New member here, been lurking for a little while, thought it was time to join the forum.

Planning to get the new RX-8, but it's just a question of when. Still can't decide on Velocity Red or Lightning Yellow. I've owned all three gens of the RX-7, and bought a '93 3rd gen when it was new back in '93. I loved that car dearly, but when the family came along, I was forced to trade it for a BMW M3. Now 10 years later, the RX-8 seems perfect. A light and agile rotary sports car with doors and seats for my two kids.

The only thing holding me back from placing an order now was the quality of my last '93 RX-7. The interior plastics had peeling problems, the hatch rattled, and one of the turbos kept going off line. I'm hoping that 10 years later Mazda got it right, but the RX-8 is an all new car, so we'll see. (My 1st & 2nd gen RX-7s were near perfect, can't recall a single problem.)

It's interesting that the Sports Car Compact review indicated that the proto car's high power ports were sticking and thus power peaked at about 6500 rpm. If C&D and R&T tested cars with similar problems and got 5.9 secs 0-60, that means that the production cars should have even better times.

Can't wait to get the new RX-8! Wonder if our friends in Japan have any comments about reliability yet?

My decision too.
I paid lots to get my current car cost (Acura) yellow, and it was a no brainer when I saw the beautiful yellow prototypes - then they cancelled the yellow leather option, and I was left with the 'all-black' interior, not really an option.
The other two tone interiors were Chapparal leather, which the wife detested, or the Red/Black scheme - and I was sold when I saw the metallic/mica red paint.
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Good Luck with your choice,
doc

I like the red/black two tone leather too, but I'm leaning towards the cloth. The cloth has a two tone grey/black look and will go with either red or yellow. I hope the cloth is like the one I had in my '93 RX-7 R1, which was kind of suede like. If it has the suede feel, I'll take the cloth for sure! I was torn on red or yellow for the RX-7 back then too, ultimately went with red because the wife said yellow was too loud. Same argument again now, but maybe this time I won't listen to her.:p

YELLOW
I ask 20 peoples in the office about this pic, 18 say yellow. 2 guys red, 9 guys red and 9 girls choose yellow.:D I also go for yellow, so make that 10 guys choose yellow.:p