Mazda RX-8
What it says about you
Opinion
A rotary engine, four doors, and a fuel bill you defend with real feeling. It burns oil by design and you find that romantic rather than alarming.
Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.
7 model years on record, 300 complaints filed. That is too few to measure against. Every finding on this site compares a year with the same model's other years, and that needs about 40 complaints in a year and 4 years to compare it with. This nameplate has 2. So nothing is claimed either way — the recalls and ratings below are the record, and they are the whole record.
The years to look at closely: 2006 (sun), 2005 (lot). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.
Every year
- 2011 3 recalls 4 complaints
- 2010 4 recalls 5 complaints
- 2009 4 recalls 8 complaints
- 2008 5 recalls 17 complaints
- 2007 5 recalls 38 complaints
- 2006 sun 60 complaints
- 2005 lot 168 complaints
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.
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