My new daily driver...a kind of grown up hachi.

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Ian, well that is the reason why many people are questioning Nissans decision to start using their french partners engines (I believe renault?). All in all the engines in the Nissans are better then the french, but the french engines are alot cheaper and work just fine so...

Indeed, if you want to go sportcar the RX8 is a compromise, it is ment as a family car, so FC or FD is the way to go. I personally prefer the FC because I think the FD looks like a toy car. The FD is the faster and lighter of the two.
You can get a 2001 FD imported from Japan fairly easily and compared to the Z they are alot cheaper

Problem with all RX7s though, if you dont know how to treat them, you'll brake the engine within a year, and especially with turboed once, a blown apex seal means $$$$$ (which is why I stick with N/A FC). Nice thing offcourse is that these engines are massively tunable without loosing durability.

In the end, the Z is indeed a great car to drive. I did ment it was for people that cant drive cause of that traction controll
I still dont like the way it looks to much though

P.S. for a dialy driver I would by an RX8 because they are way more practical then a Z or FD. A nice FC-TII makes a very good dialy driver but a tad thirsty