Life After 8000 RPM: Lotus Elise and Mazda RX-8
As they make a quiet exit, we push these underappreciated, incomparable sports cars to redline one last time.
The auto industry moves too fast to fully appreciate the cars it builds. We haven’t even driven the 580-hp Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, and the mere announcement of a 650-hp Ford Shelby GT500 has already hijacked the Chevy’s supercharged, eight-cylinder thunder. We typically wouldn’t take issue with such a competitive market that consistently leads to faster, more efficient, or simply better replacements, but when the Lotus Elise and the Mazda RX-8 left the U.S. market for 2012, there were no replacements. And that’s a problem.
Photo Gallery: Life After 8000 RPM: Lotus Elise and Mazda RX-8 – Automobile Magazine
Photo Gallery: Life After 8000 RPM: Lotus Elise and Mazda RX-8 – Automobile Magazine
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Life After 8000 RPM: Lotus Elise and Mazda RX-8
