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Originally Posted by R8
Well supposedly just as the Boxer's shape made the Twin's chassis possible, the tiny rotary also made the RX-8's chassis and handling possible. Stuff in a piston engine, and it'd become more nose-heavy and probably no longer be a mid-engine car.
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That little worse balance(the Renesis weighs almost exactly the same as the MZR) would have been a fair trade for a vehicle that has trash for resell value. A '04 RX-8 GT is worth the same or less than a base '04 MX-5. Brilliant idea though but the implementation wasn't good and that isn't the chassis' fault.
The S2000 still had good balance and had an "inferior" piston 4 banger. So I'd say the placement is just marketing fluff. An interesting anecdote is that the two share a transmission design and it's probably one of the more common failures that the two share. :-/