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Originally Posted by georgeyw Errrrmmm Fuel Efficient? Next to Rotary - the words fuel and efficient do NOT belong together - fuel monster would be far more suitable. Even a stocky will chew juice like it's a fire breathing 6L V8 UNLESS you drive it at 1500rpm....

Dood, we're taking about a high-performance car, here -- "efficiency" is relative to performance. Check this out:

"The Mazda RX7 was a practical sports car, highly competitive, and offered at a low price. Supply could not keep up with demand and many potential buyers were often offering more money above sticker price just to own one. There were initial quality problems but all issues were quickly resolved. By 1980 nearly 140,000 examples had been produced. Using a 12A rotary engine displacing 1.2 liters, it was capable of producing around 105 horsepower. Zero to sixty was accomplished in ten seconds.

In 1984 a more powerful 1.3 liter rotary engine was introduced, the 13B. The 13B produced 135 horsepower and was placed in the 'special edition' cars called the GSL-SE. The GSL-SE were given disc brakes on all four corners and a Limited Slip Differential. The zero to sixty time improved to just under nine seconds... more

This is a friendly dialogue, of course, but I gotta ask...have you ever driven a stock 1981 RX-7 with a 5-speed and a 13B engine? It sounds like no, cuz anybody I ever met who ever has spends the rest of his life singing Savana's praises --