The departure of the Mazda RX8 - a fond farewell, or good riddance?

When Mazda announced in April that the RX8 was being dropped from the UK line-up, there is likely to have been a mixed reaction from the nation's car enthusiasts.

As a rotary-engined sports car, the suicide-door oddity was one of the few cars to offer buyers something genuinely different to the industry's standard interpretation of what a sports car should be.