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<blockquote data-quote="DARKHART" data-source="post: 401908" data-attributes="member: 544747"><p>Your numbers are wrong...Having worked for Parkway Mazda-Infiniti when the RX-8 was released, the car was advertised as having 250 hp in the M/T and when tested it was actually around 240 hp, shortly there after Mazda America offerred to buy back any RX-8&#039;s from any owners who felt that they didn&#039;t get there money&#039;s worth in a performance difference of 10 hp.&nbsp; To this day no one has sold their car&#039;s back for this reason.&nbsp; I am no longer with Mazda but I do still have friends that work there.&nbsp; As far as performance goes there&#039;s not many cars in the 25k-33k price range that you can do 98 mph in second gear without tearing something up and this is something that we used to do all the time just to see how well we could get down on it. The fun factor in driving this car is very high.&nbsp; Just wait until they release the 350hp &quot;MazdaSpeed RX-8&quot; it&#039;s going to be off the chain..... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="DARKHART, post: 401908, member: 544747"] Your numbers are wrong...Having worked for Parkway Mazda-Infiniti when the RX-8 was released, the car was advertised as having 250 hp in the M/T and when tested it was actually around 240 hp, shortly there after Mazda America offerred to buy back any RX-8's from any owners who felt that they didn't get there money's worth in a performance difference of 10 hp. To this day no one has sold their car's back for this reason. I am no longer with Mazda but I do still have friends that work there. As far as performance goes there's not many cars in the 25k-33k price range that you can do 98 mph in second gear without tearing something up and this is something that we used to do all the time just to see how well we could get down on it. The fun factor in driving this car is very high. Just wait until they release the 350hp "MazdaSpeed RX-8" it's going to be off the chain..... [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif[/IMG][IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif[/IMG][IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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