Mehh.... I much preferred my 3rd gen RX-7 twin turbo to the RX-8. But yeah, clearly superior to the original RX-7. Original RX-7 has great styling for its time, though, and I think the RX-8 was a bit too friendly looking and bland.
Oh, I rather like the styling of the RX-8, especially the suicide passenger doors.
But its not meant to fulfill the role of the original RX-7.
And those later model RX-7s had some interesting, if failure prone, hardware like active suspension components.
To be truthful, I rather like the original RX-7 and its predecessor the RX-3.
At one time, I had the demented idea of putting an RX-7 engine and other components into a Mazda GLC (which also shares an RX-3 legacy).
These days, that would be pointless since we have decades of vehicles like the Gti with higher output motors in economy car chassis.
But back then?
It would have been cool to smoke someone who thought they had a performance advantage over you.
Rather like the looks I got from people in '85 when my dull silver Dodge Omni GLH (with all the decals removed) - through my rear view mirror.
Edit - Stop drawing me off topic guys.
" 'Tradition' is not to preserve the ashes but to pass on the flame!" - Thomas Morus, (07. 02. 1478 - 06. 07. 1535, London)
There is a good phrase to summarize the state of affairs in the Amiga community.
So would the 'stamp collectors' stop harping on their use of legacy hardware?
FPGAs, PPCs, or X64. Onward and upward.