Faults:

Wheel nuts starting to show signs of corrosion.

Gear lever knob has come loose after purchasing optional 2 tone leather base and illuminated knob.

General Comments:

Turn of speed most welcome when needed and brings smile to face doing it.

Cabin layout very pleasing.

Xenon lights are excellent for fast night driving.

Seats aren't up to German standards and can be a bit uncomfortable during long trips.

But that's typical of other sporty Japanese seats.

Dip stick could be in a more practical location with regards to frequent use.

Faults:

Nothing has gone wrong so far.

General Comments:

This car really is unique, and is difficult to compare to others... as they don't even come close!

First off... the looks of the RX8 are beautiful, a real head turner.

The best thing about the RX8 is the Renesis Rotory engine, having only 3 moving parts it is extremely silky smooth at any RPM (you often have to check what RPM your doing) and is Very quick, oh and sounds like nothing else.

Now the interior...

The bose sound system is amazingly clear, the leather seats are extremely comfortable, SatNav not only looks brilliant, but is very clever, you could easily compare this car to a lexus for build quality/ comfort and looks great.

This car will not only outrun most cars on the road, but will certainly out-handle prety much anything.

You only need to look at the RPM meter to realize your in a real sports car going up to 10k rpm! You really feel the power when you go above 4k RPM and will be pushed back into your seat when you reach 9k, then your reminded by a nice Beep to change gear. The Gearbox is silky smooth and has a short throw lever.

If I have to mention any bad points about the car it would be:

Fuel consumption (200 miles a tank average)

Oil consumption - you need to check and maybe top up the oil every 2 tanks of petrol

Not much torque below 3-4k RPM.

If you want a true sports car then nothing comes close to this unique car with a science degree on wheels!

Faults:

The ABS was not working the day I picked my car up.

Then 2 days later the electric seats stopped working.

Then a week after that the radio started smoking then blew itself up.

After only 800 miles the ABS stopped working for the second time.

At 1350 miles the Air-con Stopped working.

General Comments:

This car was the biggest heap of rubbish that I have ever owned.

That is why I bought the car for over £20,000 and sold it to some boy racer for almost half that. Hope that he Kills it quickly.

The car looked great from the outside. It was a real head turner. But I didn't, but it just for people to look at it I wanted to be able to enjoy driving it too.

To top all of this off when I got to know my local dealer in Surrey, (As you do when your car spends so much time there) he tried to make out that it was the way that I was driving my car that was causing it to go wrong.

When I asked the guy if he was joking he said no because he had never known a RX8 to go wrong before.

(What fantastic customer service)

I Wished that I had never laid eyes on the car and had kept my 2002 Honda S2000, That car had done almost 90,000 miles and had owned it from new and it never once let me down.