Let me start it off :

One day I was driving like usual. around Chinatown in New York. Waiting in Traffic (sucks around that area)

I saw a Cop on a bike passby .... then I saw that cop just got off and push his bike on the sidewalk and walking towards my 8.

AT first I was like "WTF? I didnt do anything?????"

HE came, I roll the windows down ...

"Is there a problem officer ?"
"What color is this?" (I got the Black Cherry, Shinka)
"Errhmm, its called Black Cherry I believe?"
"Nice Color man, I love your Car alot !!! "
"Thanks(phew~)"

Then me and my cousin starts laughing like for couple of hours.

 

Well, my gf has a picture of her and MY car on HER myspace account, with the comment "I wonder if I'll ever get to drive it?"

My comment under her picture?

"No."

heh heh heh

But chicks definitely dig the car. Can't complain on that front.

 

I was told once that I drove a beautiful timebomb. He was glad to see Mazda had gotten back in the explosives market....LOL

 

That's funny!!!!

 

From the uninitiated non-carhead populous the positive comment that I usually get concerns the four door configuration. Anyone who asks about the car, I show them the doors. It's something that the average citizen can relate to.

Along these lines, my favorite comment was from a guy at Sears last summer when he brought out my new, boxed, window AC unit. I think that he was expecting that I would have brought the family "truck", SUV, Minivan or whatever to move the thing. He slows down and says "ummm, I can get a matte knife, and we can unbox it," and I just said, "watch this." I open the passenger door, then rear door, lower the passenger seat, and slide it right in box and all with plenty of room to spare. The look on his face was priceless. That look was the best comment that I've gotten concerning my 8.

The second best was my now father-in-law. This man in his day owned (all new) a Jag E Type, a Jensen Interceptor, two Porsche 911s, a 928, and a BMW M6, and he currently drives a V12 Mercedes Sedan. He knows fast cars . . . he also used to make me nervous. I ran across the whole family, now wife (then fiancee), mother-in-law, and father-in-law driving into the city for dinner or something. I passed them, and they all waved, then he started following me. I did NOT want to drive the entire drive into the city with my future in laws right behind me, and the way he drives, there was no way that I was going to lose him in the straights. That thing is really heavy, yet really fast. However, I had an opportunity. The merge ramp from one highway to another was an S curve. I just didn't really slow down to make the transition. I had sort of hoped that he would not try to follow me, but he did. I looked in the rearview to see the headlights of the Merz kind of at a 60 degree angle instead of level. All he said about it, as I zipped down the ramp and out of sight, was "that car is pretty fast". My fiancee went on about this for quite a while. I had a nice liesurely drive into the city with them totally out of sight, in bumper to bumper traffic.

 

My CEO looked up my 8 to compare it to his Porsche Boxter. Days after I got it, we were talking and he was quoting the 0-60, turning radius and all this other stuff. I guess he was afraid he did not have the coolest car in the company all of the sudden.

I had to trade cars with my Dad cause I had to haul some stuff. He has a small SUV. I trusted him with my 8. When I went to get it back, I asked how it was. His only comment "Does it come in red?"

 

I have a ridiculously long-distance relationship with a woman from Poland. I bought my 8 preparatory to her coming for a visit, wherein we were taking a road-trip to Philadelphia and Washington D.C. When I told her I was shopping for a new car, she made a big point of explaining to me how she isn't impressed by cars, doesn't know anything about them, doesn't care. She told a story of how a guy once picked her up at the airport in a new Porsche and expected her to be all impressed, and she didn't even notice. So I informed her that she was required to be impressed with whatever I got, and I expected nothing more than a polite, token show of enthousiasm. Fine. Well, I bought the 8, and she did genuinely seem to like it, but I didn't know how much of that was just politeness.

Anyway. I was pretty pleased when I got this in a piece of email:

So, if nothing else, her brother was impressed. In February, when I was in Poland, he was asking me all sorts of questions about the rotary.