Constantly having to be put in shop. Had to have the motor replaced, ac quit working, constantly replacing tires. Fuel mileage poor. Tired of paying out for repairs. Worst car I ever owned I have a ...

Gone is the 1.3-liter 13B-MSP Renesis rotary engine that came with this car; In its place is a 3.6-liter LFX V6, the same as you’d find in a numer of GM cars.

There are a lot of good, well-documented reasons not to buy a used Mazda RX-8. We’ll briefly mention a couple of them before moving on to why those real problems might not mean Mazda’s last rotary ...