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Ultra Clean 40th Anniversary Limited Edition - 23,900 Miles on 2040-cars

Year:2008 Mileage:23950 Color: with a Cosmo Red leather interior evoking its Cosmo Sport heritage
Location:

Mesa, Arizona, United States

Mesa, Arizona, United States

2008 RX-8 40TH ANNIVERSARY
Commemorating an Automotive Legend
Forty years ago, Mazda accomplished an engineering feat that has yet to be repeated. Now after more than 1.96 million vehicles sold worldwide, Mazda is commemorating its rotary engine with the release of the 2008 RX-8 - 40th Anniversary Edition*. This very distinctive sports car has never been more exceptional. 

  • Exclusive Metropolitan Gray Mica exterior with a Cosmo Red leather interior evoking its Cosmo Sport heritage, Mazda's first production rotary engine.
  • Unique floor mats, interior door trim and heated front leather seats with an 8-way power driver's seat.
  • 40th Anniversary Rotary Engine emblem is featured proudly on the side panels.
  • Exclusive 18-inch highly reflective Dark Silver chrome aluminum wheels, blue- tinted fog lights and a 40th Anniversary Rotary Engine emblazoned, silver-colored engine cover.
  • Bose® 9-speaker 300-watt sound system with in-dash 6-CD changer.
  • Signature 1.3L RENESIS 6-port rotary engine with 232-hp† MT boasts a stunning, unmatched 9000-rpm redline; 212-hp‡ AT also available.
  • Sport-tuned suspension with Bilstein® dampers, exclusively designed for this limited-edition RX-8 - 40th Anniversary Edition, provides sharp handling and precise control.
  • Urethane foam-filled front suspension cross member ideally suppresses the engine's vibrations, delivering high-quality Zoom-Zoom steering.
  • Mileage City/Hwy (mpg) 16/22 MT, 16/23 AT‡.
* Limited availability to 1000 units.

OTHER TASTEFUL MODIFICATIONS:
  • Borla Performance Exhaust 
  • Mazdaspeed Factory Cold Air Intake
  • K&N Air Filter
  • Factory neoprene seat cover(s) - 2
  • Red ambient interior lights
Phenomenal Handling Car - Placed 3rd in America's Best Handling Car Contest

In 2008 Motor Trend Magazine featured an article entitiled America's Best Handling Car:

Listen to Pobst: "In the purest sense of a sports car, the rear-drive RX-8 is the most satisfying through corners. I felt like it was a glove on my hand. I could put it right where I wanted. Extremely well balanced, easy to drift, unfettered by weight. The all-wheel-drive cars tend to understeer, and then when they do break loose it's a big event and a lot happens. In the RX-8, on the other hand, things happen a little bit at a time. It's just so much fun to drive." Pobst's words only reinforce our own: Big handling numbers are instructive and meaningful, but they often tell you nothing about the actual experience of driving a car, how it "feels." Though underpowered and under-tired compared with other entries here, the RX-8 has grace and fluidity and balance like few other sports cars on the market today. "The more powerful cars feel like riding a horse," Pobst says. "The RX-8 feels like wings bolted right to your arms."

Read more: http://www.motortrend.com/features/performance/112_0810_americas_best_handling_car_track_testing/#ixzz341zd20wj


Alert:  Warranty on RX-8 Engines extended to 8 years

RX-8 Rotary Engine Core Limited Warranty Extension
Mazda Motor Corporation is extending the warranty coverage on Rotary Engine Core Components on all RX-8 vehicles produced after the 2004 model year.
The warranty coverage for the Rotary Engine Core Components is extended to 8 years (96 months) from the original warranty start date, with a 100,000 mileage limitation. The following is a list of components covered by this warranty:

Rotary Engine Core
  • Rotary Housing and Internal Parts
  • Internal Seals and Gaskets

Why am I selling?:

I purchased this car with 5000 miles from the original owner and drive it periodically.  I also have a 2000 911 Carrera and enjoy driving this car as much as the Porsche.  I just purchased another BMW on Ebay and need to make room, and decided it time to sell it.  It's been in a climate controlled 5 car garage and is in excellent shape.  Please contact me with any questions.  This is an amazing car at a bargain price.  No better BANG FOR THE BUCK.  Period.

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At present, over 90 percent of all new vehicles sold in the United States today are equipped with event data recorders, more commonly known as black boxes. If the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gets its way, that already high figure will swell to a full 100 percent in short order.
Such automotive black boxes have been in existence since the 1990s, and all current Ford, General Motors, Mazda and Toyota vehicles are so equipped. NHTSA has been attempting to make these data recorders mandatory for automakers, and according to The Detroit News, the White House Office of Management Budget has just finished reviewing the proposal, clearing the way. Now NHTSA is expected to draft new legislation to make the boxes a requirement.
One problem with current black boxes is that there's no set of standards for automakers to follow when creating what bits of data are recorded, and for how long or in what format it is stored. In other words, one automaker's box is probably not compatible with its competitors.

Mazda poaches designer Kevin Rice back from BMW

Wed, 30 Oct 2013

Kevin Rice left Mazda a baker's dozen years ago, but now he's back.
A graduate of the Transportation Design program at Coventry University (just across town from Jaguar headquarters), Rice worked his way up in the industry working for the likes of Opel and Italdesign Giugiaro before landing a job at Mazda. Between 1995 and 2000, he collaborated on such projects as the RX-8 and the 1999 Neospace concept that previewed the Mazda2 before moving on to BMW, where the new 3 Series and 4 Series were among the last projects he worked on during his 13-year tenure in Munich.
Now back at Mazda, Rice has been named the Japanese automaker's new creative director, charged with further honing the brand's KODO design language from its European headquarters in Oberursel, Germany. We're looking forward to seeing what he and his design team come up with in the coming years.

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The Mazda MX-5 Miata is as popular around the Autoblog offices as Kate Upton posters are around fraternity houses. Few staffers have much criticism for Mazda's ubiquitous roadster, and fewer still aren't overjoyed when one arrives in their driveway. So you can imagine how a report from Auto Express about a more potent MX-5 model is going over in our offices today.
The new model, which was shown in concept form as the Mazda MX-5 GT at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, has a slight catch, though. First, we have absolutely no idea if Mazda will bring the MX-5 GT to the US. Secondly, and perhaps more problematically, this isn't a production car - it's a kit from the team at Jota Sport.
Now, to be fair, the kit doesn't sound like a bad thing. It bumps the UK-spec 2.0-liter, 157-horsepower engine up to 203 hp thanks to a sports exhaust and a revamped ECU (46 horsepower from an ECU and exhaust in a naturally aspirated car?). To make the little Miata even more agile, Jota has also fiddled with the suspension. AE doesn't mention things like the grippy tires or Recaro seats that were found on the concept, though.