premixing fuel until 50k miles when that absolutely shit Renesis 13b quits. And it's not even a coupe That's another lie. It's got suicide doors making it a 4 door. Cool car terrible engine.
Yes. Nothing else like a rotary from an Rx8. Leaking seals, and premixing fuel until 50k miles when that absolutely shit Renesis 13b quits. And it's not even a coupe That's another lie. It's got suicide doors making it a 4 door. Cool car terrible engine.
Most will hate the RX-8 simply for it's lack of straight line get up and go, but think of it as what it exactly is, an NC miata with a beefier chassis and a far better engine instead of the pathetic NA ford duratrash they put in the actual NC, then you'll realize it's a fantastic and surprisingly practical and very well balanced sports car. For the money spent you WILL NOT find anything that comes close to an RX-8 in terms of performance as they can be purchased very cheap thanks to the poor reputation that the series 1 (2003-2008 models) brought on and carried over to the genuinely reliable series 2 (2009-2012 models) and the closest you'll find to it in terms of stock vs stock performance is in the AP1 and AP2 Honda S2000 making almost the exact same HP and torque as a 6 port RX-8, but the F20 engine's potential far exceeds that of a renesis both NA and with FI making it the more popular option and much more expensive as a result. In the end if you want a great handling sports car that's loads of fun for literally pennies on the dollar a series 2 RX-8 is a great fit (although you do need to do a bit of research on owning a rotary before hand, otherwise you may run into issues fairly quick)
Or you can just buy the RX with a worn off rotary for even less and swap an LS/JZ/K20/N54 inside. The engine bay is actually spacious, it will fit a V12 if you find one.
@@ws6705 you are right if u do the swap at neighbour garage thats not true if proper shop will do the swap... got 1jz+r154(fully forged 940hp) with few small modifications to front, firewall moved back and proper engine mounts placement my rx8 has 51/49 with with exact tsame weight center even tho i6 engine is taller... magic of physics... mix of d1 and d2 susp is just iceing on the cake... so id say you are more wrong than right ;]
@@sarmatiancougar7556 Unfortunately that will fuck with the weight distribution, and thus throws off a good portion of the handling for the car. K swaps are definitely popular though no doubt about that. But take a look at an Rx8 with a clean engine bay (all the unnecessary bits removed/reorganized to be less visible) the engine is ridiculously far back in the engine bay, to the point where its very nearly a front biased mid-engine car, which is part of why it handles so well... So while you can definitely swap a K series of anything else in there (lord knows the engine bay can fit it, once again Mazda nailed the engine bay sizing, GOD I LOVE MAZDA!) it will, unfortunately, detract at least somewhat from the handling since there's no way your fitting anything else but a rotary in that specific placement.
I had an '08 RX8. Red, manual. It wasn't the fastest thing out there but man it was a great car. The boot was surprisingly capable - even with a spare tyre bolted up under the parcel shelf I could comfortably fit a large suitcase in there, or even my golf clubs and an overnight bag. And yeah it wasn't lightning fast but there was something about the feel of the car through the steering wheel sitting low down in those seats that still gave you the sense of speed. Man it was an enjoyable vehicle to drive. Unique enough on our roads that it somehow still turned heads. Aside the constant fear of "is the rotary going to let go *this* drive?" it always put a smile on my face... sadly had to trade it in on an SUV when the kids came... despite technically having four doors and ISOFIX in the back seats it somehow still wasn't "a family car" :D
@@user-mi2hf7me4r i miss that sense of speed of an rx8... i made huge mistake got another car (1k hp daily) after some time i got my rx8 back and it wasnt the same:( she lost her charm so i swapped engine got 940hp and its more fun but still not the same... instead of chilling behind the wheel on redline having fun sliding/drifting every turn/corner in my city while i go to work with huge smile on my face - im in constant unease cuz... u know... u need to redline all the time 200hp 900hp 1.2k... you know... this is the way...
Nah since I saw the movie I noticed they had 90s american muscle lines an aesthetics assigned to japanese cars which made it look weird if you knew the culture bacl then.
RX-8 most of them are popular back then. RE Amemiya used this car as tuning car for street tuning enter on Tokyo Auto Salon 2012 and Drifting in D1 Grand Prix from 2011 to 2014 round 1 Fuji international Speedway with Rotary Turbo 550 horsepower.
Just recently watched Tokyo Drift with the original english synchro. The movie is better than I had in mind and it was a great hommage to car enthusiasts all around the world.
As an RX-8 owner, I'd say these cars are underrated and faster then people think. No I'm not saying these cars are fast, just faster then people would expect, and if taken care of properly, decently reliable
1 thing ill always love about RX8's: they're dirt cheap and have never shot up in value like most JDM cars have and they're still fantastic looking cars
A Itasha livery would of been clean as hell. I didn’t mind the design they went with on the RX8 it was one of the less offensive stylistic designs and didn’t look bad. Be cool to get a movie down the road that stays on the focus of street racing, attacking corners, and seeing who can cross a finish line first. Definitely not the FF franchise anymore if it ever was
Everyone has their opinion but being an owner of an FD rx7 and an Rx8 I do find the RX8 a better & more raw and pure track car with a superior chassis The NA renesis 13B can be tuned towards 220HP at the wheels with good compression and breathing which is more than enough for a NA lightweight car. For Neelas turbo rx8 to only have 190hp it must of had terrible compression after the movie thrashing and/or tuning was not ideal…..
My main thing is I'm surprised Universal didn't try to go with more jdm tuners. Like Top Secret, MiNE's, Spoon, and such. Because I honestly would of loved seeing one of Top Secret's Gold Pearl cars.
When those RX-8 cars came out I test drove one. I also looked at Mazdaspeed Protege, Subaru STI, 350Z, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, Honda S2000 and the Acura RSX Type S. I ended up Choosing a 2001 Volvo V40 which I was able to modify into the 260hp range for under $6k including the car itself.
I find it odd that even with crazy good handling, the RX-8 was looked down upon for looks and lack of turbos. The Miata has been around for decades but people eventually caught on and now it’s a meme. I can’t help but root for the same to happen for the RX-8 (even though it’s a bitch to keep running from what I’ve heard). Also, I think it might’ve been less intricate and less costly (along with possibly being less cringeworthy) to have just the lines and shapes on the cars. You’d either have to license the anime in question to appear as a wrap on a car or commission an original one which probably wouldn’t be cool with Universal execs that didn’t see much point in doing anything different from what they’ve already been doing in earlier films. Was itasha wrapping even big way back in 2006? Regardless, it would’ve been hella cool to see.
It's unfortunate that the changes in laws forced Mazda to lose the turbo. Because the RX-8 is (imo) gorgeous in terms of looks, especially due to its super unique door design. The fortunate side is, they're dirt cheap, even to this day. Which is great for people like me that only now are getting into cars and almost all JDM cars that are popular are inflated in prices beyond imagination.
I used to have an RX8 and I would definitely have it over the FD. It's the most reliable rotary and it's faster in the corners. The gas mileage was great for daily driving and the shifting was tight and close. The only reason the RX8 would ever lose to an FD is if the FD had professional level chassis and suspension upgrades.
I’ve owned both an FD Rx7 and a s1 Rx8, and I can say without doubt the the rx8 is the better drivers car...no piston engine comes close to the sound or the feel of the NA rotary! Sounds like Neena’s rx8 lost some compression during filming!
It isn't this somewhat of a phenomenon?... Oh this well designed firm tight lightweight even perfectly balanced chassis but with a lackluster powertrain from the factory with the intention of the aftermarket doing the rest of the work, it'll sell like a hot cake even though reviews will be poor from the enthusiasts who thought it was a Tokyo Typhoon straight out the box. Miata, FRS, S2K, NSX, RX8, etc all wonderful platforms but never with enough power to satisfy the consumer, as if the average driver could handle the power that they want but they're never content with.
@@ThreeDaysOfDan a well-balanced driver's car is meant to amplify the driver's skill, how they can manipulate it around with precision, people forget a balanced frame needs a balanced power train, too much power and it's unrealistic, unreliable and limits applications. Plus throwing excess amounts of power in a production vehicle increases the production costs, liability and insurance. There's a reason why muscle cars were marketed under their power band, and it takes more skill to drive a slow car fast than it does a fast car slow anyhow, especially on the street when no one should be exceeding the speed limit now 🤔🤫
Honestly love my black 03 RX8 with AEM intake and x-force headers and x-force stainless exhaust. But don't buy one because that leaves more for me! I would describe the RX8 as a large go-kart that makes all the right noises and hangs on around corners. Don't forget the engine that everyone complains about won multiple engine awards, what other NA 1.3l makes over 230hp?
I remember seeing a Shinka Edition in Black Cherry at a dealership, and when I went to look under the hood I see engraved by some mad person "SHOULD HAVE STAYED WITH YOUR EX!" :0 .. But I love the RX8, wouldn't mind owning one! Good review!
Hey Craig, love your videos. Can you do your foreign viewers a favor though and slow down those subtitles or notes or whatever you want to call them. I had to pause or rewind the video a ton of times because by the time i really saw them or started reading they already started fading so fast that especially if english isnt your first language, its kinda rough. As the fast fam is international, Im sure theres people even slower than me that will have even bigger problems. In your other videos I never felt that issue as much. Thanks in advance. :)
I love the mention of the anime influenced styling. It's called itasha and it definitely sould have been in the film. It's unfair there was no sequal cause there's so much more to japan car culture like the wangan
I know im in the absolute minority, but in my opinion the Rx8 looks even better than the rx7. Both are beautiful but the rx8 to me just looks a tiny bit better.
Thanks for a fair assessment of my beloved RX8. Owned mine for 17 years and still going strong. But, I get that they aren't a car that appeals to most. That's ok. Also, thanks for being better than the usual, "Hur, Dur, Apex Seals LOL" comments most of the internet resorts to because they can't name any other parts.
I had a RX8 once....i went through 4 transmission before I decided to modify it with a T56 and 3 rotor small twin turbo. Made around 425 hp and 400 lbs torque and revs until 10.5k rpm
So. By complete coincidence. My veilside rep car has a GReddy turbo kit sitting in the shelf, and I did try running a Tanabe Medallion exhaust in it but it was too quiet for me. 😅 And I never actually realized this car had a veilside kit.
Good video. I REALLY hope that you kick down and do an Isuzu I-Mark vid. That was also my first car ('89 RS hatchback) and I would like to see some professional representation. Thanks for the great content.
Ahaha I remember they were filming at the Hawthorne mall, there used to be meets at the plaza, and we would hear the tires screeching….we would try to sneak a peak at the bottom parking area where they had set up
I thought it was funny he mentioned “hachi roku” for a substitute to the eclipse spider, but then bashes the rx8 for having an “anemic 200hp”. The eight six was not a fast car, it was primarily a car that handled, same as rx-8. Original rx7 was never meant to be a bruiser, it was built as a fun spirited car, their z was the one with the bigger motor, that car has always been about handling.
I hate how people only think of straight lines and how fast a car goes. These are the people that wipe out on corners because they can't truly drive a car.
I was working for a Mazda dealership when the RX8 first came out. I remember Mazda saying the RX8 had way more HP than it really had. Later it was found out by car enthusiast magazines. In the end Mazda recognized their mistake and let anyone who ordered the vehicle a100% money back under some circumstances if I remember correctly
You're going to have to prove this. Never heard of this before for the manual transmission. The highest HP rating Mazda gave was 238HP which later was actually detuned to 232HP then the 2nd Gen had a refresh of 237HP.
5:45 Wasn't the movie made before the itasha fad, though? Seems like I remember it catching shortly after the third movie, but not before. Personally, I would've liked to have seen some of the more famous demo cars of the time make cameo appearances in the movie, and maybe even some tuning shops (Abflug, Top Secret, RE Amemiya, MCR, etc.) famous tuners themselves like Smokey Nagata or Amemiya-san. I remember "Spo-com" style became a thing in Japan following the third movie. As for the RX-8, I remember Sport Compact Car got their hands on the Tokyo Drift movie cars. As for the RX-8 it had a lot of problems, they weren't able to do much to test the car and I think they said it was in limp mode. From what I understand that car was soon to be crushed afterward as it was a JDM vehicle that would've been impractically expensive to ship outside the US. I don't know how many examples of the movie cars still survive, but I imagine most of them were destroyed as they were Japan-market cars under 25 to conform to US law.
Nah the itasha car was well before tokyo drift however it didnt catch on here in america or other places until after the movie. Its awesome that these cars are being accepted nowadays.
i actually loved the paint scheme of Neela's RX-8 the car was ombre Black and Sky Blue. Personally i'd say she had the best looking car in the movie along to Shawn's EVO. Until i saw Neela's RX-8 i had never really liked Mazda cars. Granted i was only 6 when Tokyo Drift came out, but i Didn't really like Dom's RX-7 in the first movie cause of the rim's and there was too much red, and i didn't like the RX-7 in 2 Fast 2 Furious cause of the detailing and bodykit if there was one. however It's only fair to the RX-7 to admit that I genuinely don't like the how the Stock RX-7 looks, and the only reals reason i like Hans RX-7 is because Han was the one driving it as well as that veilside wide body kit which basically fixed everything i didn't like about the stock RX-7. But RX-7 is a monster on black top and track, for everything i dislike about the RX-7 i have to bow my head in respect cause the RX-7 can run circles around my favorite Tuner the Gen 2 Mitsubishi Eclipse
Im not a car person but my personal top 3 favorite of the Fast and Furious franchise are 3. Neela's Rx8 2. DK's 350z 1. Han's Rx7 (I actually got a 1/32 scale of this one today)
Seen most of your videos and still waiting for the Lightning. Yes, its was used for a parts runner truck.... that Paul Walker ended up crashing... but as a Lightning owner, I can tell you, that truck is sooooo much more than just a shop truck.
I daily drove my 87 rx7 for 6 years. Then daily drove a 04 rx8 for 6 years. I felt like I was at home and could take my kids to daycare. I ended up getting a regular daily and still have the 7. Kinda wish I didn’t let my dad and wife talk me into dumping the 8. It was a fun family car.
Because it wasn’t in the script simply because it wasn’t necessary to the story. The story was Brian trying to catch the bad guys. It didn’t matter what cars were racing at Race Wars.
My first car was a RX8 shinka in black cherry and it’s currently being fitted with a better engine. Would also like to know about the white mustang in furious 6.
I never really got it, I get that you like rocket speed, but the rx8 is loved all over the world, noone heard anyone complain about them, they're plenty fast, you just have the luxury of having fast cars.
people seem to dislike this paintjob, but personally i don't think it is bad, it is not great, but it is really not bad, if instead of the light blue they went the same darker blue for the front and the lines on the back i thinkit would look a bit better.
