All you fellow RX-* NUTS, check out this out. It is not completly done yet but you'll probably like it.
:D :D :D :D :D

http://www.mazdausa.com/futuremodels...p=&did=&state=

Click on "See More" under the RX-8. Then just look around the Mazda site, like the Mazda 6.

Mazda IS HOT!!!

:p

 

:D :D I just noticed if you hold the mouse over the boxes, you get little movies. I LOVE the ones in driving dynamics, very cool.

-pete

 

look like they updated it

 

Yeah thanks to Mazda for taking the time to change your site and provide more misleading information and outdated pictures. It is now saying "targeted 250hp" and has pics of a drilled and vented rotor from the old concept. We know you have the final car by now and if you don't your in trouble because you are gonna have at least the thousand or so people on here pissed off if this car doesn't get released sometime in the first part of 2003. I was happy with the old site and actually liked it more, they could have just added a pic of the hood open or a shot of the trunk with a seat folded down and I would have been giddy. But instead they change it all around and add a crappy 360 degree view (wooo... thats innovative) with no new info. As you can tell I'm really getting aggravated so if they aren't gonna give us info they had better shock the **** out of me when they show the production version in Detroit. Deep breaths, deep breaths, count to ten...

 

I hope they rounded down 500 rpms when they say redline at 8500, and guestimated the release date to be summer 2003 give or take a few months

Although i did like the video of the 8 showin off its handling... even if it was under 1 second long

 

I don't think it said redline at 8500, I think they were talking about peak output.

I'm sure Mazda is planning on the 250hp, though they don't want to pull another Miata fiasco by overstating it, only to have it not quite deliver. Hopefully they will deliver on their promise.

Is there anything new here? The side shot of the red car with the open doors with the monocolor interior looks slightly different from teh yellow car. They had the previous RX-8 concept, but I think the one i'm talking about is an even newer than yellow car.

I'll try to post what I'm talkinga bout and see if there are any noticable changes....

Okay here we go.





It looks to me like the sides of the seats are some kind of plastic now, there is DEFINITELY a sunroof, and I think the taillamps seem to be less Altezzay. Anything else?

 

Tail lamps look similar to me...

 

Guess we won't be getting fold-down rear seats. Check out the braces behind them:



Looks like there is room between the braces for a pass-through. There have been other pictures pointing out that there is something that looks like a door between the rear seats that leads to the trunk. I think that will be the case now.

 

not 100% grim the could just b something u c wehn u look in the trunk there is still space for stuff to pass though (either way ill take safty over fold down rear seats.)

 

The main reason I want a back seat is because I want a place to throw my coat and stuff without having to go to the trunk.

That's why I'd be fine with a coupe, I'd just prefer four doors because it's more utilitarian.

 

I don't really want to rant about this again, but I can't stop myself:-

MAZDA, will you crowbar this into your cranium... "Optimized for", does not mean "Only works with".... FOR GOD's SAKE... put an "Enter anyway" button on there.

I'm running Mozilla 1.2 for goodness sake... It's got to be so much more standard than Netscape 4.7 it's just not funny. If my bank can put an "Enter anyway" button on their E-Banking site... then you KNOW that Mazda can.

 

Hehe... You must join the darkside and use IE :D

 

I'm glad I don't have the option... I couldn't deal with loosing tabs!... tab'd browsing is about the best thing ever to hit web browsing.

Actually I edited the source code to change the ID string and recompiled it... I figured out why they wanted to keep people out... their javascript is pretty poor...

 

1. Side sill changed, there are two metallic tones (where the imprint of the rotor should be and elsewhere)

2. Side scoops now have some black plastic rim around them to give thw whole thing a toy-ish look (which matches the exhaust area, and which i like alot):D

3. Side of the doors are now interior coloured insdead of bare-naked, body color metal (not really sure about this one, it's kinda an angle issue...)

4. More ample door-locking mechanisms...

ps you sure seats are single tone here? i can't really see the seats

oh yeah, F$%^N AWESOME!!! Everyone was woried safety issues might impede on the possibility of a sunroof in a no-B-pillar car, I guess engineers @ Mazda did it again!!! (err, that is if the car doesn't crumple like a 2nd hand accordeon @ 17mph impact...)

 

(I like find-the-difference games!!!)

 

I see their updated site is still mentioning a two-tone interior color scheme. Here's still hoping for multichromatic leather!

 

I'll pray with you for that one

 

How many people have emailed Mazda about this? If we all do so, perhaps they will change it for us.

 

if you click on the "performance" section of the flash site, it plays the sound of a revving engine. I was wondering if that could potentially be the renesis or even a rotary engine for that matter. Does anyone have any insight on this?

 

I've not listened... since their site won't let me in... but I doubt it.... the sound of a rotary is pretty distinctive and mazda probably don't want to confirm what the renesis sounds like just yet.

Edit: - Infact they probably havent finalised exactly what the RX-8 will sound like... minor adjustments to the pipes could make a big difference..

 

I wouldn't discount it either, because Mazda has already said that you'll be in for a suprise in the sound of the car, so hopefully we will be.

The sound on the site was pretty appealing to me

 

Go on then... I still have Netscape 4.79 installed from about a million years ago, what's the URL for the page with the sound on?

 

Won't Mozilla load the site for you?

I thought u were using that

 

OK, I take it back.... it could well be... it sounds like a rotary to me...

 

Mozilla will load the site... just Mazda have chozen to lock it out of the home page... I used Netscape 4.7 to find the page but the direct URL loads fine in Moz.

http://www.mazdausa.com/rx8/performa....asp?sniffer=1