Turbo on RX-8

[Nutsid]

Perhaps it is just me, but I feel that newer cars aren't worth tuning. I mean, twenty years ago if a car did a 14 second quarter mile out of the box, it was damn near super car status. I don't know about any of you, but honestly, racing the STi from stop light to stop light just isn't fun to me.

I'm blessed with windy roads all around me. It is all pretty flat, but taking country roads semi quick will always be more fun than just going fast, and the Rx8 does that remarkably well.

I understand that people are always going to want to go faster, and be faster than such and such car and so and so. I just don't see the Rx8 as the car to really do it in. When I drive the car it doesn't even feel like a sports car until I really want it to be. It feels more like a regular car. It doesn't stir emotions in me that other sports cars I've owned have (I don't like FC's, but even they stir more of a sports car feel in me than the Rx8). The Rx8 just feels like it was made to be too comfortable while maintaining the sports car characteristics. A sports car like no other because it is almost the perfect blend of comfort, practicality, and a sports car.

It makes it sound like I don't like the Rx8 at all, but its quite the opposite. I love the car. It just isn't a pure sports car to me, which makes me feel like it is worthless to turbocharge, or modify to any great deal. The car is a blend of everything, and it does it perfectly well. Modifying one just takes away that balance a bit too much in my mind.

Now that goes without saying that in ten years I'd probably be more than willing to pick up another Rx8, turbocharge the bastard, and modify it like any true sports car, but that is when parts will be significantly cheaper, and the only practical rotary to modify will be an Rx8 (FB's will be like Rx3's are now, and FC's will be like FB's now, etc. etc.)