Mazda RX-8

 Mazda RX-8 is a Japanese sports car manfactured by Mazda company in 2002. This car was the successor of mazda RX-7. It had rotary engine which got very famous because jets also used to have rotary engines. This beautiful car was designed by Ikuo maeeda. The body type of this sports car is Quad coupe with front mid engine and rear wheel drive. This car had a huge demand due to which mazda had to produce around 192 thousand units. Its engine was known as wankel rotary which was 1300cc but due to its rotary engine it was able to produce 200 above horsepower with just 1300cc. It had 4 seats and had very different door opening style which was known as freestyle doors. This sports car had 50:50 front rear weight distribution  

DIMENSIONS:

This sports car had 2703mm wheelbase with the length of 4.425mm. All the models which were produced after 2008 had the length of 4470mm. The width of this car was 1770mm while the height of this car was 1340mm. The weight of this car was 1373kg while the automatic variant had 1384kg

RX-8 Variants:

• RX 8 had many different variants such as  6 speed manual which produced 232 horsepower at 8250 rpm. This model was known as TYPE S in japan

• 5 speed manual which had the capacity of producing 189 horsepower and the redline of the rpm was also reduced to 7500rpm  

• 6 speed automatic which had paddle shifters as well so it could be enjoyed in manual mode as well. This variant was able to produce 212 horsepower  with the redline at 7500 rpm. All the automatic versions had lesser horsepower because of lack of availability of transmissions what could be reliable for higher rpm limits  

KURO VARIANT:

 In 2007 mazda introduced a new variant of the car. This variant was known as limited edition model because only 500 units were made by mazda. All the 500 cars had black sparkling paint with beautiful rims which had the size of 18  inch. This kuro model had 6 speed manual transmission which was able to produce 227 horsepower. Further more this car had few extra features in it as well such as black leather interier , bose premium sound system which had a 6 cd auto changer as well. Now coming towards comfort , to enhance the comfort of this variant mazda had given heated seats with an electronic drivers seat with cruise control, traction control, dynamic stability control.  Furthermore the safety was also improved as mazda gave 8 airbags as well.   This model also had fully adjustable front and rear suspension , a bigger exhaust as well, fog lights , improved cooling system and LSD

  

AWARDS WON BY RX8 :

Mazda rx8 won 37 international motoring awards as well as in 2003 this car was known as The car of the year. This sports car was also named in car and driver magazines. It was also awarded the editors choice award by Grassroots motorsports in 2003