How do you look at yours!

[normski]

Ok is an Rx7 considered as a super car? Or even what constitutes a super car. Interesting though! Well I think so. What about a porker! is that one, Even better what is a Hyper car. :xconfused

[craigr]

They were on about this on Top Gear a couple of weeks ago. In their eyes, a super car was something high performance, pretty expensive, but something you could actually drive (e.g. Ferrari 360, Porsche 911, etc).

A hypercar was something that was so extreme it was almost undriveable - certainly you couldn\'t use it daily (they cited pretty much all Lambo\'s at being hypercars).

[TwistedHumour]

I\'ve always associated 200mph+ top end with being a hyper car

[iaint]

Just a very fast car.

Much as I love the FD it\'s got a dull interior and build quality is 1990s jap - mechanically good but not outstanding.

Not a super car (911 Turbo, F430, Lambo Galladro, AMV8, Ford GT, etc).

Note that I don\'t include the normal (n/a) 911s in there.  Only the Turbo/GT2 would count.

Not a HyperCar (Veyron, Carerra GT, Enzo, Mac F1, Murci, Koeningseggegegggege, Zonda, etc.)

IMO.

[peterwolds]

i look at mine as an extension to my wallet,love it to bits

[666FLO]

I look at mine as the best purchase I\'ve ever made.. apart form the nice pair of shoes and top I bought last weekend but I will get bored of them after I\'ve worn them once or twice.. :p  .

[Nuk Su Kow]

Let me put it ths way using 2 examples...
 
Firstly I was in the pub with the lads a few weeks back and a friend of mine currently has an Audi TT 1.8 thats he\'s throwing loads of money at to get it to 360/400 bhp mark :confused:
 
I told him of my recent purchase and which he decided to do a little test.
He went up to the nearest girl and showed her a picture of his car and mine (not conclusive I know but it seemed a good idea at the time:D )
 
She said she liked mine but didn\'t know what it was....
At which point he started to laugh saying, "Ha ha she doesn\'t even know what it is!!"
 
So I replied, "Does that make it more common or less common then?"
 
The smile quickly slipped off his face.
 
Secondly I was in a 2 way traffic jam the other night. There was a Lambo Galliardo coming the other way. It just so happened we pulled up opposite eachother and he leant out the window saying, "Nice car fella....."
 
Before the trolls start, no, he wasn\'t taking the mick.
 
What i\'m pointing out is that whenever you see a rex, and the true enthusiasts out there understand, people know that it is a serious piece of kit. That it\'s a drivers car and they see the timeless shape the way we owners do.
 
I\'m not saying it\'s the best car in the world.....but it\'s right up there....and for a car that was designed nearly 2 decades ago?....thats not bad going in my books.....

[RobPhobos]

Surely its a Jap super car though, along with the NSX and R34.

[normski]

*Ummm. I agree, it is a Jap super car.

But! for me a super car is something, which has something 99% of your normal motors don\'t have. Sports Style shape. Something unusual, It\'s has to be fast, very fast, to normal cars. Exotic something unobtainable to most people. Can\'r realy put your finger on it, in the sense that not one thing. it\'s morw a collection of things. It\'s individuality not to say it\'s the only one, but it\'s something which you just don\'t see every day! Not like your escorts of the World.

To me thats a super car. So, does the RX7 meet the above, I think they do. But thats my view and only my view. Your free, to not agree, but there we go. So is the 3 rotor a super car, it does or at least should do around 200 + .A Zonda would not get away from it. You won\'t see many around thats for sure. And, it\'s not a car you would use evey day. So where does that leave my 20B then. If, of course it\'s not a super car.  :2Confused

[Bobfish]

The RX7 isnt actually a lot slower than alot of the newer lambos. I have a top gear test video, they do 0-60 in the murcialago in 4.8 and quarter in the high 12s.

My 7 standard quarters in 13.2 and book 0-60 is 4.9!

[gonzoninja]

I think there is a lot of snobbery in the old Super car club. Very few Japanese cars are considered Super Cars by magazines and car clubs and stuff, perhaps the only exception being an NSX.

To be honest though I\'m not sure what I\'d call an RX7, cos to me a standard Porsche 911 isn\'t what I\'d call a super car, It\'s a high end sports car/coupe.

[Red and Single]

With a few mods it\'s a bargain basement supercar muncher.
Drop 15K into a buying and sorting a rex and you\'ll eat anything upto "hypercar" for breakfast...

Not only that, but it looks better than most too.

I love my rex :chat

[shafster]

i class our jap cars as sports cars, supercars kick in with the likes of mid-range ferrari, porsche, bentley, aston martins etc. and hyper cars are obviously the pinnacle of the range

yes our cars are as fast as super cars in some instances but they dont have the prestige or the price tag when they were new of the prestige marques.

[Paul-Tll]

Your all wrong
Its a......


Performance Car

:WaveBye

Paul..

[rextreme]

In Standard trim, NO WAY.

In modified trim, maybe it could be made into one. JOKE!

500Hp + Woodgrain Luxury interior + hydaulic aero kit + Excessive Price tag + Gull wing kit + a hint of Understeer = Supercar

I think the Japanese sum up the RX7 as "Pure Sports" car which I think fits it.

It\'s one of the last, fast rear wheel drive cars that is fun to drive or rewards a good driver with balanced handling and moderate speed point to point.

It\'s not a super car as the pricing dictates (Even the stupid $110,000 Australian SP version wasnt expensive enough)

If it were released tomorrow, It would sit beside the 350Z and thats not a supercar either.

Russ.