I keep hearing that the RX8 is suppose to be such a good handling car. It's been my observation that it doesn't handle slalom / autocross courses very well. It has no grip in the front end. The 2 I've seen try to negotiate an autocross course couldn't make a tight, fast turn. Not impressive @ all. As a matter of fact the 2 that were autocrossing here have not been at the last 2 events. My guess is that they didn't want to humiliate themselves anymore. The Crossfire does very well.