any one else get blinded my by the chrome mazda emblem on the stearing wheel?

i get blinded several times and it was gawd awfully bright. kinda of annoying but hell wateva. anyone else have this problem?

Nope, i tend to wear sunglasses when ever I drive...

Nope...Well, not since I took a belt-sander to it! Now it won't be blinding anyone anymore! BuHhahhahaaa!

Hmmmmm...Maybe I should have tried some black spray paint first...oh well

this sounds familiar (http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7140&highlight=steering+wheel+emblem).

it never got in my way

I wish it wasn't on the wheel though IMO

My grandparents had this same problem with the mercedes logo on the wheel, until they took a black magic marker to it. Oh and that pesky hood orniment, they just ripped it off.

I've never noticed any glare, maybe it's because of the dark tinted windows.

hmm....thats weird when I use to drive my car I never notice it nor my friend when we took turns on our last road trip

No problem in that department. The tinted windows do help.

Don't remember ever getting blinded by the mazda logo. But it's true that a brushed metal material would have looked better.
Has anyone replaced the logo? I wonder why Mazda has not put a rotary symbol there instead. Or the RX8 lettering. I've never been fond of the Mazda logo.

I have never had an issue with it.

I've noticed the same problem and think they should have gone with something less reflective. There is significant glare from the logo during certain times of the day. One of the forum members is a pilot and indicated in another thread (which I can't find) that the NTSB cares a lot about reflective surfaces on the dash of airplanes. There was a photo of an early cabin design in that same thread which included much more polished metal -- around the gauges, as I recall. I suppose they just couldn't let go of their logo. The dash looked very cool, though, with the polished metal.

I also always wear sunglasses