I know EXACTLY what you mean! I'm moving out with the girlfriend and we've seen a lot of cool condos & appartments.

The deal breaker is when it doesn't come with its own garage!

I don't care if it's a remote garage in a different appartment building (like my current garage) as long as it's covered from all sides.

Screw carports and open to the element car spots!

 

I've owned two Rotary cars:

'84 GSL-SE bought in 1992, sold in '95 for a new Miata. The buyer's son totaled that Rx-7 not 3 months later. 'twas Brilliant Black over blood-red leather. I had purposely sought out an FB instead of an FC, the FB's a special car to me.

'05 Shinka, bought to replace the very same miata after it got rear-ended and broken beyond repair.

There will be more. Maybe old, maybe new. But yeah, there will be more Rotary in my garage. I know I'll have another FB. That car is very special to me, in many different ways. Some people lust after old 911s, some after old Ferraris, (I'm one, come to think of it..) but it's the humble little FB that would make me do stupid things at Barret Jackson one day.

 

81 gsl, 84 gsl 91 vert, & 94 20b fd. Even with the 20b, I still want a 1st gen gsl-se.

 

07 rx-8 at mgm
09 rx-8 r3 bbm
09 rx-8 gt cwp

 

I have three! The two rotors in my engine and my rotor tattoo on my forearm won't be the last i own either haha

 

/\ This is what I tell everyone who bitches to me about rotaries being unreliable and complicated and yada yada (minus the million miles part lol).

85 gs
88 10ae
86gxl
85 gsl-se (current)
04 rx8 (current)

I have been driving rotaries for 8 years and (knock on wood) have never had a rotary engine fail on me.

 

First one and hopefully not the last...

 

I've owned four:

1973 RX-2 Sedan1984 RX-4 Wagon1979 626 Hardtop Coupe
Bought new in December 1979, by the time I had it paid off I was tired of trying to coax horsepower out of the original 1970cc "MA" engine (super long-stroke, 98mm by 80mm bore). I tried an Offenhauser intake manifold, Weber carb, high-lift cam and high-dome pistons but it just wouldn't rev. So I found an abandoned RX-4 in a creek in Ohio, paid the landowner 50 bucks, scrapped the body in a dumpster after an acetylene torch treatment and overhauled the 4-speed manual transmission. As for the 13B engine, it received an excellent street-porting overhaul from Racing Beat and I dropped it in the 626 with a RB high-rise intake manifold, Holley carb and the coolest looking mushroom top air cleaner, also from Racing Beat. For the exhaust I used more RB parts to build an RX-7 based extended system with the longest primary length runners I could fit. All the pieces fit amazingly well, including an RX-4 radiator and oil cooler and the best of all it had the deepest exhaust sound I've ever heard from a rotary, especially at idle. Had to sell it though when I moved from Columbus to Phoenix because it couldn't pass emissions.

2007 RX-8 Touring

 

Blue 2004 RX8 is my first rotary.

Having said that, in 2004(ish) I almost bought an RX7 but two things stoped me, the price which at the time couldnt afford and the small inconvenience of not fitting in the driver side. Being slightly large on both dimensions, my knee gets wegged between the steering wheel and center console so I can only drive an RX7 in a straight line ^^

If any future rotaries follow the RX8 consideration of tall ppl, I can safely say that this RX8 won't be my last.