RX-8s are turds. Don't care, manual or automatic. Just like Neon SRT4s. Not matter how much you polish a turd, it's still a turd. Those new RENESIS motors are total junk. You get a 2nd gen RX7 and you have a beast out of the box. That's why those command such high prices even today almost 15-20 years later.

Before someone jumps on me, I meant the twin turbo RX-7. Those rotary motors really eat up boost.

Some kid came in the shop early winter this year. He said that he's pushing 35 psi of boost. DOn't know or care, but when the shop foreman drove me around in it, I felt like I was in NASA's Barony Chair.

Holy hell!!!