You know you've got it when:

1) You drive 20 miles to save a nickle per gallon.

2) Getting there is 95% of the fun

3) You REALLY don't care when somebody blows by you going the speed limit + 30

4) You would rather drive than fly

5) You prefer the scenic route even though you are too busy looking at the road to notice the scenery.

 

You downshift and redline the gears for no apparent reason.

You open the rear doors all the time.

You check yourself in the shop window everytime you drive past.

You check your oil all the time.

 

Your always at the gas station!

You check yourself in other peoples clean cars at the stoplight.

 

Your wife gets the ***** because you're always in the garage.

Your wife gets the ***** because you're always "out for a drive."

Your wife gets the ***** because all the young girls check you out.

 

you spend all your time at home and work on this forum because you put you're car in storage Oct. 2 but can't read enough about it and do not have access to even see it until April 16th and you are constantly buying new things for it but since you can't even see the car you have this pile of parts in your basement collecting dust and you feel like you GOING TO FREAK OUT BECAUSE APRIL 16TH WONT COME FAST ENOUGH AHAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

(I think it's safe to say im infected with the fever)

 

I think you need to go to the dealer every two weeks for a scheduled test drive.

 

...when you live in Illinois but drive to Wisconsin for a case of beer, just to get some seat time :D

 

You read threads like this, and you understand and enjoy them! :p

I'm 50 years old and I love my car! How weird is that?

 

Just cause it feels like I've just turned 17 again.

Sometimes weird is good!

 

you take long looks at other eights, sometimes even the same color and package as your own

 

Dont forget the classic "second look back" as you walk away.. I still find myself doing this repeatedly. .. repeatedly.. repeatedly..

 

^^^ agreed :D

... and you actually feel pity for everyone around you driving piston engines...

 

You have rx-8 cards you leave on other rx-8's in the area inviting them to visit this message board.

After shopping, you take a lap back in front of the store so everyone can see :D

 

I do that too. Several times, to see if its parked right between the lines evenly, to get a look of how nice it looks, to look at the tires when they are turned at an angle. I look around to see if anyone is watching this procedure I am doing. I like to see the lights flash when you press the lock button. LOL

 

- You sit at the table for dinner in a position you can stair at your 8.
- You sit at a restaurant where your 8 is visible from the front, dang that front is awesome!
- You drive down the road constantly searching for another 8 so you can see what you look like.
- You park in places that everyone can see, preferably alone (helps with dings as well but more for show).
- You constantly remark to your wife how you really don't drive fast... yea, right!
- You drive like screaming hell up to the speed limit but back off just to keep from getting busted and are satisfied for a few moments, until the next red light.
- You turn your stereo off just to here the engine.

By the way, I like that rx-8 cards idea mrthundercleese.
SpinninAgain!, I'm 52 and feel 17 when I drive.

 

...you're in denial when the words **** and rx8 are in a sentence directed towards you

 

......when you don't mind driving your wife to the salon and then the mall to shop
......you volunteer to use the 8 to carpool knowing there are 6 people and you have to make 2 trips
......you wake up in the middle of the night, realize it's starting to rain and you move the car into the garage

 

- Or you love when your wife wants to take the 8 out for a spin so you can see and hear what it looks like from the outside while she peels off



Good one... I'm finding myself muting the stereo more and more lately- mechanical music babeee!

 

You beat me to it. I thought about it while I was at wendy's today for lunch, not saying i was doing... this... though.....

Me Too.

 

You do your best to bring all RX-8 Owners together just to stare at 20 or more cars just like yours!!!!
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You know, my girl always complains about that. "Why you always wanna go see them cars... they all look just like yours.. you see it every day!" I don't see what the big deal is. :D

 

SpinninAgain.....dude....age has NOTHING to do with it!! :D :D


I can't believe so many share many of the same symptoms. I thought I was the only one who...

1) Requested the hostess seat us somewhere in the restuarant where I could see the 8.

2) NEVER drives it to the mall, or worse......WAL MART.

3) Only parks in regions of a parking lot, so far out and away from other cars, that nobody else on Earth could possible want to park.

4) Bought each of my daughters their own micro-fiber buffing towel.

5) Keep the radio in the garage playing at night...for her.

6) After getting to work, press the lock button on the remote 5 or 6 times as I walk in the building, imagining the horn is her saying "buh-bye."

7) If I take her to the store, leave one on my kids in the car so they can growl at people who get too close. :D

 

LOL…I can see that happening cause I have an old car and I just don’t like driving it sometimes.


What? An RX8 outside of a garage…what are you thinking man? LOL

Wife drives away in the 8……..does not compute…ERROR ERROR…LOL, My wife does not now how to drive stick too much so I don’t think I’ll ever enjoy that one.

A NEW ONE…(I got all of you beat)

Having dreams of the RX8, living at this website, making my wife jealous ALREADY mind you, and hearing ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM after each prayer to GOD.

And…I don’t even own one yet…

 

aaaaaaaaahhhhh never never never!!! wal-mart is the bane of my existance

 

of course, today someone dings my white 8.

anger.