Replaced my 8 with a BMW... and I'm coming back.
 

Maybe.

I mean, I love my E90 330i. It's a 6-speed sport model (tighter suspension, power side bolster seats, big wheels/tires), but I'm just kind of not into driving it like the RX-8.

I used to look forward to driving the 8. It didn't have the grunt or the refinement of my 3 series, but it didn't matter. The seating position, the communicative steering, smooth hum of the rotary, the short shifting... it was so very zen.

I sold my 8 when gas here in San Diego was about $5/gallon. With the 8's crap mpg, I was spending over $450/month just in gas. My 330i gets about 24 mpg.

Anyway, I'm thinking of buying another 8. Probably a 2006 or 2007. If you have an 8, keep it! There's really nothing like it.

Are you going to trade the BMW in for the 8 or keeping both?

Nice to hear, welcome back. :)

wooooooo - if you come back - welcome back! if not, still cool to know another person who appreciates the 8 like i do :D:

i trade u lol

sounds awesome!
hope to see you back!

That is EXACTLY what I am doing!!!!! And that's the explanation I give too!! I tell my friends who bash my 8s 0-60 that I'll just get on my bike and destroy them hahahaha.

nice to hear someone who actually loves the rotary

well im doo for my rotary tattoo once i come back from my soldeirs qualification in alberta... cN'T WAIT :)

I concur.

They have soldiers in Canada? :lol: J/K

lol were called secret soldiers.. go in as peace keepers and then we strike..

but not me im in communications research.. not my job to fight, i get a desk lol

I hear ya.....I went from an 05 RX8 GT to a Mazdaspeed 3 to a BMW 545I and back to an 09 R3. I plan on holding on to the R3 in hopes that it becomes rare like the RX7 R1.

I just hope gas doesn't go sky-high again.

btw, the new rx-8 interior is awful. what were they thinking? the steering wheel looks like what a previous-gen rx-8 steering wheel would look like.

Heh.. I just bought a leftover 2009 R3 because this car just gets in your head. There is nothing else like it. Screw the mileage, I have a VW diesel for that.

lol welcome to Alberta!

Ever since I drove an R3, I have been wanting one so bad. Made my Series I seem no fun, which I had to sell anyways, and now I drive a '99 Cavalier. I just hope I can find a quick $45,000 so I can have an R3 as a summer car.