Raz for moderator, you've swayed my vote

Sorry for bringing back an old thread

 

#24267 You create a spreadsheet that calculates;

Mi/Fill, Days/Between Fill, Mi/Day, MPG, StdDev Var MPG, $/Gal, 3 w/e Ave MPG, 5 w/e Ave MPG, 7 w/e Ave MPG.

&

Average MPG 14.69
Average Tank $ $34.68
Monthly Fuel Cost 173.3833333
Ave Week Fuel Cost 43.34583333
Miles Driven 1671

(you update your blackberry EVERY TIME you fill up)

#24268 You do the slalom around other cars... really really fast... in freeway traffic

 

- Apalled when you see a dirty 8 on the road.

- Overwhelming guilt for driving your 8 dirty.

- Day dreaming about your next mod /accessory purchase.

 

holy crap

 

LOL!!!!

damn that is crazy funny hahahaha

i dont drive a rx8, but i can relate to all the aforementioned symptoms.

let's just say instead of living on campus at ucla, i decided to commute for the whole year, just so i could drive 100+ miles every other day every week for a year

yea gas is killing me, but driving so much makes me a happier man. it really does.

i've had my symptoms since the first manual car i had, and that was a 98 accord sedan....

the symptoms get progressively worse as i get better performers... help.

 

how old is this thread?? where did it come from?? but its good!! yes, i havent quite got my own yet, but i can imagine all those dream like moments when owning one. but for now, the hope of owning one is getting me by...maybe the hope is better than owning one?? but i want to buy one and maybe i'll live in it...its got enough doors!

 

omg!

 

You convince your wife to leave the kids with your sister for the weakend so you can take the 8 on its first long distance road trip.

After finishing a 1200 mile weekend road trip, you volunteer to pick up the pizza just for a chance to run through the gears again.

You are disappointed to finish the West Virginia leg of your trip....The mountain hills and curves are more seductive than Miss August.

 

You find yourself celebrating because what you thought was a ding was just a squashed bug.

You take the old car to the drive in to protect the 8 from getting anything spilled inside it.

You try to go to the car wash early because you are worried that the drying team will run out of clean towels and might use an old wet one that had touched another car.

You want to drive 400 miles, and stay two nights in a motel, just to listen to someone discuss for an hour or two, the mechanics of an engine that Detroit rejected.

 

I know this thread is amazing old, but I had to add to it...

I've only had one other car that I'd rather drive without the radio on...and that was my 97 Cobra. Love the sound of that rotary...it's just so unique and I love it's harmonic whine.

 

OMG, I thought I was the only one with most of these symptoms! Its good to know that there are more people in the world that share the same obsession as me! Here are some more:

You have pics of your car in your bedroom so it’s the first thing you see when you wake up!

You have wallpapers of you car on you PC and phone and pics on the wall in front of your computer.

I get sad when a couple of days go by without driving it.

You describe your driving experience as " On continues orgasm from the moment you turn the key till you get to you destination (except when you in traffic; that’s just foreplay)

You use the excuse to have a smoke so you can go outside and sit by your baby for a few minutes.

You vacuum and dust the interior even though it’s clean.

You have nightmares of you car been vandalized.

Your mood changes completely after driving her.

You look a people with four cylinder BMW and Mercs and you laugh to you self knowing that your car is so much better than there's and it cost allot less too!

You never take it anywhere were you don’t know what the parking situation will be.

Now that I have conffesed I feel much better!