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Originally Posted by drunken monkey
i'm not sure if that's important.
the point is, everyone was expecting an RX-7 replacement.
They could shout about how it isn't that until they are (innocent) blue in the face, it won't change the fact that people expected something different to what they ended up doing. The fact that the resulting car is more family orientated and not of the hard-core sports/GT car that they wanted only goes to increase the disappointment.
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You're right, a lot of people did expect an RX-7 replacement. However, I don't judge a car based on its predecessor, I judge it based on how good of a car it is - and I'm very glad that Mazda didn't, either. Even though the RX-8 loses to the RX-7 in performance (though not nearly as badly as everyone makes it out to be), it makes up for it in just about every other area. It's thousands cheaper, it seats four comfortably, it has very bearable ride quality, and it even gets better gas mileage. If you were expecting the RX-8 to outperform the RX-7, then the RX-8 is not for you. Fine. But if you totally dismiss the car as junk just because it doesn't, then you're being a little narrow-minded, and need to look at some other aspects of driving. What I expected was an affordable, fun-to-drive sports coupe that could do daily driver duty no problem, and it solidly delivers in all of those areas.