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I've been reading the reviews of the car, and I really am excited about it. First, I think the car looks really awesome, seriously one of the best-looking new automotive designs I have seen in quite a while. Second, it seems to have power characteristics very much like the Honda S2000, although it is obviously bigger and I think about 700 pounds heavier. But I am an avid fan of the idea of a four-doored sports car (i.e. to differentiate between a sports car and a sports sedan a la BMW and many others), and am glad to see that Chrysler is also eyeing this market segment with their Dodge Charger prototype.
Even though my GS-R sedan is giving me some trouble lately, I will be unwilling to part with it to the very end, simply because this is a vastly unfilled market niche, the four-doored sports car. Of course you can always make your own by taking, let's say a 4th or 5th gen. Civic sedan and dropping a B series engine into it, and plus some other go-fast parts, but there are few cars manufactured to be four-doored sports cars.
There is of course a fine, somewhat subjective line separating the four-doored sports car from the sports sedan, which for example is what I consider for example a 328i to be. But the idea of a car, small (say a small compact or a sub-compact) and light (roughly 3,500 lbs or less.. even though the RX-8 tops this amount slightly) enough to retain a sports car's characteristics, yet also with the practicality of having four doors. For one thing, for those of us that get a sports car in our youths, only to be forced into trading them in for a station wagon once kids are added to the picture (I've heard this sad story far too many times), this may offer a saving grace, permitting us to keep our babies.. and our kids as well.
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