firstmazda

I ordered mine from Bill Jacobs in Aurora, and just received a call that it is in. I am going to pick it up after work.
Anyone else order from there or another dealer this area?
Last week he said it would be another week or so. Pleasant Suprise.

DocHolliday

I need to swing by there after work(59 and Dielh Road) and see what they got. If anyone in the Chicago area wants to see a couple different colors the Mazda dealer in Oak Forest has atleast 3. They have silver, black, and a red one in the showroom.

DMK

Congrats!

I ordered mine from Bill Jacobs in Aurora as well. I ordered it
at the beginning of May and I was told that in the 3rd week of
August it would arrive. When did you order yours?

Mine is winning blue, rear spoiler, GT package, rotary accent
package, etc... Who did you speak with? I spoke with Chris.

Jabok82

I picked mine up from Pugi Mazda in Downers Grove. Its a red, manual g/t. It was the first one sold out of that dealership. They have a Blue one, a red g/t with appearance package, and a yellow one. They will do test drives on the red g/t.

-Kurt

DocHolliday

If I wasn't doing these monthly contracts and had a long term consistent job I would pick one up.

You boys are in the area, hook a brother up with a IT/IS job. Working one month and being off the next doesn't allow me much flexibility when it comes to cash flow.

firstmazda

I ordered my RX-8 first week in April. I did order it from Chris at Bill Jacobs and everything went very smooth. I got in at 5 and was out with the car at 7. The financing was fast and there were no problems.

The car is spectacular. I have owned a '91 Honda CRX, '93 Prelude VTEC, and a '00 VW Jetta VR6, after only about a day of driving the RX8 everything seems different. The only thing comparable is the Prelude, but RX8 handles so crisply, it is amazing.

DMK

FYI:

I stopped by Bill Jacobs (on New York street) last night
and I saw 3 RX-8s. 2 read and 1 black. It was at
night, but I think the black one was a 6-speed. It was
located in the back of the lot. One of the red ones was
an automatic and the other a 6-speed.

I've never seen an RX-8 except for pictures. After seeing
them, I'm glad I ordered one.

omagic

whats up guys?
i was just wondering how much the rx-8's are going for in IL? Actually Jabok82 i was wondering how much u paid for yours?? I want one exactly like urs, only in BLUE. I work at Wannemaker's right next store to Pugi and i have been waiting for the rx-8s to show up there.

Thanks.

Jabok82

I paid MSRP $31,300. It was the 6 speed red one, with the grand touring package. No other ad ons.

-Kurt

Jabok82

I don't know what they still have there, but I thought there was a blue 6 speed. Talk to Brad Esposito, that's who I bought mine from along with another guy on this forum.

-Kurt

BRx8

i'm the other guy that bought it from there, except i'm a little displeased with the service...getting a hold of anyone is almost impossible as all you'll get are voicemails...and even if you leave a message, they either don't get back to you until you actually go there or they call you back a week later...

oh, and they tried to rip me off an extra $500 for a 6 Disc CD changer that wasn't even there...

the first place that had the RX-8s that i know of is the Mazda dealership in Villa Park...if i had known better, i would have bought one there instead of waiting an extra 3 weeks, not being informed about the ETA of the car, and having 3 days to sell my car...

Jabok82

Yeah, I could see that. I called them a lot too but I usually got through within a day. You have to get him paged. My guess was that I was just a bigger pain in the *** than you were. If I didn't get a call back I escalated a few times and eventually I got my calls returned promptly. Brad told me there was a 6 disk in there, and there wasn't. He was misinformed. He thought it was in the Grand Touring Package. I'm debating whether or not I want to do a major overhaul on the sound system. It sounds ok, but I had a better custom system in my jeep and that had only 4 speakers.....I just don't know if I want to shell out another grand for a sound system I paid a ton for already. I really wanted the heated seats, moonroof, and stuff, I was hoping the bose system would have been better.

-Kurt

BRx8

well considering i've left several messages, i'd figure they'd be decent enough to call back...and you're right, i've been way too nice to these people...i usually leave a voicemail every two days or so...

at first i did order the 6 disc but later had it removed once i found out about the MP3 player...Brad took care of it and told me it was off the invoice...when i buy the car, he tells the finance guys there IS a 6 disc in there and that i never had the MP3 removed...so i tell him to go into the car and check...he does and comes back saying there wasn't, but he also removed the $500 from the invoice...i look at the invoice and sure enough there's $500 sitting right there...i get pissed but the finance guy just looks like he knows nothing...

in the end they didn't charge me for the $500 that wasn't there...i just hoped to be treated better when buying one of their most expensive cars...and callbacks would be much appreciated too

Jabok82

Sounds like your experience at Pugi wasn't full of 10's. How do you like the car though?

BRx8

the car is fantastic...i'd be a LOT more pissed off if it wasn't...i think i saw you one time on Warrenville road and 53 going onto I-88...i was in my 3000GT going to go show it to the buyer...

Jabok82

I drive around there from time to time. Usually when I am bored and don't want to jump on 88 right away.

omagic

I live in downers grove and i drive all around this area, so ill keep a look out for you guys. I drive a 5th Gen Black prelude that is modified. You can tell if its me by my back window, it says "TOP SPEED" for my shop i go to. Im going to buy an Rx-8 but i have to wait until the begining of March to buy one. Thats when i Grad from DeVry and will be able to afford the car. Hopefully they will have the bugs worked out by then.

-Mark

BRx8

i drive around downers grove quite a bit, along 75th street...i like driving up and down that street, it's nice, straight and not too many cops once you get more westward...either that or i drive along I355

Jabok82

I just passed 1250 miles on my car. I found a straight this weekend and took the car to 125 mph and it felt like I was doing 90mph. I had 3 people in the car so I was reluctant to take it much faster, but it was apparent it still had a lot of GO left. Its nice to be able to rev it higher now.

-Kurt

BRx8

contrary to all this "missing hp" controversy, how do you feel above 6000RPM? does it level off after 6250 like what most people are saying or is it still pretty linear? also after 7250, does it still gogogo?

Jabok82

IMO it seems like the car's speed is more controlled electronically at those speeds. Like if I punch the gas it goes at the same speed as if I just slowly put more pressure on the peddle. It went in modest increases but didn't race up to that speed. If the car didn't have that kind of hp I don't think we would be seeing the car going that fast and still have enough power to go to 145 mph easily. The seemed like it had plenty of power available. If I remember it was doing 125 at around 7k rpm, maybe a little less. I also had in addition to myself weighing 200lbs, probably another 350 divided between 3 other passengers in additional weight. I don't notice an hp problem and I don't see why these people keep complaining left and right about damn dyno tests. Who cares! The car is fast, I haven't been beaten off the line by a rice burner yet, and the women love it.

-Kurt

BRx8

hehe...so you've been egged on by ricers? if so, what kind and how bad did you beat them?

so far no one has wanted to race me at all...they've all just gawked in admiration with a big thumbs up or a REALLY long stare resulting in them speeding up to pass me and then turn their heads to either look at my headlights and/or rims...

but yea, there seems to be a lot of people that love the design and look of the RX-8

Jabok82

I'm not much of a car guy to know what they were, just civics with "these actually make my car go faster" decals. I don't think any of them were too decked out though. The best story I have so far is racing through traffic on 88 with a BMW M3, a porsche 911, and a Subaru WRX Imprezza. Just weaving in and out of traffic. It was cool, after I decided to slow down and a few of them got caught up in slower lanes, I got thumbs up from both the BMW and Porsche! That was pretty cool.

BRx8

on regular day without traffic, the M3 and the Porche would leave our cars in the dust...but i guess since there was traffic, the smaller and better handling RX-8 can weave in and out of traffic much easier...i'm surprised that the WRX couldn't keep up?

Jabok82

I don't know if it was him giving up or keeping up. I wasn't concentrating on that.

-Kurt