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To be fair, those cars were all comparatively high-priced near-supercars because of the cutting edge technology they had.
Coupled with the economic turmoil in Japan, exchange rate fluctuations and increasingly stringent emissions, they simply could not survive at those prices.
I don't think it was competition that killed them - they just couldn't survive in that environment.
Conversely, the Integra, Celica, Eclipse/Talon twins etc. did pretty well at that time.
The difference was the price point (and I note: factoring in inflation, the Toyobaru twins are actually amazingly cheap - definitely less than the last RSX-S and Celica GT-S).
Methinks the RX8 was done in by the MPGs and relatively high-maintenance rotary engine, and not competition.
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