my cousin just got an rx-8, I am confused by the gas mileagefuck....um....what is it...oh yeah 2[Edited on December 31, 2008 at 4:06 PM. Reason : communists]
12/31/2008 4:05:35 PM
They suffer from Bulimia.
12/31/2008 4:06:00 PM
I think its just as bad as my Audi
12/31/2008 4:08:53 PM
i read the rx8 forum for awhile when i was considering buying one. 15mpg = no thanks
12/31/2008 4:20:07 PM
I usually get above 18.
12/31/2008 4:33:09 PM
sweet I get like 13 around town
12/31/2008 4:34:35 PM
pretty bad that my 5000# truck with about the same whp as a stock rx-8 gets about 20mpg avg.
12/31/2008 4:39:05 PM
12/31/2008 5:01:27 PM
Perhaps. I think I have only 9 posts on that forum. My highest was like 19.8 when I drove mostly highway to Greensboro.
12/31/2008 5:36:21 PM
hurley brings up a good point, my cummins will pull over 22 mpg all highway. it seems hard to comprehend a car that size getting such bad milage
12/31/2008 7:30:34 PM
12/31/2008 8:30:55 PM
it was probably just the damn gas cap. but i can clear your code for you if you want to. i love in Falcon Ridge right on Kaplanand despite what they say, the gas mileage is basically the same. I got about 17-18 combined in my nonturbo rx-7 and all the turbo cars I've driven get 15-16 combined if you are easy on it, and 11-13 if you drive it hard around town[Edited on January 1, 2009 at 10:59 AM. Reason : .]
1/1/2009 10:56:39 AM
The rotary may not be the most efficient, but don't compare it to a diesel motor that can't rev past 5k either. Everything is a compromise, however the free revving nature of a rotary in a sports car certainly seems to have merit.
1/1/2009 11:30:53 AM
ITS NO S14 THOUGH AM I RIGHT?
1/1/2009 1:10:28 PM
^^we're just shitting around dudebut it is interesting when you ponder on the 1000rpm useful operating range of an 89-98 cummins 6bt...1500-2500 [Edited on January 1, 2009 at 2:41 PM. Reason : and thankyou my engine wont rev past 2750, currently......]
1/1/2009 2:40:07 PM
^^ /// baby!!
1/2/2009 3:58:31 PM
I personally don't care for too many inline 4 engines, BMW or otherwise.
1/2/2009 5:14:09 PM
^ I guess the 2.5L Forced induced Porsche is the exception here?
1/2/2009 7:25:40 PM
I mean, I can appreciate the engineering that went into splitting the 928's V8 to make that inline 4... /sarcasm.Yes it's a cool engine, but liner-less floating cylinders aren't the toughest and it wasn't exactly rev happy. Porsche is great at taking a bad design, and refining it till it works, sort of. At the time I believe it was the world's highest specific output 4 cylinder, while the 924 GTRs running at lemans shared the same crank and some of the block, and had the least amount of down time (one way to measure reliability for an endurance race car). "Cool", but I'd rather an M50 variant BMW inline 6, or really an LSx from the general, amongst others (flat 6s, obviously, some Subaru motors, etc). As for strictly inline 4 engines from more modest backgrounds, the early 1.6 and subsequent 1.8 liter engines from VW (only the 8 valve stuff) are hard to beat. I don't like too many engines. :/
1/3/2009 4:16:13 AM