New RX8 Owner Here-My Initial Impressions & Thoughts after the First 48 Hours........
04-24-2008 | 02:10 PM
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From: Western Canada, eh?
^ LOL
He must've had it towed to his garage, where it sat....
Seriously,
O/P, please try again. I am interested... Also, when giving your impressions, let us know what car(s) have you had in the past.
He must've had it towed to his garage, where it sat....
Seriously,
O/P, please try again. I am interested... Also, when giving your impressions, let us know what car(s) have you had in the past.
04-24-2008 | 02:16 PM
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Hehe.....someone got it right, I am speechless.
DAMN THAT IS ONE SEXY CAR!
Good Lord, that is one sexy car I dunno if I can ever drive a "normal" car again.
Life is too short to drive a boring car.
It is a 2004 Brilliant Black Grand Touring, Black Leather with Sand trim, w/ custom chrome wheels. It will primarily be my wifes car, but we expect to trade off about 1/3 of the time depending on my work needs......and by 1/3 of the time I mean I had it Tuesday, Wednesday, today, hehehe!
Will post pics later.
DAMN THAT IS ONE SEXY CAR!
Good Lord, that is one sexy car I dunno if I can ever drive a "normal" car again.
Life is too short to drive a boring car.
It is a 2004 Brilliant Black Grand Touring, Black Leather with Sand trim, w/ custom chrome wheels. It will primarily be my wifes car, but we expect to trade off about 1/3 of the time depending on my work needs......and by 1/3 of the time I mean I had it Tuesday, Wednesday, today, hehehe!
Will post pics later.
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04-28-2008 | 12:50 AM
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Oh, I forgot to mention, and it is kind of amusing, at least to me.
My wife and I went up to Austin to test drive the RX8 and several Honda Elements. Her Celica GT Convertible got totalled recently and she was undecided about getting into another sports car. I had been pushing for an RX8 hard. But after test driving a few Elements I told myself that if she decided on a Honda Element I could live with it.
ANYWAY.........I told her that after we took the RX8 for a spin we needed to have some sort of non-verbal body signal, so that we could know what the other was thinking about the car and not be stuck in an awkward situation trying to say yay or nay with the owner two feet away.
I suggested something along the lines of her tugging on her ear to signal "I like it...let's talk Price", or a fake cough for her to signal "I don't like.....Lets Pass"
My wife said she would get the signals confused, and suggested that the easiest thing to do was a head nod to indicate "I like", a head shake to indicate "I don't like", and a shoulder shrug to indicate "Maybe".
So we take a 15 minute drive, she gets it up to 70 mph on some kick-*** curvy roads around Lake Travis, and we get back to the starting point.
I give her a eyebrow raise.........she responded with a no-hesitation enthusiastic rapid succession head-nodding like a freaking Bobblehead in an earthquake measuring 9.8 on the Richter scale.
Not only did I find it amusing, but it was also reassuring that she liked the car that much and not just because I had been pushing it.
My wife and I went up to Austin to test drive the RX8 and several Honda Elements. Her Celica GT Convertible got totalled recently and she was undecided about getting into another sports car. I had been pushing for an RX8 hard. But after test driving a few Elements I told myself that if she decided on a Honda Element I could live with it.
ANYWAY.........I told her that after we took the RX8 for a spin we needed to have some sort of non-verbal body signal, so that we could know what the other was thinking about the car and not be stuck in an awkward situation trying to say yay or nay with the owner two feet away.
I suggested something along the lines of her tugging on her ear to signal "I like it...let's talk Price", or a fake cough for her to signal "I don't like.....Lets Pass"
My wife said she would get the signals confused, and suggested that the easiest thing to do was a head nod to indicate "I like", a head shake to indicate "I don't like", and a shoulder shrug to indicate "Maybe".
So we take a 15 minute drive, she gets it up to 70 mph on some kick-*** curvy roads around Lake Travis, and we get back to the starting point.
I give her a eyebrow raise.........she responded with a no-hesitation enthusiastic rapid succession head-nodding like a freaking Bobblehead in an earthquake measuring 9.8 on the Richter scale.
Not only did I find it amusing, but it was also reassuring that she liked the car that much and not just because I had been pushing it.
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