I am a little puzzled. I had thought the on-paper specs for RX8 was quite impressive.
But on 2 separate occasions, I managed to thrash the RX8 by quite a ridiculous margin up to 150kph. Both RX8 drivers were really trying as I could hear their rotaries "wheeeeeing" away, even from distance. Judging from past experience, I would say their straight-line performance was below a 1.6L VTEC Civic. It got really embarrassing for one of them when he tried to stay with me round a 270 slip-road. Suffice to say, RX8 can also cock its inner rear wheel - but not in a good way
What gives? Anybody here driven an RX8 hard? Is their real world straight-line performance much worse than claimed specs?