Cause you asked for it

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n order to help calm some of the upset RX-8 owners, Mazda PR and RotaryNews have worked out to release some of the testing data they used in their evaluation. I cannot stress enough how rare it is for a car company to release the actual time slips used in internal testing to the public.

Some might say that these times for the 1/4 mile won't be repeated by those outside of Mazda, however we are researching reports of drag racers in the Houston area that bested even the times Mazda obtained. Stay tuned!

Mazda has provided us with copies of times slips for 5 cars, from pre-production build by hand prototype through production line cars: Red 31, Yellow 44, Silver 49, Blue 86, and Red 90 are the designations they use.

Yellow 44 and Sliver 49 are pre production cars build on the assembly line (not by hand), and have been retrofitted with full-blown production-spec engines.


Silver 49:

Red 31 is a long lead press car that Car and Driver, Automobile and Road and Track All used to generate early numbers for the car, with the 6-port problem fixed.

Red 31:


Blue 86 and Red 90 are full blown production cars.

Blue 86:



Red 90: