RotorMotor

It was on the second or third page of this japanese site.

I didn't know that nav had been finalized Zoom44. Bad ***!!!

RotorMotor

Here's another BEAUTIFUL pic from the same site...

zoom44

well the nav hasnt been confirmed for the states yet and since it isn't available on the mazdz6 we may not get it
on your last pic where is the hood prop rod?

Hercules

No that's like a mouse for the navigation system... other systems have different pointer devices, but for the RX-8 I thought it kinda neat

Quick_lude

Umm.. personally I hate all that plastic covering the engine.

RotorMotor

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the plastic either....

Zoom, it looks like the prop rod is still in the down posistion (along the bottom of the pic). Somebody's probably holding the hood up.

Check this out too! Looks like the center console in the rear will have some real function as well. If I'm posting a bunch of stuff you guys have already seen, let me know. I'm just stoked because I haven't seen most of this yet..... :D

Br1t1shYank

Ewwww, gross. If were to get this car, first thing I'm doing is ripping all that out and showing of that powerplant instead of a big piece of plastic. I much prefer the way I have my integra, polished valve cover, big shiny wastegate and BOV, turbo visible, stainless headers. Looks so much better than a big slab of plastic.

Hercules

Don't be suprised if they void your warranty then

It's there so that techs from Mazda do all the work instead of your local mechanic as well as for aesthetics

I personally don't mind it myself... but whatever.. it's about how it drives and its power delivery.. I can stand the cover being covered by the hood anyway

Br1t1shYank

Lol, well I'm not too worried about my warrenty. If I get one of these, I'm either getting the shortest warrenty I can find and using that up, or just forgetting about it and going right into modding it. Right now my integra is pushing over 300whp at 15lbs of boost, so as far as power output i'd probably be abit underwhelmed. But my teg is still a fwd, reletively low-range sports car, and since the rx-8 comes fast from the factory, I'm sure I could do even better with it than my teg. I mean who needs to wait for someone to develop a turbo kit (my tegs setup was put together by me). Gimme a good exhaust shop, an HKS GT t3/t4 turbo and the rest of the assorted goodies and I'll be boosting before that thing even leaves the lot ;-p.

Hercules

Your funeral

Rotaries don't respond well to turbos unless they are properly engineered to fit the car.. that being said, look at the 93 RX-7s with the TT setups that went bad, and those were put together by some damn good engineers...

Quick_lude

Ok I know you are speculating here.. Mazda better not even try crap like that with me.. voiding my warranty.. haha.. good one.

BryanH

Simple solution - keep the plastic crap and when/if the car is doing something wrong, put it back in the engine bay before taking the car in for service.

Canuck69

It dosen't nessecarily have to be window buttons. I mean in a car with a mini-disc player, it could be anything. Plus I have no problem with the windows button being right there, I mean while I have my hand on the shifter, what is the harm reaching back to hit the button. That is much easier then if it is on the door. Plus it could be something like heated seats, which is not likely since that hasn't been listed as an option anywheres. But for the sake of an example it could be for anything. SUCH AS EJECTION SEATS, for a guy who seats beside you and comments on how good a 350z looks like......phhhhhwooooobooommm and he is out of there baby!:p

P00Man

I'm pretty sure someone already said this, but those are heat switches for the heated seats. I hope that they have two diff settings (high and low). Thatd be ILL blahAHAHA
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