zvezdah1 said:
Imp,
After what they've done with the Rx-8 you'd trust em to do a decent job on an rx7??
Yep.
Beauty is in the eye of the 'beer-holder'. I've talked to people that think the elise is a butt-ugly car too.
Heck, I drive a bug-eye WRX wagon, the car that turned off many fans of the car around the world... so much so they re-designed the front fascia in two years... 2 YEARS!
Can you tell I don't care about looks? That's not why I would buy a car. I like the performance aspect of them. From the inside of the car, I'm not looking at the grille, the side profile, or the rear of the car.... I'm looking at the road. A car is what you make it. If you want to stand in your garage and admire it as a work of art, go right ahead. While you do that, I'll be out driving in it and I could give 2-shits if someone thinks it's sexy or hideous.
After putting an RX-8 through some paces (in an autox environment), I actually throughly enjoyed it's handling characteristics. It had 'adequate' power to sling the car around cones and it did very well. Now put out a real two door, bump the HP up through some kind of forced induction, beef up the tranny a bit more, keep the handling the same... and you have a new RX-7.
