drove one and i wasnt impressed... but.....

[royal]

I don\'t know how much you are considering spending but this has to be about the best FD in the country just now. Its not cheap but it looks incredible and probably has had double the wanting price spent in bits.
http://www.rotaryart.uk.com/acatalog/Tripple_in_FD_for_sale.html

[ENVYD]

thats for sale on pistonheads for £14k, killer car like!

[royal]

You got a link? I\'m pretty certain it used to be 18k on piston heads as well? I\'ll let Gary know so he can update his site.

[ENVYD]

yeah it did usd to be up for 18k,
 
here you go
 
http://www.pistonheads.com/SALES/730969.htm

[RemarkLima]

Just as a note, the S1 Exige with the Rover K-Series VHPD engine is services every 6k miles, and is generally regarding to need a rebuild every 40,000 miles or so depending on usage.

So the RX7 can be seen as much more reliable

[lockwood77]

Yeah, I prefer the S1 in terms of looks (and it\'s lighter), but I couldn\'t live with the K-series, hence the need for a Honda conversion!

Gorgeous race-ready one on Pistonheads for £24k. If only...

[Will66]

If you want the Buzz of the Rotary Engine, nifty handling but less likelihood of expensive bills why not try an RX-8.  Not quite got the power of the RX7 and hasn\'t got the straightline speed but handles beautifully and revs to 9000rpm.  It\'s also a 4 seater with a decent boot, standard Bose sound system and climate control.  They are dirt cheap at the moment with plenty around well under £9k!  I\'ve put 43,000 miles on mine in 2 years, including 5 trackdays and high speed cross continent thrashes and it\'s not let me down yet, infact other than the 12,500 mile servicing and the brakes upgrading (Hawk Pads, Grooved discs and Stainless Steel Brake lines) the only time it\'s been back to the dealer was to have a couple of areas of slightly bubbling paint looked at which were sorted by the Mazda Dealer.  In day to day use it even gets 25 mpg!  As for trackday pace, I\'m no Fangio but at Donington Park last weekend I was no slower than the kit car brigade without much effort.

[jasonw]

i guess as long as the bills are not £1000\'s every month or two i could live with bills of 200/300 month(averaged out)
 
as for the RX8, i prefer the looks of the RX7 and they are far less common, i guess thats because they have mostly all broken down and are in the garage
 
 
and 14k is outa my league for now, thats another reason why a cheaper 7 suits as i can get the car sooner and spend on it as i go, if i had 14k i\'d continue to save and get a honda\'d S1 exige as that ticks all the boxes

[gmogle]

I doubt you\'ll ever find an RX7 owner with everything working for long !!!! Can only echo the comments that most cars are 12 plus years old and things go. At the moment my gearbox is going and the radio only plays one side lol !!!

Superb cars when running well but they certainly are thirsty !! You\'ll never get the best out of it on the road, the track is where the car shines !!!

[gsb876]

If you were not impressed buy the tripple rotary up for sale ?

600bhp @ 0.85bar :god:god:2eek:eek:

[Jono FD3]

Don\'t know if I\'m thinking out of the box here.... but could be interesting

Why not buy an elise with a blown engine (lets face it..... they are K-Series so they are going to be about!) and drop a nice little light weight 13b REW twin turbo lump in there handeling of an elise with the get up & go of a FD on steroids!!
best of both worlds, & would sound epick through a short exhaust system!

Jono

[Nik da Greek]

Eliseseses (wot\'s the plural of Elise, then?:confused:) aren\'t anywhere near as nice lookin as an FD, though. Plus they\'re the most horribly cramped interior, impossible to get in and out of, and finished with raw FRP and chicken wire everywhere. So it\'s a good idea, Jono, but you may get excellent handling and a great engine that way, but it\'ll still look like a badly-finished baboon\'s bum!

[RemarkLima]

Also the 13B REW is heavier (esp with turbo\'s and such like attached) than the humble K series, all ali block and head with liners while the 13B still has cast iron lumps on it.

Plus you\'d then have to fabricate everything up which would cost a bomb, so just stick with the Honda K20 engine and if you need more power then get a SC on it!

But Nik is right, the S1 Elise / Exige are pretty basic, the S2\'s are a lot better all round TBH.

[Jono FD3]

you may get excellent handling and a great engine that way, but it\'ll still look like a badly-finished baboon\'s bum!

But you would have one of the fastest & loudest badly finished baboon\'s bum in the uk :WaveBye:p

[jasonw]

if it was going to be the S1 elise then i\'d put an exige/elise motorsport bodywork on it, but the honda\'d elise i drove was an S2 - it was awesome and still NA, supercharged would be immense, the only reason (as i think i may of stated but cant be arsed to recheck) to get a Rex (other than the way they look) is because its much cheaper to buy than a decent elise with a honda engine or have the £11k conversion done
 
i am torn, also as stated i need to drive more RX7\'s to compare properly as to date i have driven what seems to be a dog and i am comparing it with decent Lotus\'