This car is just so much fun!
01-08-2007, 12:18 AM
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carcrazy95,
Completly agree on the car. Been driving for 36 years. I just got a new 2006 before Thanksgiving. Sold my pick-me-up truck to get the RX-8. Still have to have a minivan to hall the full family in and all their stuff. As I've said in other posts - its a blast being able to haul three teens and their stuff (Lacrosse stick, baritone, etc.) to school - and still have the "sports" car thrill.
I have the same impression that the RX-8 is a sports touring car. I had a Fiat 124 Spider that I loved and babied (despite the Fix-It-Again-Tony" reputation). The RX-8 is hands down more sporting than the Spider. The moonroof just has to satisfy my top-down experience.
Completly agree on the car. Been driving for 36 years. I just got a new 2006 before Thanksgiving. Sold my pick-me-up truck to get the RX-8. Still have to have a minivan to hall the full family in and all their stuff. As I've said in other posts - its a blast being able to haul three teens and their stuff (Lacrosse stick, baritone, etc.) to school - and still have the "sports" car thrill.
I have the same impression that the RX-8 is a sports touring car. I had a Fiat 124 Spider that I loved and babied (despite the Fix-It-Again-Tony" reputation). The RX-8 is hands down more sporting than the Spider. The moonroof just has to satisfy my top-down experience.
01-09-2007, 01:33 PM
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Yes, welcome! Thanks for the suzuki rotary story.
As a motorcyclist first, I too think the rotary is very similar to some bikes. My Fireblade revs really quick like the renesis, with high revs (12000rpm), and also has a very linear power delivery. And it's smooth as silk.
I have a BMW flat twin too, quite the opposite, a torque monster that feels closer to it's car cousins.
As a motorcyclist first, I too think the rotary is very similar to some bikes. My Fireblade revs really quick like the renesis, with high revs (12000rpm), and also has a very linear power delivery. And it's smooth as silk.
I have a BMW flat twin too, quite the opposite, a torque monster that feels closer to it's car cousins.
01-13-2007, 02:05 PM
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Hmmm..... let me see. Do I own Leno's collection of over 400 cars, most of which seem to be worth more than I make in a year (or in many years)? No.... Am I worth about a billion dollars? No, I'm a little short of that.... Am I as good looking as Jay Leno? Well, maybe there I might just have him, but then, so would almost anyone. I would gladly trade my (mediocre) looks for his, if I also got his money and his 400+ car collection (which includes an original Mazda Cosmo).
LMAO, ROFLMAO, and all those other little acronyms. Sadly, much to my mother's (and probably wife's...) great disappointment, I am, unfortunately, not Jay Leno. I think he probably would think he has better things to do than play around on a RX8 forum (though he might have one of his people do it, he reportedly employs about a dozen people full-time to maintain his car collection).
No, I'm just a new-born fan of the RX8, simple as that. There are many characteristics a car can have - straight line power, handling agility, comfort/luxury, reliability, fuel economy, styling (always totally personal and subjective), affordable price. Then there is that intangible feeling of tossability and flingability that goes beyond merely describing agility or even calculating a polar moment of inertia. What I am so impressed with the RX8 is that it offers that intangible feeling of oneness with the car - which to me is the purest essence of true sports car FUN, much more so than pure brute power or lateral acceleration (handling G-forces around a skidpad), for such a reasonable price.
Mazda itself uses the term "Jinba Ittai" in describing the new Miata. The direct translation of the Japanese idiom is “rider and horse as one.” I think it actually applies so much better to the RX8. The Miata is a lot of fun to drive as well (I've owned 2 of them over the years, and hope to get a retractable hardtop as soon as the market for them cools down a bit and it becomes easier to find one). But I think the RX8 is even so much more fun to drive than the Miata because of its rev-happy, turbine-like rotary engine and overall higher levels of performance - it truly seems to capture the Jibna Ittai spirit.
Jay Leno. Feh! That imposter! BTW, Jerry Seinfeld also is a passionate car collector (and so much better looking).....
LMAO, ROFLMAO, and all those other little acronyms. Sadly, much to my mother's (and probably wife's...) great disappointment, I am, unfortunately, not Jay Leno. I think he probably would think he has better things to do than play around on a RX8 forum (though he might have one of his people do it, he reportedly employs about a dozen people full-time to maintain his car collection).
No, I'm just a new-born fan of the RX8, simple as that. There are many characteristics a car can have - straight line power, handling agility, comfort/luxury, reliability, fuel economy, styling (always totally personal and subjective), affordable price. Then there is that intangible feeling of tossability and flingability that goes beyond merely describing agility or even calculating a polar moment of inertia. What I am so impressed with the RX8 is that it offers that intangible feeling of oneness with the car - which to me is the purest essence of true sports car FUN, much more so than pure brute power or lateral acceleration (handling G-forces around a skidpad), for such a reasonable price.
Mazda itself uses the term "Jinba Ittai" in describing the new Miata. The direct translation of the Japanese idiom is “rider and horse as one.” I think it actually applies so much better to the RX8. The Miata is a lot of fun to drive as well (I've owned 2 of them over the years, and hope to get a retractable hardtop as soon as the market for them cools down a bit and it becomes easier to find one). But I think the RX8 is even so much more fun to drive than the Miata because of its rev-happy, turbine-like rotary engine and overall higher levels of performance - it truly seems to capture the Jibna Ittai spirit.
Jay Leno. Feh! That imposter! BTW, Jerry Seinfeld also is a passionate car collector (and so much better looking).....
01-14-2007, 12:23 AM
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Originally Posted by carcrazy95
What I am so impressed with the RX8 is that it offers that intangible feeling of oneness with the car - which to me is the purest essence of true sports car FUN
Originally Posted by carcrazy95
Mazda itself uses the term "Jinba Ittai" in describing the new Miata. The direct translation of the Japanese idiom is “rider and horse as one.” I think it actually applies so much better to the RX8. The Miata is a lot of fun to drive as well (I've owned 2 of them over the years, and hope to get a retractable hardtop as soon as the market for them cools down a bit and it becomes easier to find one). But I think the RX8 is even so much more fun to drive than the Miata because of its rev-happy, turbine-like rotary engine and overall higher levels of performance - it truly seems to capture the Jibna Ittai spirit.
Originally Posted by carcrazy95
Jay Leno. Feh! That imposter! BTW, Jerry Seinfeld also is a passionate car collector (and so much better looking).....
Alright, no one else probably remembers those AmEx commercials.
01-14-2007, 11:01 AM
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Originally Posted by RX8Maine
I think I saw somewhere (on this forum?) that Jay Leno owns an 8, and that it is among his favorite cars to drive.
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