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Volvoman37

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alright, my buddy drives a nice blue Mazda RX-8, and he thinks its the best thing ever. so i told him we'd have to race, just to see how my car stacked up.

first race ended up being from a 35mph roll, and we were door to door to roughy 80mph. i was pretty suprised, i thought those htings had more go than a grocery getter :tee hee:

second race was at a light, full on, my power braking, he was revved to about 4k (he says) and bam, off the line, i pulled ahead immediately. his front bumper was at my rear bumper till about 60mph, when we had to slow to turn.

of course, he began ranting about how his car isnt a straight line car, and how if we "added some twisties to the race", he'd have blown me out of the water, but we know the truth. the truth is... the wagon can nevar lose! :ph34r::ph34r:

on a side note, those cars are rated and a pathetically low torque number, which would explain the jump i had on him, but still, staying door to door with a "sports car" of sorts is pretty exciting for me.

:D

-Brendan

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there are two version available here in europe afaik. one has ~195 and the other ~230 bhp. Am i right?

so if that one was the 195 version then its obvious you beat it.

As for the torque: Dont forget its a rotary engine (Wankel) which generates its power by reving like mad (up to 10k i heard?)

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