Ray Al

Previous cars:
1. 1972 Chevy Vega 4SpdStick
2. 1963 MGB Convertible 4SpdStick
3. 1962 MGA Convertible 4SpdStick
4. 1969 Opel GT 4SpdStick
5. 1974 Dodge Monaco 400-4brl Auto
6. 1976 Chrysler Newport Custom 400-4brl Auto
7. 1976 Dodge Monaco Wagon 360-4brl Auto
8. 1976 Chrysler Cordoba 400-4brl Auto (440MagnumCarb)
9. 1981 Chrysler LeBaron 318-4brl Auto
10. 1970 Oldsmobile 98 455-4brl Auto
11. 1972 Ford ThunderBird 429 Thunderjet Auto
12. 1992 Toyota Tercel 5SpdStick
13. 1985 Honda Civic 5SpdStick
14. 1988 RX-7 5SpdStick
15. 1993 Saab 900S 3door 5SpdStick
16. 2000 Toyota Echo Auto
17. 2002 Toyota Echo Auto
18. 2003 Saturn Ion 5SpdStick
19. 2003 Land Rover freelander AutoManMode
20. 1988 Saab Turbo Convertible 5SpdStick (Summer Toy Car)
21. 2004 Mazda RX-8 GT 6SpdStick (Preferred Summer Toy)
22. 2009 Honda Element EX 4WD 5SpdAuto (All year round Daily Driver/Beater)

Flashpoint

Previous to the 8, I had:
1991 toyota corolla 4-door.. with more motor work done than any 91 corolla sedan should ever have done, lol.
1992 MX-3 SOHC 4-cyl
1996 MX-3 DOHC 4-cyl

Legot

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Yeah! This is the thread I've been looking for! Give me a minute, the old one is still sitting in the driveway...

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Here it is, the bane of my existence. It drives well, but the transmission is grindy and I hate the color. The 2003 Hyundai Elantra.



Abit dirty thanks to the dust storms, but so is everything else.

yurcivicsux

lol, nice 'ice daddy paint'!

Tanro

94 Buick Park Avenue (worst god dammned car ever, my father forced it upon me instead of fixing my s10 I inherited from my paw paw)
82 s-10. (Hand me down from step dad, he got the first one they got in at the local chevy lot in the 80s)

80-something goddamned barf green pontiac 6million or hell I dont ******* know. (Second and last piece of **** car forced on by my dad.

There was not a single damn thing good about it, it smelled aweful, it was an aweful color, "new" paint wasn't baked on properly and was flaking, bad alignment, slipping trans, bad fuel pump (would die at stops unless you two footed it, and then it would overheat).

Bad cooling fans, oil leaked from every ******* gasket on it, including the ones that had nothing to do with oil.

Brakes were shitty at best. Terrifying in most cases. It had exhaust leaks. Doors and windows leaked, and to top it offffff no ac (it was an option). So I eventuall crashed it into the river, told my dad it was stolen and refused to take a dollar from him for another car.

97 Saturn SL1 (my first car I picked out)
2002 Saturn SL2 5spd DOHC.
94 Saturn SL2 5spd DOHC (Backup beater I used while I turboed the above saturn)
77 Celica GT Fastback (started my RWD jap car passion)
96 Saturn SC1 (Dohc swap)
95 Eclipse GST
91 Talon TSi AWD
95 Eclipse GSX (Converted to 97-98 talon body style)
92 Talon Auto AWD (Hell of a sleeper, electric cutouts on 3" downpipe to a stock catback, FP Turbo, built engine, ran 10.4s for days)
88 RX7 GXL 202k + Wankel car.
91 RX7 SBC Swap
93 RX7 SBC Swap
86 RX7 Ford 5.0 swap
91 Miata Stock
88 Chevy c1500 pickup.

milos87popovic

Nice

HunterG13

Previous vehicles:

2000 Nissan Xterra (First car...sadly totaled it)
1999 Ford Expedition (Got it from the money I got back from the Xterra)
1998 Jeep Wrangler (Straight trade for the Expedition; sold to my dad and got my 8)

1.3L

Previous car was a truck, a 1990 Nissan bare-bones truck. I actually kept the truck when I bought my new RX-8 in 2004.

I kept my RX-8 nearly 10 years, trading it in last May for a new 2014 BMW M235i. The RX-8 had only 30k miles on it and was in near-perfect shape. The M235i, BTW, is turning out to be one heck of a nice ride!

I kept the truck for 24 years, giving it to my brother last September. It only had 76,000 miles on it and still runs great. Crappy paint, though.

El Conquistador

Last was a 2000 Mitsubishi Galant, a beater car for sure. It wasn't pretty or fun but it got me there.

Before that, I drove a 1989 Ford Thunderbird Supercoupe with the manual tranny. That was a fun car except that I spent more time working on it than driving it and it was hell to work on. You couldn't change the spark plugs without removing the intercooler tubes and AC compressor. The ~350 ft lbs of torque was nice though.

kozhin13

I had mustang gt 2008 modified nd i just sold it now i am interested in rx8 but dont know much about rotary engines i really need help

wannawankel

Kept it through 250000 miles. Great car.

vis_eclipse

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Started out with a 3G eclipse, then the 8. Just moved into an r35

CRAZ8

2002 Special Edition MX-5 (its still in the family.)

CRAZ8

.. and before that I owned two 323's and two MX-3 GS'

cloud19

Is that 471,xxx miles and if so how many engines did you go through?

Only reason I ask is cause I've had two acuras myself

1991 Acura integra ls auto- Loved the car but it was an auto.
1992 Acura integra 5 speed- Everything I loved about my first car just sweeter. Saw upgrades to the wheels, tires, exhaust and suspension. Would've kept the car and turbo charged it had I not drowned it in water (long story)

Steve Dallas

Prior to the RX-8, I had a 2008 Acura TL-S (sold at 270,000 miles) and a 2008 Toyota Tacoma supercharged V6 (still own at 90,000 miles). The Tacoma is my daily, and the RX-8 is my weekend and track toy.

R34me

'02 tdi jetta to '09 rx8 r3, pretty big difference

regularben

99 VW Passat 1.8t. The pic below is the day that I bought/picked up my Rx8.
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New Yorker

2004 Mazdaspeed MX-5. Velocity Red.

Fister_Roboto

2003 Dodge Dakota HD. Single cab, short wheelbase, 4.7 DOHC V8, very unique in that it was full time all wheel drive with the option to switch to 4Hi or 4Low. Sold it to get the RX-8, but I really should have kept it.

AirlockRX

Wow, that's one that's hard to come by. Still, I don't think you'll be disappointed.


Depends on how your winters are. My last mods made me put on R compound tires on the 8 for good, so now I have an AWD winter "beater".

SupraG

In chronological order, my last cars were:

- 2003 Mazdaspeed protege (street-tuned)
- 2003 S2000 (vortech supercharged)
- 2008 STi
- 2005 350Z
- 2001 S2000
- 1974 260Z
- 1988 RX-7 TII (street-ported)
- 2001 Integra Type R

The car that I miss driving the most is the Type R.

Fister_Roboto

No such thing as winter in Florida lol. I just really enjoyed that truck. It was crazy and deceptively quick (surprised a guy in a GT500 lol) and could get me anywhere I wanted to go (sandy mangroves in St Petersburg to wade fish for example).

jacknife1007

Being a kid I was suckered into trading my 350 for a 370 that I couldn't afford. I brought it back for a voluntary repo, then walked to Carmax and asked for something sporty but cheaper before the repo would hit my credit. Picked up the rx8 for way more than what it's worth ($19,900). I've been duped again. But I'm enjoying the car, and paying it off quickly. Just wish I still had my 08 350z

06rx8nate

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'99 Toyota Tercel! haha

5 speed, 4 door. It was such a small and basic car. No guts at all, but I loved it. I held on to it for a long time, sold it two years ago to a friend who recently wrote it off in an accident. I was actually sad to hear it had went to the scrapyard.. Still miss it