RX4's speed and handleing?
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RX4's speed and handleing?
Can anyone give me some first or second hand info, on the RX4's factory speed (like 1/4 miles time), and handleing.
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I have the original Car&Driver from March 1974 with the Rx-4 test in it. C&D got 0-60 in 8.9 seconds and the 1/4 in 16.8. These were great numbers in the emissions equipment-choked mid-70's. If you just take the emissions stuff off them and put a nice header on there it drops right into the mid 15s for the 1/4.
The comparisions that C&D made were interesting:
The Rx-4 is about 1.5 seconds faster (in the quarter) than both the Musang II and Toyota Corona, but is cheaper than both those cars. 70-0 braking was on par with the Camaro Z28 at 193 feet (a couple feet more than the Camaro).
btw the price as tested was $4310...base was $4150 + $60 for the radio, $50 for axle locating links, $50 for dealer prep.
"You simply can't buy such a combination of performance and finely culivated manners anywhere else. So the Rx-4 is a benchmark car. Others can exceed it's strengths on certain fronts - fuel economy for example - but as a whole the new Mazda's virtue is well out of reach. We can only pity the competition."
I'm glad I have one...
The comparisions that C&D made were interesting:
The Rx-4 is about 1.5 seconds faster (in the quarter) than both the Musang II and Toyota Corona, but is cheaper than both those cars. 70-0 braking was on par with the Camaro Z28 at 193 feet (a couple feet more than the Camaro).
btw the price as tested was $4310...base was $4150 + $60 for the radio, $50 for axle locating links, $50 for dealer prep.
"You simply can't buy such a combination of performance and finely culivated manners anywhere else. So the Rx-4 is a benchmark car. Others can exceed it's strengths on certain fronts - fuel economy for example - but as a whole the new Mazda's virtue is well out of reach. We can only pity the competition."
I'm glad I have one...
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That ******* awsome, maybe I'll find one of my own sone.
I can't believe that the cars didn't get hardly any fater until the TII came along.
I can't believe that the cars didn't get hardly any fater until the TII came along.
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