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When buying a sports car, it is not enough to be wellâ€"heeled. You need to be wellâ€"inâ€" formed. You need to look for impartial reviews and facts, rather than an emotic name. To say that the Mazda RX7 has received rave reviews is not the exaggeration it seems. Motor magazine enthused about ‘Mazda‘s inâ€" stant entree to the thoroughbred class‘ while Motor Sport described the car as ‘a league away from the old hairyâ€"chested sports cars, delightfully civilised and practical‘. Svtudy the reviews and you will appreciate why it has become a rational alternative to the Porsche 924. The RX7 has a rotary engine, an engine with an interesting combination of virtues. ‘The smoothness of a Vâ€"8, with the power of a 1. £ . WEDNESI OF WATERLOO 15 UNIVERSITY AVE. E. â€" 885â€"5090 SALES ® SERVICE ® PARTS ® LEASING six and the low weight and compactness of a conventional four‘ was how Motor described the rotary concept. After developing and refinâ€" mg- the 'engine for sixteen years, building a million of them in the process, we can but agree. Most of the car‘s qualities stem irom th. rotary engine. Its low weight gives the RX7 a low centre of gravity and an almost ideal weight distribution. At the same time its small bulk helps achieve an aerodynamic body shape, cutting the drag coâ€"efficient to 0.36, one of the lowest of any car. As a result fuel consumption is reduced and windâ€"noise is alâ€" most unheard of. The car proved itself with a ve 1978, when RX7s came first and second their class in America‘s answer to LeMans, the Daytona 24 Hour Endurance Race. In the same year, an RX7 with a standard bodyâ€"shell broke the world land speed record for touring cars, reaching 183 :â€":m.p.h. on the Utah sait flats. Here at home (should you have access to a private road) you will be able to cruise at well over 100 m.p.h.. and with your foot down edge the needle round to 120. You will be able to accelerate from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in 8.6 seconds. Reporting on a series of tests of the RX7 and three other sports cars, a journalist with Motor wrote ‘Porsche or Mazda? That‘s the real issue. And it‘s not an easy one to resolve‘. We wouldn‘t be so nonâ€"committal. e MAZDA e VOLVO e BMW