If it's been taken care of it should be fine. The only real difference maintenance wise is that you have to add oil every 3-5 fill-ups. In general, the cost of keeping an RX-8 in good condition is going to be a bit more than keeping more typical cars going, but the cost difference isn't nearly as bad as many make it…

Wow, I must be a genius because I've never had a problem with the keys to my RX8.

Also, the minute the keys leave the driver's area with the car on, it beeps furiously and turns off after a bit. Maybe this system would help the apparent confusion you have with the complex process of leaving something in your pocket.

These reports of a thruster problem are fake! I've got data to prove it and I will be writing up a blog post on Monday. We've also got CNN on board to try the trip again and prove that all 4 thrusters work.

This seems like a desperate attempt to take attention off of the big stock drop on from their awful earnings report. Maybe Musk should spend more time running the company and less time fighting with people on the internet.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/20/aut…

Heck, even on the Tesla Owner's Group drive to prove the NY Times wrong one car needed a firmware update halfway (which required a Tesla engineer available to make).

If these issues happened with any other car, nobody would by it. We cut Tesla some slack because they're trying something new, but Musk being a spoiled…

The minivan helped destroy the station wagon. That's why I hate them. I've seen plenty of station wagons that are both family friendly and fun to drive. I have yet to see a single sane person who knows anything about cars talk about how fun it is to drive a minivan.

I'm seeing a pattern here. Tesla loans out a car, then gets pissed when the review isn't perfect. I wonder if the feedback/information presented to the driver was as thourough as the secret "logging".

I think your find a different job statement is accurately rebutted with this lovely animated gif:

In college, I bought a new 2003 Tiburon and thought it was the greatest thing ever. When I arrived at the dorm, I promptly dragged several of my friends out to check out how sweet it was. I put the key in the ignition to allow them to witness the glory of the 2.7 liter V6, but it wouldn't turn. I spent 10 minutes…

#2 is definitely horrible. My mother was stopped at a traffic light and was rear-ended by an 18 wheeler that had a brake problem. The accident happened in the mid 90's and she still goes to physical therapy and takes multiple medications because of damage to her hip and spine.

I don't see 230hp as enough. Remember when Mazda tried to convince everybody that 230hp was good enough for the RX-8 because it handles great and weighs less than a 350Z? Which car is still being made?

The RX series! The RX7 was amazing and even my RX8 was 2 turbos shy of being just as good. A new RX7, or maybe RX9, with some forced induction o,r possibly as a hybrid to give it some torque and better fuel economy, would be a welcome re-addition to the car world. Doritos on a stick technology was killed off too soon!

I agree 100%. I'm a .NET developer and was excited when Microsoft showed Windows Phone off and it actually looked good. Then we heard nothing for nearly a year and it had already become irrelevant. Hopefully they don't screw this launch up as bad.

If you treated a rotary like a normal car, you would likely have immense repair bills. It requires extra oil, different maintenance and various other issues. However, there are 3 major differences.

I know I'm oversimplifying, my point was more that my RX-8 is probably the most finicky, problematic combustion car currently available. People tell me day in and day out that my car is a maintenance nightmare, but it is still clearly harder to destroy than a Tesla.

So, the cheap battery in my "unreliable" RX-8 has no problem getting my car started after a winter in storage and a hour on a trickle charger, but the most advanced car battery system in the world can't go a few days without actively being charged.

A few things.

I'm surprised that the only article about this event is for Higgins. There were a lot of Jalopnik worthy cars at this event. There were 30's era indy cars, homebuilt monsters, a 2,000 HP semi and a slew of other strange and/or amazing vehicles on the hill this weekend.

It's not an active fission reaction, so it should be fine. As far as I know, there are already several probes that use thermal decay for power.

I wish I had done this back when I was in school. I lost some pretty sweet pogs to school bans.