This particular RX-8 cost just £650, which is enough to get any hot-blooded car enthusiast excited. Of course, ... If you said it could be as low as 163 hp, you guessed right.

Mated to Mazda’s signature rotary engine is a six-speed manual transmission driving the rear wheels, which leads us to believe that the engine is the 238 hp one, which in the RX-8 was the one ...

The RX-8, which was released in 2003, was the only rotary-powered car on the market between 2003 and its demise this week. Using a 1.3-liter, twin-rotor Renesis engine, it produced 232 hp and had ...

Only one manufacturer was brave enough to drop a Wankel into a pickup truck, it made no sense, but it is now an underrated cult classic.

On the RX-8, Mazda is cursed with a flywheel power rating that's uncomfortably close to that of a dyno veteran's. The Honda S2000 (at least until the 2004 model) is rated 2 hp stronger than the RX ...

The last RX-8 put out 232 hp from a 1.3-liter engine. So they should be able to get a rotary range extender to fit within a tiny footprint. Mazda has toyed around with hydrogen rotary engines in the ...

This 1,100-HP Mazda RX-7 Is More Evidence for V8 Swap Believers. Purists will not like this 1988 FC RX-7. It's got 1,100 horsepower going for it, though. Which is nice. By Danny Choy.

The RX-8 was introduced in 2003 and while production ended in 2012 – at just shy of 200,000 cars – UK sales stopped in 2010 as the car’s high emissions began to hold it back.

Knowing that this would most likely be the last go-around with this car, I snapped a photo of this RX-8 R3 next to my 1994 RX-7 R2. I must say, they look good together. 2011 Mazda RX-8 R3 ...

The RX-8's setup makes it easy to introduce slight lurches into your shifts no matter how good you are with a manual ... 232 hp @ 8,500 rpm, 159 lb-ft @ 5,500 rpm. Curb Weight: 3,065 lb. Fuel ...

See detailed specs, features, packages and dimensions by trim level for the 2009 Mazda RX-8. Opens in new window. Skip to main content. Cars for ... 212.0-hp, 1.3-liter, Rotary engine (Gasoline ...