# post your thoughts on the RX8 **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [June 24, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411 "2007-06-24T20:30:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EvilJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@EvilJay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EvilJay)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/21 "2007-06-25T08:01:59Z")
1986 BMW E30 M3 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![woody](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/woody/32/7191_2.png) [@woody](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/woody)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 8:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/22 "2007-06-25T08:04:29Z")
i would like to stay outside the trend of e30s 🙂 and i would like a car with less than 40k miles, so i stay under factory warranty ---
**Author:** ![EvilJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@EvilJay](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/EvilJay)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 8:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/23 "2007-06-25T08:07:41Z")
Weak 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![skatanic28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@skatanic28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/skatanic28)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 8:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/24 "2007-06-25T08:41:11Z")
a co-worker’s son bought one over the summer. only problem i’ve heard about is a starting/restarting problem that seemed pretty common from what they were saying. ---
**Author:** ![rdandy5875](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rdandy5875/32/7511_2.png) [@rdandy5875](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rdandy5875)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 8:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/25 "2007-06-25T08:47:22Z")
I like the car overall but I don’t like a few things, crazy from fenders, and the rotary. Anen’t you supposed to shut the motor off from 4k rpm’s or something like that, when it’s cold out? ---
**Author:** ![Dex](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dex/32/7210_2.png) [@Dex](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dex)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 9:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/26 "2007-06-25T09:19:35Z")
rotary DD? what about picking up a late model e36 or an early model e46? ---
**Author:** ![woody](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/woody/32/7191_2.png) [@woody](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/woody)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/27 "2007-06-25T09:23:03Z")
bmw doesnt do it for me. i guess i dont belong on nyspeed ---
**Author:** ![Dex](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dex/32/7210_2.png) [@Dex](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dex)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/28 "2007-06-25T09:23:47Z")
[quote=“woody,post:27,topic:31411"”] bmw doesnt do it for me. i guess i dont belong on nyspeed [/quote] less posting…more logging out. thanks. \<3 ---
**Author:** ![snowracer101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@snowracer101](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/snowracer101)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/29 "2007-06-25T09:41:52Z")
[quote=“woody,post:27,topic:31411"”] bmw doesnt do it for me. i guess i dont belong on nyspeed [/quote] woody…not sure how you feel about them but…we have a porche boxter at toyota…40K miles 2004… 5spd. It’s not fast by any means…but it’s a porche and would make for a great dd ---
**Author:** ![rdandy5875](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rdandy5875/32/7511_2.png) [@rdandy5875](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rdandy5875)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 9:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/30 "2007-06-25T09:53:56Z")
Back a few years ago my boss had a boxster and a 911 carrera. Might not have been super fast, but the boxster was 100X funner to drive than the carrera. I really liked the boxster. ---
**Author:** ![dmoffitt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dmoffitt/32/7455_2.png) [@dmoffitt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dmoffitt)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/31 "2007-06-25T09:58:47Z")
box \> rotard all mazda (current / production) cars are lame. zoom zoom, my ass ---
**Author:** ![Dex](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dex/32/7210_2.png) [@Dex](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dex)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/32 "2007-06-25T10:04:24Z")
[quote=“sedlmeier101,post:29,topic:31411"”] woody…not sure how you feel about them but…we have a porche boxter at toyota…40K miles 2004… 5spd. It’s not fast by any means…but it’s a porche and would make for a great dd [/quote] that’d be an awesome car. i bet it’s considerably more than what he is looking to spend. ---
**Author:** ![9ONA3OOZX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9ona3oozx/32/7242_2.png) [@9ONA3OOZX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9ONA3OOZX)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 10:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/33 "2007-06-25T10:14:16Z")
[quote=“Dex,post:32,topic:31411"”] that’d be an awesome car. i bet it’s considerably more than what he is looking to spend. [/quote] i was thinking that, and usually DD’s are driven all year aren’t they? i dont see a boxter making a good yearly car in Buffalo… ---
**Author:** ![Dex](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dex/32/7210_2.png) [@Dex](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dex)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 10:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/34 "2007-06-25T10:16:50Z")
[quote=“90NA300ZX,post:33,topic:31411"”] i was thinking that, and usually DD’s are driven all year aren’t they? i dont see a boxter making a good yearly car in Buffalo… [/quote] woody can drive anything in the winter. he proved it 2 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![RedrRocket](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redrrocket/32/7193_2.png) [@RedrRocket](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RedrRocket)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 2:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/35 "2007-06-25T14:14:42Z")
all i can say is the rx-8’ mazdaspeeds in the grand am GT class were SEcs on wheelz when they ripped past at 9 grand. ![http://www.grand-am.com/CONTENT/Photos/Gallery/2007/062407MOGT8000007.jpg](http://www.grand-am.com/CONTENT/Photos/Gallery/2007/062407MOGT8000007.jpg) my father has a turboII FC. and getting stranded with the hot start flood issue sucks ass. Im sure the rotary forums can lead to a fix. the wankle is a interesting powerplant. ---
**Author:** ![woody](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/woody/32/7191_2.png) [@woody](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/woody)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/36 "2007-06-25T18:50:25Z")
although i did prove to a lot of people that you CAN drive anything in the winter 2 years ago, i had to move a boxster around the parking lot at nissan just this past february… it didnt move much. with just an inch of fresh snow on the ground, it couldnt make it up a 5 degree incline. fuck a whole bunch of driving that year round, even with snow tires. that and its probably out of my price range anyway 🙂 my budget is about 20k the 8 with snow tires should be just fine in snow. it’ll make for some fun dorifto action too 🙂 basically what it comes down to is im not going to have the z back out this year. i want a fun car that i can drive year round as a daily so i can at least enjoy the summer a little. the more i read about the car, the more i like it. i dont think ive ever seen a consumer rating of 9.5 on edmunds for any car before… now i have. i do want to hear more about this flooding problem though. ---
**Author:** ![sureshot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot/32/7578_2.png) [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/37 "2007-06-25T19:19:26Z")
my friend drove an rx8 through the winter and owned one for around a year or so. you can email him at [pdewald@nanodynamics.com](mailto:pdewald@nanodynamics.com) his name is paul, you can tell him adam sent you ---
**Author:** ![woody](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/woody/32/7191_2.png) [@woody](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/woody)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 7:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/38 "2007-06-25T19:22:27Z")
[quote=“sureshot!,post:37,topic:31411"”] my friend drove an rx8 through the winter and owned one for around a year or so. you can email him at [pdewald@nanodynamics.com](mailto:pdewald@nanodynamics.com) his name is paul, you can tell him adam sent you [/quote] was it an enjoyable experience or did it end poorly? ---
**Author:** ![sureshot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot/32/7578_2.png) [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/39 "2007-06-25T19:35:53Z")
he liked it… i didnt mind it, i dont remember his reason for selling but i dont believe it was for any other reason than he realized a 36k car may have been a mistake at that point in his life lol ---
**Author:** ![Bluetwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a587f6/32.png) [@Bluetwo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bluetwo)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411/40 "2007-06-26T13:53:10Z")
I drove mine through last winter. No problems with snow tires. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411.md?page=1) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/post-your-thoughts-on-the-rx8/31411.md?page=3)