Happy foruming everyone. If we don't count fuel consumption and topping up the oil every 3-4k km, are Mazda RX-8s cars that can still break down a lot? Looking now, the S2000 is the equivalent, and compared to that car and given the price difference the RX-8 is much more tempting; I'm already used to high fuel consumption from my own car. I'd be very happy if you could share your knowledge.
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5 repliesMate, if you're not going to do a swap, I'd say don't get into this at all. My take is that it's very hard to find a clean example of this car in Turkey — Doğukan Manço, for instance, bought one recently for a project. I'd say check out his video and the comments too. I recently got an MX-5, it's amazingly fun. I'd say consider it as an alternative.
Translated from TurkishBro, my real target is the MX-5 anyway, but it's well above the RX-8 budget-wise. Thanks for your answer.
Translated from TurkishIt's naturally hard to find a good one at those high mileages. You said you top up oil every 3000-4000 km, but it doesn't work that way — you have to keep checking and topping up the oil constantly anyway, and I think you need to change the oil at 7000 km max, plus change the spark plugs etc. at 15000 km. So unfortunately there's a lot of maintenance cost.
Translated from TurkishThank you.
Translated from TurkishA friend of mine tried to run one but couldn't find a mechanic for it (I'm talking about Kayseri). Other than that, running it on its own engine is very costly, but it's one of the most enjoyable cars you can get for that price if you do it right — you'd keep it in your closed garage for years, take it out once a month and hang out a bit, chill, a bit throttle-happy, it's a great car for that, but in Turkey's conditions taking on those costs isn't easy at all 😐
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