Yes. Nothing else like a rotary from an Rx8. Leaking seals, and premixing fuel until 50k miles when that absolutely shit Renesis 13b quits. And it's not even a coupe That's another lie. It's got suicide doors making it a 4 door. Cool car terrible engine.
Yes. Nothing else like a rotary from an Rx8. Leaking seals, and premixing fuel until 50k miles when that absolutely shit Renesis 13b quits. And it's not even a coupe That's another lie. It's got suicide doors making it a 4 door. Cool car terrible engine.
Most will hate the RX-8 simply for it's lack of straight line get up and go, but think of it as what it exactly is, an NC miata with a beefier chassis and a far better engine instead of the pathetic NA ford duratrash they put in the actual NC, then you'll realize it's a fantastic and surprisingly practical and very well balanced sports car. For the money spent you WILL NOT find anything that comes close to an RX-8 in terms of performance as they can be purchased very cheap thanks to the poor reputation that the series 1 (2003-2008 models) brought on and carried over to the genuinely reliable series 2 (2009-2012 models) and the closest you'll find to it in terms of stock vs stock performance is in the AP1 and AP2 Honda S2000 making almost the exact same HP and torque as a 6 port RX-8, but the F20 engine's potential far exceeds that of a renesis both NA and with FI making it the more popular option and much more expensive as a result. In the end if you want a great handling sports car that's loads of fun for literally pennies on the dollar a series 2 RX-8 is a great fit (although you do need to do a bit of research on owning a rotary before hand, otherwise you may run into issues fairly quick)
Or you can just buy the RX with a worn off rotary for even less and swap an LS/JZ/K20/N54 inside. The engine bay is actually spacious, it will fit a V12 if you find one.
@@ws6705 you are right if u do the swap at neighbour garage thats not true if proper shop will do the swap... got 1jz+r154(fully forged 940hp) with few small modifications to front, firewall moved back and proper engine mounts placement my rx8 has 51/49 with with exact tsame weight center even tho i6 engine is taller... magic of physics... mix of d1 and d2 susp is just iceing on the cake... so id say you are more wrong than right ;]
@@sarmatiancougar7556 Unfortunately that will fuck with the weight distribution, and thus throws off a good portion of the handling for the car. K swaps are definitely popular though no doubt about that. But take a look at an Rx8 with a clean engine bay (all the unnecessary bits removed/reorganized to be less visible) the engine is ridiculously far back in the engine bay, to the point where its very nearly a front biased mid-engine car, which is part of why it handles so well... So while you can definitely swap a K series of anything else in there (lord knows the engine bay can fit it, once again Mazda nailed the engine bay sizing, GOD I LOVE MAZDA!) it will, unfortunately, detract at least somewhat from the handling since there's no way your fitting anything else but a rotary in that specific placement.
Nah since I saw the movie I noticed they had 90s american muscle lines an aesthetics assigned to japanese cars which made it look weird if you knew the culture bacl then.
I had an '08 RX8. Red, manual. It wasn't the fastest thing out there but man it was a great car. The boot was surprisingly capable - even with a spare tyre bolted up under the parcel shelf I could comfortably fit a large suitcase in there, or even my golf clubs and an overnight bag. And yeah it wasn't lightning fast but there was something about the feel of the car through the steering wheel sitting low down in those seats that still gave you the sense of speed. Man it was an enjoyable vehicle to drive. Unique enough on our roads that it somehow still turned heads. Aside the constant fear of "is the rotary going to let go *this* drive?" it always put a smile on my face... sadly had to trade it in on an SUV when the kids came... despite technically having four doors and ISOFIX in the back seats it somehow still wasn't "a family car" :D
@@user-mi2hf7me4r i miss that sense of speed of an rx8... i made huge mistake got another car (1k hp daily) after some time i got my rx8 back and it wasnt the same:( she lost her charm so i swapped engine got 940hp and its more fun but still not the same... instead of chilling behind the wheel on redline having fun sliding/drifting every turn/corner in my city while i go to work with huge smile on my face - im in constant unease cuz... u know... u need to redline all the time 200hp 900hp 1.2k... you know... this is the way...
As an RX-8 owner, I'd say these cars are underrated and faster then people think. No I'm not saying these cars are fast, just faster then people would expect, and if taken care of properly, decently reliable
Just recently watched Tokyo Drift with the original english synchro. The movie is better than I had in mind and it was a great hommage to car enthusiasts all around the world.
RX-8 most of them are popular back then. RE Amemiya used this car as tuning car for street tuning enter on Tokyo Auto Salon 2012 and Drifting in D1 Grand Prix from 2011 to 2014 round 1 Fuji international Speedway with Rotary Turbo 550 horsepower.
1 thing ill always love about RX8's: they're dirt cheap and have never shot up in value like most JDM cars have and they're still fantastic looking cars
A Itasha livery would of been clean as hell. I didn’t mind the design they went with on the RX8 it was one of the less offensive stylistic designs and didn’t look bad. Be cool to get a movie down the road that stays on the focus of street racing, attacking corners, and seeing who can cross a finish line first. Definitely not the FF franchise anymore if it ever was
Everyone has their opinion but being an owner of an FD rx7 and an Rx8 I do find the RX8 a better & more raw and pure track car with a superior chassis The NA renesis 13B can be tuned towards 220HP at the wheels with good compression and breathing which is more than enough for a NA lightweight car. For Neelas turbo rx8 to only have 190hp it must of had terrible compression after the movie thrashing and/or tuning was not ideal…..
I find it odd that even with crazy good handling, the RX-8 was looked down upon for looks and lack of turbos. The Miata has been around for decades but people eventually caught on and now it’s a meme. I can’t help but root for the same to happen for the RX-8 (even though it’s a bitch to keep running from what I’ve heard). Also, I think it might’ve been less intricate and less costly (along with possibly being less cringeworthy) to have just the lines and shapes on the cars. You’d either have to license the anime in question to appear as a wrap on a car or commission an original one which probably wouldn’t be cool with Universal execs that didn’t see much point in doing anything different from what they’ve already been doing in earlier films. Was itasha wrapping even big way back in 2006? Regardless, it would’ve been hella cool to see.
It's unfortunate that the changes in laws forced Mazda to lose the turbo. Because the RX-8 is (imo) gorgeous in terms of looks, especially due to its super unique door design. The fortunate side is, they're dirt cheap, even to this day. Which is great for people like me that only now are getting into cars and almost all JDM cars that are popular are inflated in prices beyond imagination.
My main thing is I'm surprised Universal didn't try to go with more jdm tuners. Like Top Secret, MiNE's, Spoon, and such. Because I honestly would of loved seeing one of Top Secret's Gold Pearl cars.
When those RX-8 cars came out I test drove one. I also looked at Mazdaspeed Protege, Subaru STI, 350Z, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, Honda S2000 and the Acura RSX Type S. I ended up Choosing a 2001 Volvo V40 which I was able to modify into the 260hp range for under $6k including the car itself.
Good video. I REALLY hope that you kick down and do an Isuzu I-Mark vid. That was also my first car ('89 RS hatchback) and I would like to see some professional representation. Thanks for the great content.
It isn't this somewhat of a phenomenon?... Oh this well designed firm tight lightweight even perfectly balanced chassis but with a lackluster powertrain from the factory with the intention of the aftermarket doing the rest of the work, it'll sell like a hot cake even though reviews will be poor from the enthusiasts who thought it was a Tokyo Typhoon straight out the box. Miata, FRS, S2K, NSX, RX8, etc all wonderful platforms but never with enough power to satisfy the consumer, as if the average driver could handle the power that they want but they're never content with.
@@ThreeDaysOfDan a well-balanced driver's car is meant to amplify the driver's skill, how they can manipulate it around with precision, people forget a balanced frame needs a balanced power train, too much power and it's unrealistic, unreliable and limits applications. Plus throwing excess amounts of power in a production vehicle increases the production costs, liability and insurance. There's a reason why muscle cars were marketed under their power band, and it takes more skill to drive a slow car fast than it does a fast car slow anyhow, especially on the street when no one should be exceeding the speed limit now 🤔🤫
I’ve owned both an FD Rx7 and a s1 Rx8, and I can say without doubt the the rx8 is the better drivers car...no piston engine comes close to the sound or the feel of the NA rotary! Sounds like Neena’s rx8 lost some compression during filming!
I used to have an RX8 and I would definitely have it over the FD. It's the most reliable rotary and it's faster in the corners. The gas mileage was great for daily driving and the shifting was tight and close. The only reason the RX8 would ever lose to an FD is if the FD had professional level chassis and suspension upgrades.
Hey Craig, love your videos. Can you do your foreign viewers a favor though and slow down those subtitles or notes or whatever you want to call them. I had to pause or rewind the video a ton of times because by the time i really saw them or started reading they already started fading so fast that especially if english isnt your first language, its kinda rough. As the fast fam is international, Im sure theres people even slower than me that will have even bigger problems. In your other videos I never felt that issue as much. Thanks in advance. :)
Honestly love my black 03 RX8 with AEM intake and x-force headers and x-force stainless exhaust. But don't buy one because that leaves more for me! I would describe the RX8 as a large go-kart that makes all the right noises and hangs on around corners. Don't forget the engine that everyone complains about won multiple engine awards, what other NA 1.3l makes over 230hp?
I remember seeing a Shinka Edition in Black Cherry at a dealership, and when I went to look under the hood I see engraved by some mad person "SHOULD HAVE STAYED WITH YOUR EX!" :0 .. But I love the RX8, wouldn't mind owning one! Good review!
I know im in the absolute minority, but in my opinion the Rx8 looks even better than the rx7. Both are beautiful but the rx8 to me just looks a tiny bit better.
Thanks for a fair assessment of my beloved RX8. Owned mine for 17 years and still going strong. But, I get that they aren't a car that appeals to most. That's ok. Also, thanks for being better than the usual, "Hur, Dur, Apex Seals LOL" comments most of the internet resorts to because they can't name any other parts.
Ahaha I remember they were filming at the Hawthorne mall, there used to be meets at the plaza, and we would hear the tires screeching….we would try to sneak a peak at the bottom parking area where they had set up
I love the mention of the anime influenced styling. It's called itasha and it definitely sould have been in the film. It's unfair there was no sequal cause there's so much more to japan car culture like the wangan
So. By complete coincidence. My veilside rep car has a GReddy turbo kit sitting in the shelf, and I did try running a Tanabe Medallion exhaust in it but it was too quiet for me. 😅 And I never actually realized this car had a veilside kit.
I had a RX8 once....i went through 4 transmission before I decided to modify it with a T56 and 3 rotor small twin turbo. Made around 425 hp and 400 lbs torque and revs until 10.5k rpm
Because it wasn’t in the script simply because it wasn’t necessary to the story. The story was Brian trying to catch the bad guys. It didn’t matter what cars were racing at Race Wars.
5:45 Wasn't the movie made before the itasha fad, though? Seems like I remember it catching shortly after the third movie, but not before. Personally, I would've liked to have seen some of the more famous demo cars of the time make cameo appearances in the movie, and maybe even some tuning shops (Abflug, Top Secret, RE Amemiya, MCR, etc.) famous tuners themselves like Smokey Nagata or Amemiya-san. I remember "Spo-com" style became a thing in Japan following the third movie. As for the RX-8, I remember Sport Compact Car got their hands on the Tokyo Drift movie cars. As for the RX-8 it had a lot of problems, they weren't able to do much to test the car and I think they said it was in limp mode. From what I understand that car was soon to be crushed afterward as it was a JDM vehicle that would've been impractically expensive to ship outside the US. I don't know how many examples of the movie cars still survive, but I imagine most of them were destroyed as they were Japan-market cars under 25 to conform to US law.
Nah the itasha car was well before tokyo drift however it didnt catch on here in america or other places until after the movie. Its awesome that these cars are being accepted nowadays.
My first car was a RX8 shinka in black cherry and it’s currently being fitted with a better engine. Would also like to know about the white mustang in furious 6.
I was working for a Mazda dealership when the RX8 first came out. I remember Mazda saying the RX8 had way more HP than it really had. Later it was found out by car enthusiast magazines. In the end Mazda recognized their mistake and let anyone who ordered the vehicle a100% money back under some circumstances if I remember correctly
You're going to have to prove this. Never heard of this before for the manual transmission. The highest HP rating Mazda gave was 238HP which later was actually detuned to 232HP then the 2nd Gen had a refresh of 237HP.
I thought it was funny he mentioned “hachi roku” for a substitute to the eclipse spider, but then bashes the rx8 for having an “anemic 200hp”. The eight six was not a fast car, it was primarily a car that handled, same as rx-8. Original rx7 was never meant to be a bruiser, it was built as a fun spirited car, their z was the one with the bigger motor, that car has always been about handling.
I hate how people only think of straight lines and how fast a car goes. These are the people that wipe out on corners because they can't truly drive a car.
Seen most of your videos and still waiting for the Lightning. Yes, its was used for a parts runner truck.... that Paul Walker ended up crashing... but as a Lightning owner, I can tell you, that truck is sooooo much more than just a shop truck.
Can you do video on what stunts was done by the actors cause paul walker said he did alot of his own stunts and I was always curious about what stunts they did and what stunts was done by the stunt doubles
hey Craig . in the 2 fast 2 furious dvd there was a special feature that would play over the movie showing facts and stuff about the scene and the cars , did you have anything to so with that ?
I daily drove my 87 rx7 for 6 years. Then daily drove a 04 rx8 for 6 years. I felt like I was at home and could take my kids to daycare. I ended up getting a regular daily and still have the 7. Kinda wish I didn’t let my dad and wife talk me into dumping the 8. It was a fun family car.
i actually loved the paint scheme of Neela's RX-8 the car was ombre Black and Sky Blue. Personally i'd say she had the best looking car in the movie along to Shawn's EVO. Until i saw Neela's RX-8 i had never really liked Mazda cars. Granted i was only 6 when Tokyo Drift came out, but i Didn't really like Dom's RX-7 in the first movie cause of the rim's and there was too much red, and i didn't like the RX-7 in 2 Fast 2 Furious cause of the detailing and bodykit if there was one. however It's only fair to the RX-7 to admit that I genuinely don't like the how the Stock RX-7 looks, and the only reals reason i like Hans RX-7 is because Han was the one driving it as well as that veilside wide body kit which basically fixed everything i didn't like about the stock RX-7. But RX-7 is a monster on black top and track, for everything i dislike about the RX-7 i have to bow my head in respect cause the RX-7 can run circles around my favorite Tuner the Gen 2 Mitsubishi Eclipse
Im not a car person but my personal top 3 favorite of the Fast and Furious franchise are 3. Neela's Rx8 2. DK's 350z 1. Han's Rx7 (I actually got a 1/32 scale of this one today)
I can't believe that you had to make a video on this just to shut up all the people that didn't believe you when you said it was mostly stock with a body kit, some wheels with bad wheel Gap, and a bad 50s Kustom lead sled style fade. Nothing about this says drift monster, it doesn't even look like it could break traction, but I digress I'm being too hard on it it's a nice car with a well fitted kit, we just don't see enough of it to care. But still thanks for more content. It's nice that you still were able to give us something even though you had to just go to information on the actual platform itself and not the movie car, since it was nothing special.
I never really got it, I get that you like rocket speed, but the rx8 is loved all over the world, noone heard anyone complain about them, they're plenty fast, you just have the luxury of having fast cars.
Great to see this RX-8 featured! even being a big rotary guy, and loving RX-8s, I gotta agree the paintjob on Neela's car was... lackluster, great color choices but terrible execution. These cars are underappreciated, even not being as great as the RX-7 (which I overly "simp" for, in internet terms), I feel like they deserve more love. But it makes me happy one of them was "recorded in history" in Tokyo Drift, it's not as big achievement as like these done by the RX-7 (being a pop-culture icon, winning endurance races like Bathurst or taking the Super GT title in 2006, to name a few things) but still a privilege not every car gets it.
i've never been a big fan of the first model RX8 but i do like the second model RX8. But even though, I always felt like the RX8 in Tokyo Drift was somehow one of the cleaner looking cars back when that movie came out
The RX8 is a criminally underrated car
Sure it wasn’t as good as the RX7 but nothing else has a rotary like the RX8
Yes. Nothing else like a rotary from an Rx8. Leaking seals, and premixing fuel until 50k miles when that absolutely shit Renesis 13b quits. And it's not even a coupe That's another lie. It's got suicide doors making it a 4 door. Cool car terrible engine.
Yes. Nothing else like a rotary from an Rx8. Leaking seals, and premixing fuel until 50k miles when that absolutely shit Renesis 13b quits. And it's not even a coupe That's another lie. It's got suicide doors making it a 4 door. Cool car terrible engine.
@@ConcussedGaming 115,000 compression in spec, and actually looks good. If taken care of some can last a while. Ive heard of them hitting 200,00
I would love to see the last race with DK’s villain laughs and seeing a cute anime girl on the side of his 350z. 😆
Halagada lol
What do u mean?
We just gotta wait for seans evo and the s15
He already made the s15
@@jeromelavoie4931 Where? I only see the one he made for Letty's s14...
Mona Lisa?
Yes
At the end of the film, sean drove an S15
Proud RX8 owner right here sir.
Awesome video
same here lol.It's nice to see it get some love
Bought mine less than a week ago
Same same
Thanks 👍
I love my rx8
Smiles per gallon
When the rotary winds up to 9K, its like a symphony
Some of my favorite cars are from Tokyo Drift. This car, hans RX7, Vin's cameo car at the end, the Monte Carlo in the beginning. I love TD.
90% of Tokyo Drift was filmed in The US. The Audience: *Are we a joke to you*
Cant be help if the japanese parking lots are too small
Most will hate the RX-8 simply for it's lack of straight line get up and go, but think of it as what it exactly is, an NC miata with a beefier chassis and a far better engine instead of the pathetic NA ford duratrash they put in the actual NC, then you'll realize it's a fantastic and surprisingly practical and very well balanced sports car. For the money spent you WILL NOT find anything that comes close to an RX-8 in terms of performance as they can be purchased very cheap thanks to the poor reputation that the series 1 (2003-2008 models) brought on and carried over to the genuinely reliable series 2 (2009-2012 models) and the closest you'll find to it in terms of stock vs stock performance is in the AP1 and AP2 Honda S2000 making almost the exact same HP and torque as a 6 port RX-8, but the F20 engine's potential far exceeds that of a renesis both NA and with FI making it the more popular option and much more expensive as a result. In the end if you want a great handling sports car that's loads of fun for literally pennies on the dollar a series 2 RX-8 is a great fit (although you do need to do a bit of research on owning a rotary before hand, otherwise you may run into issues fairly quick)
The Duratec is not a Ford designed engine, it’s completely based off the Mazda MZR. And it’s far from trash
Or you can just buy the RX with a worn off rotary for even less and swap an LS/JZ/K20/N54 inside. The engine bay is actually spacious, it will fit a V12 if you find one.
@@sarmatiancougar7556 that's not the point. it will mess up the weight distribution and set up of the car
@@ws6705 you are right if u do the swap at neighbour garage thats not true if proper shop will do the swap... got 1jz+r154(fully forged 940hp) with few small modifications to front, firewall moved back and proper engine mounts placement my rx8 has 51/49 with with exact tsame weight center even tho i6 engine is taller... magic of physics... mix of d1 and d2 susp is just iceing on the cake... so id say you are more wrong than right ;]
@@sarmatiancougar7556 Unfortunately that will fuck with the weight distribution, and thus throws off a good portion of the handling for the car. K swaps are definitely popular though no doubt about that. But take a look at an Rx8 with a clean engine bay (all the unnecessary bits removed/reorganized to be less visible) the engine is ridiculously far back in the engine bay, to the point where its very nearly a front biased mid-engine car, which is part of why it handles so well... So while you can definitely swap a K series of anything else in there (lord knows the engine bay can fit it, once again Mazda nailed the engine bay sizing, GOD I LOVE MAZDA!) it will, unfortunately, detract at least somewhat from the handling since there's no way your fitting anything else but a rotary in that specific placement.
It is an honor for me to be featured in this video (00:56). Thank you very much! 😊
Beautiful car, loved the color
I also own a 06 Shinka in Copper Mica Red. Personally the best color and interior set up on the RX-8.
Never have I expected Craig Lieberman to talk about anime and manga lol
oh yea
I dont need a computer to tell me about my throttle response
Then we're done here 🤣
@@jamiecroft1561 wouldn't have a problem with a v8
@@jorge.sol8182 rather own a 2Jz Motor
I think the design is tasteful personally
Nah since I saw the movie I noticed they had 90s american muscle lines an aesthetics assigned to japanese cars which made it look weird if you knew the culture bacl then.
I love the RX-8 since I saw Mia's in NFS: Most Wanted in 2005 :)
That's a OG game. The body kits for instance. Their actual Mazdaspeed bodykit
For me it was the one from Blacklist Nr. 12, Izzy :D and now I built my RX8 with the same design!
Same here Mia's RX-8 IS DAMM HOT
@@ralph9574 today is very cheap price
@@TheMrRusti yeah.
I had an '08 RX8. Red, manual. It wasn't the fastest thing out there but man it was a great car. The boot was surprisingly capable - even with a spare tyre bolted up under the parcel shelf I could comfortably fit a large suitcase in there, or even my golf clubs and an overnight bag. And yeah it wasn't lightning fast but there was something about the feel of the car through the steering wheel sitting low down in those seats that still gave you the sense of speed. Man it was an enjoyable vehicle to drive. Unique enough on our roads that it somehow still turned heads. Aside the constant fear of "is the rotary going to let go *this* drive?" it always put a smile on my face... sadly had to trade it in on an SUV when the kids came... despite technically having four doors and ISOFIX in the back seats it somehow still wasn't "a family car" :D
"the sense of speed"..... You do not know how much i agree with you!!! (seriously, not ironic)
@@user-mi2hf7me4r i miss that sense of speed of an rx8... i made huge mistake got another car (1k hp daily) after some time i got my rx8 back and it wasnt the same:( she lost her charm so i swapped engine got 940hp and its more fun but still not the same... instead of chilling behind the wheel on redline having fun sliding/drifting every turn/corner in my city while i go to work with huge smile on my face - im in constant unease cuz... u know... u need to redline all the time 200hp 900hp 1.2k... you know... this is the way...
I didn’t know I wanted a video on this car until just now.
As an RX-8 owner, I'd say these cars are underrated and faster then people think. No I'm not saying these cars are fast, just faster then people would expect, and if taken care of properly, decently reliable
Brother these cars are slow I'm sorry. I love them though
@@kbdadriftking there faster then BRZ's
@@kbdadriftking They can kick some serious ass on the touge. It's actually up there with the S2000.
@@kbdadriftking What are you comparing them to? And on what type of road?
@@dylanrakosnik9705 faster than miatas, brz's 6 cylinder chargers, challengers, mustangs camaros , 350z's may i go on?
That RX8 is the most beautiful car ever! My top 3 favorites including Brians Skyline. So simple, yet so gorgeous
Just recently watched Tokyo Drift with the original english synchro. The movie is better than I had in mind and it was a great hommage to car enthusiasts all around the world.
I completely agree
RX-8 most of them are popular back then.
RE Amemiya used this car as tuning car for street tuning enter on Tokyo Auto Salon 2012 and Drifting in D1 Grand Prix from 2011 to 2014 round 1 Fuji international Speedway with Rotary Turbo 550 horsepower.
The pro handling on the rx8 is the reason why I’m able to take corner so easy
Lotus Elise passes you easily
@Michaels Carport thats overkill
@Michaels Carport depends where they'll be racing at, the Veyron is pretty decent at cornering as well thnx to its rear engine layout with AWD
A 2g eclipse gsx would take corners even better
1 thing ill always love about RX8's: they're dirt cheap and have never shot up in value like most JDM cars have and they're still fantastic looking cars
A Itasha livery would of been clean as hell. I didn’t mind the design they went with on the RX8 it was one of the less offensive stylistic designs and didn’t look bad. Be cool to get a movie down the road that stays on the focus of street racing, attacking corners, and seeing who can cross a finish line first. Definitely not the FF franchise anymore if it ever was
The RX-7 is technically the older brother.
Everyone has their opinion but being an owner of an FD rx7 and an Rx8 I do find the RX8 a better & more raw and pure track car with a superior chassis
The NA renesis 13B can be tuned towards 220HP at the wheels with good compression and breathing which is more than enough for a NA lightweight car.
For Neelas turbo rx8 to only have 190hp it must of had terrible compression after the movie thrashing and/or tuning was not ideal…..
As a Rx-8 owner i was waiting for you to cover this for awhile....granted my own engine needs a rebuild, but still. Thanks for doing this, Craig.
hearing you explain what the movies could have been is funny. So you really wanted to push that Itasha out there back in the day, that's bold.
I’m predicting furry Itasha is the next big thing.
Your a God Craig probably my most wanted video thanks!!!
Wow, thanks
I find it odd that even with crazy good handling, the RX-8 was looked down upon for looks and lack of turbos. The Miata has been around for decades but people eventually caught on and now it’s a meme. I can’t help but root for the same to happen for the RX-8 (even though it’s a bitch to keep running from what I’ve heard). Also, I think it might’ve been less intricate and less costly (along with possibly being less cringeworthy) to have just the lines and shapes on the cars. You’d either have to license the anime in question to appear as a wrap on a car or commission an original one which probably wouldn’t be cool with Universal execs that didn’t see much point in doing anything different from what they’ve already been doing in earlier films. Was itasha wrapping even big way back in 2006? Regardless, it would’ve been hella cool to see.
Thanks Craig I love your videos, the first f and f movie influenced me to mod my car too, fun times
These cars are so undervalued. Just bought my rx8 a few weeks ago.
Also took the plunge this year. Amazing car.
Bought mine less than a week ago. Great car
Been waiting for this one
Very nice to listen to the man, who understands a lot in car tuning...thank you )
Tuning, yes. Rotaries....frick no.
Craig can you put the bottom captions up for a few seconds longer. I keep having to pause or rewind to read them
It's unfortunate that the changes in laws forced Mazda to lose the turbo. Because the RX-8 is (imo) gorgeous in terms of looks, especially due to its super unique door design. The fortunate side is, they're dirt cheap, even to this day. Which is great for people like me that only now are getting into cars and almost all JDM cars that are popular are inflated in prices beyond imagination.
Too true
My main thing is I'm surprised Universal didn't try to go with more jdm tuners. Like Top Secret, MiNE's, Spoon, and such. Because I honestly would of loved seeing one of Top Secret's Gold Pearl cars.
Or smokeys Supra
they had a strong relationship with veilsiide, why risk it
When those RX-8 cars came out I test drove one. I also looked at Mazdaspeed Protege, Subaru STI, 350Z, Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, Honda S2000 and the Acura RSX Type S. I ended up Choosing a 2001 Volvo V40 which I was able to modify into the 260hp range for under $6k including the car itself.
I'm waiting for a video with Han's and Sean's S15
Love the new intro Craig! 🔥
I have driven a first gen 1985 rx7first 13b 6 port gsl-se and a 2003 rx8 and they where both extremely fun cars I miss both of them
Damn, we could’ve had itasha in TD, haha
Thanks for sharing your knowledge 👍🏻
Good video. I REALLY hope that you kick down and do an Isuzu I-Mark vid. That was also my first car ('89 RS hatchback) and I would like to see some professional representation. Thanks for the great content.
I agree with the anime/manga itasha thing. We had a fucking hulk mobile but nothing anime. So stupid
100% agree. Hulk was dumb
It isn't this somewhat of a phenomenon?...
Oh this well designed firm tight lightweight even perfectly balanced chassis but with a lackluster powertrain from the factory with the intention of the aftermarket doing the rest of the work, it'll sell like a hot cake even though reviews will be poor from the enthusiasts who thought it was a Tokyo Typhoon straight out the box.
Miata, FRS, S2K, NSX, RX8, etc all wonderful platforms but never with enough power to satisfy the consumer, as if the average driver could handle the power that they want but they're never content with.
it drives me nuts people call the nsx "slow" it obliterates cars much faster than it on the track .. straight-line speed is overated
@@ThreeDaysOfDan a well-balanced driver's car is meant to amplify the driver's skill, how they can manipulate it around with precision, people forget a balanced frame needs a balanced power train, too much power and it's unrealistic, unreliable and limits applications.
Plus throwing excess amounts of power in a production vehicle increases the production costs, liability and insurance.
There's a reason why muscle cars were marketed under their power band, and it takes more skill to drive a slow car fast than it does a fast car slow anyhow, especially on the street when no one should be exceeding the speed limit now 🤔🤫
I’ve owned both an FD Rx7 and a s1 Rx8, and I can say without doubt the the rx8 is the better drivers car...no piston engine comes close to the sound or the feel of the NA rotary! Sounds like Neena’s rx8 lost some compression during filming!
More like most of its compression.
I remember seeing the RX8 a lot in racing video games.
5:58 Taken from Need For Speed Payback
I used to have an RX8 and I would definitely have it over the FD. It's the most reliable rotary and it's faster in the corners. The gas mileage was great for daily driving and the shifting was tight and close. The only reason the RX8 would ever lose to an FD is if the FD had professional level chassis and suspension upgrades.
Finally someone with knowledge.
5:42 Lil Bow Wow's Hulk Mobile "Am I A Joke to You?"
I like how you laugh at your own expense. Just shoes how honest you are
Hey Craig, love your videos. Can you do your foreign viewers a favor though and slow down those subtitles or notes or whatever you want to call them. I had to pause or rewind the video a ton of times because by the time i really saw them or started reading they already started fading so fast that especially if english isnt your first language, its kinda rough. As the fast fam is international, Im sure theres people even slower than me that will have even bigger problems. In your other videos I never felt that issue as much. Thanks in advance. :)
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Will do.
Honestly love my black 03 RX8 with AEM intake and x-force headers and x-force stainless exhaust. But don't buy one because that leaves more for me! I would describe the RX8 as a large go-kart that makes all the right noises and hangs on around corners. Don't forget the engine that everyone complains about won multiple engine awards, what other NA 1.3l makes over 230hp?
I remember seeing a Shinka Edition in Black Cherry at a dealership, and when I went to look under the hood I see engraved by some mad person "SHOULD HAVE STAYED WITH YOUR EX!" :0 .. But I love the RX8, wouldn't mind owning one! Good review!
They are cheap and going extinct. Grab one before they sky rocket in price in 10 years.
I love these cars I could only dream of driving them !
I know im in the absolute minority, but in my opinion the Rx8 looks even better than the rx7. Both are beautiful but the rx8 to me just looks a tiny bit better.
Thanks for a fair assessment of my beloved RX8. Owned mine for 17 years and still going strong. But, I get that they aren't a car that appeals to most. That's ok. Also, thanks for being better than the usual, "Hur, Dur, Apex Seals LOL" comments most of the internet resorts to because they can't name any other parts.
as much as i love rotary and love my SA22C, id rather have any rx-7 over an rx-8
@@ThreeDaysOfDan Fair enough. The wonderful thing here is we can all have what we like. Also, I have 4 FCs.
My work place has got this car in our collection still running good
I loved the designs because they weren’t the typical designs you think of when you hear Tokyo or drift lol
Ahaha I remember they were filming at the Hawthorne mall, there used to be meets at the plaza, and we would hear the tires screeching….we would try to sneak a peak at the bottom parking area where they had set up
New intros so good 😂
191hp damn thats like BRZ but back in the day when the BRZ itself never exist
The 4port 4speed had the 190hp. The 6speed 6port was 232.
The Type S from Japan has 250hp but thats useless as well
I think the BRZ would fit right in back in 2007
I love the mention of the anime influenced styling. It's called itasha and it definitely sould have been in the film. It's unfair there was no sequal cause there's so much more to japan car culture like the wangan
I agree, nothing against Initial D style drifting and racing, but Wangan Midnight was always more interesting to me personally.
itasha is just japanese for cringey
So. By complete coincidence. My veilside rep car has a GReddy turbo kit sitting in the shelf, and I did try running a Tanabe Medallion exhaust in it but it was too quiet for me. 😅 And I never actually realized this car had a veilside kit.
I had a RX8 once....i went through 4 transmission before I decided to modify it with a T56 and 3 rotor small twin turbo. Made around 425 hp and 400 lbs torque and revs until 10.5k rpm
That sounds like a sick build
Can you make A episode on Sean his evo 8?? Would love to see that!
I don’t think there’s a single rotary fan out there with Piston Envy, Craig...
I agree the rx8 definately does need a couple of Wu tang whirly boys
Nice video chris
I still can't believe the z32 never got even a second of screen time in any of the movies.. what a shame
Yeah not even in movies just in general it never got the appreciation
Theres a few movies where this car was seen
Kill Bill and Metro Highway movie
i wish we saw more of this car
Hey Craig, i have a question, do you know why didn't the first fast and the furious movie show us Brian's supra racing in Racewars?
Because it wasn’t in the script simply because it wasn’t necessary to the story. The story was Brian trying to catch the bad guys. It didn’t matter what cars were racing at Race Wars.
Nobody wanted to race they just wanted to stare at girls
Please do Sean’s Red EVO!
Vid about Tokyo drift S15 when? :D
I sense a lot of dislikes when the RX-8 community gets a hold of this video....lots of harsh personal opinions.
Still nice to see a RX-8 video.
Exactly, "piston envy" if anything its rotary hate on their ends.
Meh, still gonna buy an RX-8 when one becomes available, bad purchase or not.
Nice Video....... 🇮🇳
5:45 Wasn't the movie made before the itasha fad, though? Seems like I remember it catching shortly after the third movie, but not before. Personally, I would've liked to have seen some of the more famous demo cars of the time make cameo appearances in the movie, and maybe even some tuning shops (Abflug, Top Secret, RE Amemiya, MCR, etc.) famous tuners themselves like Smokey Nagata or Amemiya-san. I remember "Spo-com" style became a thing in Japan following the third movie.
As for the RX-8, I remember Sport Compact Car got their hands on the Tokyo Drift movie cars. As for the RX-8 it had a lot of problems, they weren't able to do much to test the car and I think they said it was in limp mode. From what I understand that car was soon to be crushed afterward as it was a JDM vehicle that would've been impractically expensive to ship outside the US. I don't know how many examples of the movie cars still survive, but I imagine most of them were destroyed as they were Japan-market cars under 25 to conform to US law.
Nah the itasha car was well before tokyo drift however it didnt catch on here in america or other places until after the movie. Its awesome that these cars are being accepted nowadays.
love this car
My first car was a RX8 shinka in black cherry and it’s currently being fitted with a better engine. Would also like to know about the white mustang in furious 6.
Great video.
But please make a video about Brian's r34 fro fast and furious 4.
Please
Hiroshima hurricanes 😂 I see you are also a man of culture
I was working for a Mazda dealership when the RX8 first came out. I remember Mazda saying the RX8 had way more HP than it really had. Later it was found out by car enthusiast magazines. In the end Mazda recognized their mistake and let anyone who ordered the vehicle a100% money back under some circumstances if I remember correctly
That’s crazy!
You're going to have to prove this. Never heard of this before for the manual transmission. The highest HP rating Mazda gave was 238HP which later was actually detuned to 232HP then the 2nd Gen had a refresh of 237HP.
About time
Wouldn’t the rx7 be it’s older brother?
I Love RX-8s
It's a Great TRACK car
And I love RX 7s 😍😍😍
@@iJuanGutierrez i love both
I thought it was funny he mentioned “hachi roku” for a substitute to the eclipse spider, but then bashes the rx8 for having an “anemic 200hp”. The eight six was not a fast car, it was primarily a car that handled, same as rx-8.
Original rx7 was never meant to be a bruiser, it was built as a fun spirited car, their z was the one with the bigger motor, that car has always been about handling.
I hate how people only think of straight lines and how fast a car goes. These are the people that wipe out on corners because they can't truly drive a car.
Seen most of your videos and still waiting for the Lightning. Yes, its was used for a parts runner truck.... that Paul Walker ended up crashing... but as a Lightning owner, I can tell you, that truck is sooooo much more than just a shop truck.
He did a fair bit on the Lightning 10 months ago then in the same video covered the NSX with the gawd afwul paint job owned by Tej. >.
@@DareToBeDeviant whoops .. missed that 1. Watching now!!
Can you do video on what stunts was done by the actors cause paul walker said he did alot of his own stunts and I was always curious about what stunts they did and what stunts was done by the stunt doubles
hey Craig . in the 2 fast 2 furious dvd there was a special feature that would play over the movie showing facts and stuff about the scene and the cars , did you have anything to so with that ?
I daily drove my 87 rx7 for 6 years. Then daily drove a 04 rx8 for 6 years. I felt like I was at home and could take my kids to daycare. I ended up getting a regular daily and still have the 7. Kinda wish I didn’t let my dad and wife talk me into dumping the 8. It was a fun family car.
i actually loved the paint scheme of Neela's RX-8 the car was ombre Black and Sky Blue. Personally i'd say she had the best looking car in the movie along to Shawn's EVO. Until i saw Neela's RX-8 i had never really liked Mazda cars. Granted i was only 6 when Tokyo Drift came out, but i Didn't really like Dom's RX-7 in the first movie cause of the rim's and there was too much red, and i didn't like the RX-7 in 2 Fast 2 Furious cause of the detailing and bodykit if there was one. however It's only fair to the RX-7 to admit that I genuinely don't like the how the Stock RX-7 looks, and the only reals reason i like Hans RX-7 is because Han was the one driving it as well as that veilside wide body kit which basically fixed everything i didn't like about the stock RX-7. But RX-7 is a monster on black top and track, for everything i dislike about the RX-7 i have to bow my head in respect cause the RX-7 can run circles around my favorite Tuner the Gen 2 Mitsubishi Eclipse
Dude, Can you please do a video about the EVO IX from Tokyo Drift?????????????
Im not a car person but my personal top 3 favorite of the Fast and Furious franchise are
3. Neela's Rx8
2. DK's 350z
1. Han's Rx7 (I actually got a 1/32 scale of this one today)
Can you do a video on the dodge Daytona from fast 6
The actual car in the film used five spoke RAYS GT-AV rims, while the render used 9/10 spoke rims.
what is the name of those unUsed render wheels ?
I can't believe that you had to make a video on this just to shut up all the people that didn't believe you when you said it was mostly stock with a body kit, some wheels with bad wheel Gap, and a bad 50s Kustom lead sled style fade.
Nothing about this says drift monster, it doesn't even look like it could break traction, but I digress I'm being too hard on it it's a nice car with a well fitted kit, we just don't see enough of it to care.
But still thanks for more content.
It's nice that you still were able to give us something even though you had to just go to information on the actual platform itself and not the movie car, since it was nothing special.
yet the stock car was drifting LOL , even on wet roads .. i call bullshit it cant drift when a stock SA rx-7 with 100 hp can drift pretty easily
7:00 the disappointment in his face when he says that haha
I never really got it, I get that you like rocket speed, but the rx8 is loved all over the world, noone heard anyone complain about them, they're plenty fast, you just have the luxury of having fast cars.
Great to see this RX-8 featured! even being a big rotary guy, and loving RX-8s, I gotta agree the paintjob on Neela's car was... lackluster, great color choices but terrible execution.
These cars are underappreciated, even not being as great as the RX-7 (which I overly "simp" for, in internet terms), I feel like they deserve more love. But it makes me happy one of them was "recorded in history" in Tokyo Drift, it's not as big achievement as like these done by the RX-7 (being a pop-culture icon, winning endurance races like Bathurst or taking the Super GT title in 2006, to name a few things) but still a privilege not every car gets it.
I like Neelas rx8
i've never been a big fan of the first model RX8 but i do like the second model RX8.
But even though, I always felt like the RX8 in Tokyo Drift was somehow one of the cleaner looking cars back when that movie came out
The crew 2s thunder wave
Can you do a episode of the pizza boy car from the first fast and the furious movie..