pepe

Well, you all would have done it too... I'm at Honalulu airport right now, but yesterday, we hired an RX-8 and drove right around Oahu (Hawaii)... what a fantastic way to get around the island, relatively, it was cheap too, not much more than a standard hire car or a couple of mopeds...

Was very strange driving A) on the other side of the car B) on the other side of the road C) with a sunroof which cuts out a LOT of headroom and D) driving a POV pack, timbo, how did you do it for so long???

The place I hired it from had some really nice exotic cars, including a Ferarri 360 Modena, F355, Porsche Carrera4S, Dodge Viper GTS, couple of Maseratis, couple of Corvettes, Hummers, etc... but the RX-8 was the bargain of the lot... here's a couple of pics for your enjoyment

timbo

You're a sad, sad case pepe:D

I bet those cloth seats were preferable to leather in Hawaii's heat and humidity....but it all sounds like fun Keep us updated with pepe's tours.

Revolver

Hey Pepe - commiserations. You're obviously doing it tough! :D

Thanks for the photos - even managed to get a black one huh?

BTW - every time I see an 8 with that fugly sunroof open I'm so glad it wasn't a standard piece of equipment. I'd pay to get rid of it!

Keep us posted on your USA sojourn. In fact, I reckon you should hire an 8 everywhere you go and post photos.

takahashi

What a life brother!

I wish I were you... (*chop chop chop). :p

Yes more pics and more story while you are travelling.

Take cure mate
Taka

Huhwha

Nice shots! I couldn't get one when I was there in December. Had to settle for a POS Sebring. At least it was a ragtop.

Got a Miata on Maui - that was fun!

EZZY

wow... nice place, wish i was there... bludging :D
you must be missing the 8 for you to hire one...... especially in black
are you coming back to oz?

pepe

The sunroof was ugly, but it was bloody handy for cruisin around Hawaii... 'cept I hit my head against the edge on a large bump, damn being tall sucks sometimes!

Petrol was a fair bit cheaper though, probably works out to about 80-85 aussie cents a litre..

I'm now in Victoria, British Columbia (Vancouver Island), but took 28 hours to get here, 3 flights (on American Airlines - they suck!) and a drive from Vancouver for which I've hired a Pontiac Grand Prix for 2 weeks... it's very slowly growing on me... I love this part of the world, very beautiful, but alas, I haven't seen any 8s yet... seen a few gen 1 RX-7s and a few ragtop gen 2 ones, but not a single 8 as of yet...

Will update soon, looks like this is turning into my travel blog.. haha

pepe

Missed this one in my last reply, yeah, I'm coming back, hopefully not for a year though, have many travels to go yet

Rough plan from here is to spend a bit of time here, then drive over the Rocky mountains to Calgary and Lake Louise, then back to here.

Then, Seattle, where I've hired a Mustang convertible, then driving down the Pacific Coast Highway all the way to LA, which is going to take about 5 days, should be fantastic... going out to Vegas and the Grand Canyon from there, over to Boston, Niagara Falls, Boston, then off to the UK... who knows what from there

Gomez

We want lots of pics, pepe!!!!

Lock & Load

Nice shots pepe good to see you enjoying yourself , i am off to the Phillipines at the end of the month FOR SOME SCUBA DIVING DENTAL REPAIRS AND SOME R & R but the island i will be staying on definetely has no RX8 .

B...free
michael