Well, if you talk about it as a 1300cc engine, it kinda sounds big.

 

I was filling-up at the gas station and there was another rx8 there so I parked next to the guy and was chit chatting, and he actually said, "this car should get better gas mileage for only being a 3 cylinder". I didnt even say anything. He also asked me if the dealer warned me about the car getting flooded if you drived it only a short distance and said that had happened to him when they first got the car. To his defense, he did say it was his wifes car and he was just filling it up for her.

 

WHAT!! I would've smacked him upside the head and set him straight!

 

wow, that was definitely worth a

 

I had a chick at burger king ask if the 8 was the new mustang. And when I told her no she said she wished it was.

I also get the is that a V6 or V8 question alot and 95% of the people don't know what a rotary is.

On a side note I have chromed rims and rolled back a little at a stop light after work and everyone inside the explorer next to me was like omg he has spinners...

 

Some of these posts are making me cry

 

Comment today: My Civics Altezza's look WAAAAY BETTER!..



Comment #2: Yellow was the Special Edition that makes 300hp right? ME: ( Cries to self and wishes it was) ...... No, they only made yellow for one year as an introductory color. like the 350Z's yellow special edition....except the only thing special about this yellow rx is bringing it in for recalls! woot!


MY friend: I get a Boner when i see your car... when i drove it.... umm.. be right back *grabs a towel with him runs back to the car*
ME: WTF?!?
haha

 

3months after I got my 8 I pulled up to a guy in a RX-7. It was at night Summer time (110) so I had the window's down. I look over at his car hes looks over at my 8.
RX-7 "Cool car"
Me "Thats. I like you car too man"
RX-7 "How many cylinders you got?"
Me "0"
RX-7 "Right on(Thumbs up)"
Light turns green I get smoked LOL!

 

We've had the lowest national average in the country for the last few weeks, now. The state average shown in the paper is actually at least 15 cents higher than the gas in my area.

 

Yesterday while at a custom Audio shop in So Cal:

"Wow man, cool car. Is that the 4 cylinder or the GT version with 6 cylinders??"

 

I had a gent in the service dept of the local dealership tell me that you can't compression test a rotory. I turned around and left.

 

not a stupid comment, but just got my first reaction from a stranger about the suicide doors.

we went over to watch the AT&T Pebble Beach PGA tour event yesterday, and the big parking lot at Ford Ord has these young guys and girls doing the parking-usher duty. there's 3 of 'em standing right in front of the spot I'm pulling into, I get out and give 'em a thank you wave. then proceed to open the driver's suicide door to grab our stuff, and got a fright when the 3 of them (incl. one girl) all let out a howl! "Oh you *didn't* just do that!" said the one guy...as if I had just performed some type of magic illusion. the other guy then asked me if it was a custom-chop type of modification!

 

Oh no, this guys was not a gas station attendant. He was some sort of drifter who came out of nowhere.

About 31,000 miles in my car. The first or second time I posted, back in '03, I was hit with the "this has been iscussed before/do a search before you post" deal. So I've been searching and reading 99% of the time and posting the other 1%. Amazingly, all my questions have been answerd without me having to post much.

 

If they are clueless, you could come back with "It's a Mazderatti, powered by a 250-depreciating-horsepower W-Twin. (Wankel 2 rotor). I guarantee they'll drop the subject after that one.

I've personally used the Mazderatti response before. SO MANY clueless ppl out there. It's rediculous... Doesn't anyone pay attention to the commercials!!!

 

There are no commercials.

 

yes there is. the one that flashes the rotory spinning like a mad man and then you see a red Rx8 zipping corners ZOOM ZOOM ZOOOOOM!

 

Haven't seen that one.

 

What channel? When was the last time you saw it? The only 8 commercial I've seen is the freestyle door hugging one.

 

At the first DE I went to, an employee at the hotel that all the PCA members stay at asked if my car was a new ferrari. He recounted that he'd worked at the hotel for 30 years and had always seen the cars that "you porsche boys bring up" and that he'd never seen anything like it. Granted, he was a nice and quite country fellow. I told him that it was a Mazda, he asked if it was a V10, I told him it was a rotary, and he told me that he'd owned a 7 in the early 80's. He then told me it was purdy and good luck.

I kinda felt bad for the guy, but I wasn't aware that people didnt know the rx-8 existed.

 

yeah, I've gotten the Viper comment before, I just shook my head and said with a laugh "not quite". I don't get how it lookes like a Viper though, to me, it's not even close. Can't people tell the difference between cars? I mean I could accept some confusion between a Suburban and Excursion but not this.

 

There are a lot of people in my town who have no idea what it is.
I've been followed many a time just to have someone pull up and ask me what it was. I'm afraid the dumb comment of the day for me was when a friend asked me if it was a 4 or 6 cyl, and I replied its a rotary...2 of 'em. So he said "so its a 2 cyl. car? wow, must be slow.

 

at the gas station.....

" thats nice....is it fast?"
good enough for me
" it has 2 pistons right?"
no its a rotary engine
" it has 2 pistons right?"
no it has two rotor's

he just looked confused and went back to his car

 

^^ you should have responded...

YEAH, 2 pistons per cylinder!

 

that is funny