From Ausrotary.com:

Lads and Laddettes,my chiky at the moment is holidaying in Japan.Got a phone call yesterday from her,she had just left the Mazda factory in Hirosheema after goin on the tour of it and the museum.She was nice enough to take a couple rolls of film and captured all the sites for me.I cant wait to see them,should be killa.Probably the most exciting bit is that when on tour through the actual factory she witnessed the RX8's gettin put together on the Lines!!!!!!Unfortunately she wasnt allowed to take pix of it.

But then again a girl could easily mistake an rx-8 for a Mazda 6 or an MX-5 hardtop or a pencil sharpener for that matter. ;) But why would they stop her from taking pictures of a pencil sharpener :D

-pete

a pretty unuseal girl that wants to go on a tour of a car plant and would go all the way to hiroshima from aussie. Thats a girl that must at least know what it looks like. Mind you all girls arn't stupid about cars. And if this girl says they are making rx-8s there I would say thats more than possible.

Also the 6 is already in production they have nothing to hide on that car the Tv ads are going to start very soon I don't see why they wouldn't be able to take pix if it was the 6 because that would be free publicity. Now the 8 is different because it isn't officially done yet.

I got the impression she didn't go there just to see Mazda! Yeah it doesnt seem likely they would stop photos of the production of the 6 unless they were doing something unique with their assembly. So if it is the 8 which it probably is, why is it in production 3 months earlier than EVERYONE (I include mazda and bwob (Bob Jennings) ) expected, and does this mean they will bring the release forward?

-pete