Take a look at Consumers' latest guide: RX*8 lower than ave, S2000 better than ave repair history. Not that they are the most difinative source on everything, but the best we are going to see outside of the factory.

 

rx8 is for girls

 

....and stupider. It's amazing; there seems to be no bottom to the depth of the idiocy some members (oops, I mean "guests") can display, and it gets nothing but worse as older S2000s get cheaper and cheaper. Oh, well....

 

Never drove one. Likely never will. But the concept of a sports car that Daddy can cart the little ones around in seems pretty smart to me. Those back seats will definitely fit the little ones. So Daddy doesn't have to completely give up on having his fun car.

 

You fail at posting.

 

If the kid is as good at driving as he is at making informative posts, he can come to one of our autocrosses with his Silverstone, and I'll kick his butt in an RX8, then do it again in a Miata. Then to add insult to injury, I'll have my 19 year old daugher do the same.

 

There's a guy in my auto-x club that usually captures FTD in his RX-8 until the SS cars show up. They're great cars and ignorant posts really just highlight how clueless and close-minded some people are.

 

Well said: the RX8 is the closest vehicle to an S2000 sedan (except for the fuel economy).

I'll toss this out there: both the S2000 and RX8 do not have direct competition in their price segment. The S2000 has performance targets that do not match its price range. The RX8 is a unique combination of features that has no real equivalent. As a result, comparisons to either are going to be a mismatch, and whether one is a bargain and the other is overpriced will be very different based on the buyer's priorities.

 

[QUOTE=Saki GT,Dec 24 2007, 02:23 AM]There's a guy in my auto-x club that usually captures FTD in his RX-8 until the SS cars show up.

 

I actually like the ride quality (comfort) of the RX8 much better than the S2000, and the RX8 doesn't give up a thing in the handling department to achieve the improved ride. I enjoy the harshness of the S2000 (which is why I have an early AP1), but I have to believe that people who think the RX8 is a boat have never actually driven one. Frankly, my first exposure (on an autocross course at a Zoom Zoom Live event) was a very pleasant surprise. Mazda did good ... again.