Even Nissan wants the RX-8.
10-07-2005, 12:44 AM
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2+2 coupe focused on dynamic performance and driving pleasure.
freestyle doors
paddle-shift automatic transmission
these are some features that are very unique with our cars.
yep mazda did not invented the suicide doors but witch late-model car has them (ok ok saturn doesnt count)
i love my 8 and i enjoy driving it everytime but honestly this car does not look lilke my 8 thats for sure and it sure does not look as sexy as my 8 either. lol.
freestyle doors
paddle-shift automatic transmission
these are some features that are very unique with our cars.
yep mazda did not invented the suicide doors but witch late-model car has them (ok ok saturn doesnt count)
i love my 8 and i enjoy driving it everytime but honestly this car does not look lilke my 8 thats for sure and it sure does not look as sexy as my 8 either. lol.
10-07-2005, 12:55 AM
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Well, this is a concept, which means virtually nothing. Sure there's in influence here, but why the hell should anyone care, or use that as way to bash Nissan. That is just utterly pathetic. If anything you should be flattered, and give Nissan credit for having enough admiration and respect for the RX8 to make this concept. Hell, all car companies do it. Welcome to last century. I don't imagine this will ever see production, but this is just good business for Nissan, as it is for any car company. Personally I think a non rotary car that looks like the RX8 would fly off the showroom floors. Nissan should flat out mimick the car and slap their 3.5 liter in it. That will really have RX8 fans flipping their tops. 
10-07-2005, 08:54 AM
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Aside from hardly looking like an 8 at all, that car has got to be one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. It looks like an old Camry and a Saturn mated and then its offspring mated with a Ridgeline and made this car.
10-07-2005, 10:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Gomez
You are correct......but when Blue Eyes wakes up in the morning, he'll still be a Canadian . We need to bash each other occasionally.....it's a Commonwealth thing.
. We need to bash each other occasionally.....it's a Commonwealth thing.(Don't kill me, my wife's English)
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I don't like that car at all. Looks like a half assed copy of an RX-8 / Dodge Magnum. I get the Magnum feel from the squareish front end.
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10-07-2005, 10:10 AM
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are we done sucking mazda's dick? That car looks nothing like the 8 if anything it looks kinda like a retro thunderbird, but one that can perform.
for gods sake cars with suicide doors are not copies of the 8, the 8 was not innovative by having suicide doors, having only 4 seats in a car isnt something that was invented for the 8, a lot of performance cars have their driveshaft there. That front grille looks nothing like the front of an 8, its reminiscent to me of an infinity M or a nissan murano...ha fancy that a nissan that looks like a nissan.
God some of you people act as if the 8 was god's gift to man and is the most unique car in the world...our car looks like a longer hard top s2000 with wheel arches...there i said it.
for gods sake cars with suicide doors are not copies of the 8, the 8 was not innovative by having suicide doors, having only 4 seats in a car isnt something that was invented for the 8, a lot of performance cars have their driveshaft there. That front grille looks nothing like the front of an 8, its reminiscent to me of an infinity M or a nissan murano...ha fancy that a nissan that looks like a nissan.
God some of you people act as if the 8 was god's gift to man and is the most unique car in the world...our car looks like a longer hard top s2000 with wheel arches...there i said it.
10-07-2005, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by MazdaspeedFeras
are we done sucking mazda's dick? That car looks nothing like the 8 if anything it looks kinda like a retro thunderbird, but one that can perform.
for gods sake cars with suicide doors are not copies of the 8, the 8 was not innovative by having suicide doors, having only 4 seats in a car isnt something that was invented for the 8, a lot of performance cars have their driveshaft there. That front grille looks nothing like the front of an 8, its reminiscent to me of an infinity M or a nissan murano...ha fancy that a nissan that looks like a nissan.
God some of you people act as if the 8 was god's gift to man and is the most unique car in the world...our car looks like a longer hard top s2000 with wheel arches...there i said it.
for gods sake cars with suicide doors are not copies of the 8, the 8 was not innovative by having suicide doors, having only 4 seats in a car isnt something that was invented for the 8, a lot of performance cars have their driveshaft there. That front grille looks nothing like the front of an 8, its reminiscent to me of an infinity M or a nissan murano...ha fancy that a nissan that looks like a nissan.
God some of you people act as if the 8 was god's gift to man and is the most unique car in the world...our car looks like a longer hard top s2000 with wheel arches...there i said it.
This thread proves that fanboys are so blinded by their loyalty that anything designed with suicide doors (ala Saturn) must be a rip off of the 8.
10-07-2005, 11:31 AM
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chill. all we are saying is there is similarities and we think they got design ideas from it. Well there isnt much nowadays with suicide doors excpet the saturn but who the hell would copy a saturn(except the saturn sky that is :D )
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10-07-2005, 11:39 AM
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here i'll list the similarities
they are both cars, japanese, rear wheel drive, 2+2, have suicide doors...you guys are seeing what you want to see in everything else.
i love my 8 but im not blind.
they are both cars, japanese, rear wheel drive, 2+2, have suicide doors...you guys are seeing what you want to see in everything else.
i love my 8 but im not blind.
10-07-2005, 11:41 AM
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I don't think that we should put our car in the same category with Nissan's concept. That car looks disgusting. Our car is innovative and spectacular and deserves all the praises it gets.
10-07-2005, 11:44 AM
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chill. all we are saying is there is similarities and we think they got design ideas from it. Well there isnt much nowadays with suicide doors excpet the saturn but who the hell would copy a saturn(except the saturn sky that is :D )
10-07-2005, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Shoafb
why would they copy a car they are outselling allready?
Doesn't look like an 8 to me, looks like a really bad version of the Z maybe.
Doesn't look like an 8 to me, looks like a really bad version of the Z maybe.
) That wasn't a serious response BTW.
10-07-2005, 11:53 AM
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I like the taillights 
Remind me of the Fisker and the Z8.
Who really cares if it shares some similarities with the 8? Most cars today share something, because other manufacturers like it. I don't see too much of the 8 in that car, but even it it is incredibly similar to some of you guys, does it make that big of a deal? I just don't get it I guess.
Remind me of the Fisker and the Z8.
Who really cares if it shares some similarities with the 8? Most cars today share something, because other manufacturers like it. I don't see too much of the 8 in that car, but even it it is incredibly similar to some of you guys, does it make that big of a deal? I just don't get it I guess.
10-07-2005, 11:55 AM
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and the side vents and ceter console that runs the entire length of the interior and similarities with the placement and shape of the holes on the front facia.
10-07-2005, 12:08 PM
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Originally Posted by mike1324a
and the side vents and ceter console that runs the entire length of the interior and similarities with the placement and shape of the holes on the front facia.
10-07-2005, 12:21 PM
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it's a Commonwealth thing.
Remember, according to the world we think we are better than everyone else...so why not join the club?
:p :D I think it looks nice, not sexy...but nice and I for one welcome all sports cars and especially 2+2's....my favorite!
10-07-2005, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by rx8wannahave
Blue and Gomez...why don't you just become American citizens...then you could be friends, LOL :p :p :D
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10-07-2005, 04:28 PM
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Bummed, but bring on OU!
If that car looks like an Rx-8, something's wrong with my car... I'm not sure what theat ugly heap of artist's rendering actually does look like, but it's not an Rx-8, unless of course, my Rx-8 doesn't actually look like an Rx-8.