Philadelphia Area Lounge
 

discuss anything you want outside of meets in the Philadelphia area. :)

Favorite shore town : Ocean City

Isle of Palms, SC :rock:

That's cheating, dadeck! I meant nearby! It IS a Philly Lounge.

In that case...Sanibel-Captiva.

yep it's a great little town by the jersey shore. how about somers point?

Wildwood (but in the summer) Some hot car shows are done there every summer.

OK, OK...then I say Sea Isle City... :kiss:

No beach; has liquor, though!

has a beach small though.

When the "big one" hits, Somers Point WILL be beachfront!

i drove up from DC last week on business, and stayed at the Downtown Marriot at 12th and Market. Drove the Rex, and it was a nice drive. Didnt' let the valets park the 8, so did the self park thing in a nice garage across the street on Filbert. I must say there are some big potholes in Philly though. Manholes are really low also. And whats with all the bags and debris flying everywhere? i guess it was windy.

All in all, had a nice time. Philly's cool.

hahahaha did you have a chance to go out at night? philly emits a strange odor at night.

ha, i did drive in at night, around midnight to be exact, and seriously, i felt like an M1 tank on a mine field dodging huge potholes, and bags and leaves, and bottles rollin on the streets. not sure where the leaves came from. last time i check fall ended a few months ago

the sanitation department apparently takes most of the week off.

Wheres the bathrooms in this lounge? :)

i've lived around philly all my life and now that i have my 8, i try to avoid going to the city as much as i can, unless i can hitch a ride in my gf's beater :hahano: had a prelude with nice rims prior to the 8, it fought against the philly streets, and the streets won :mad:

Philly streets ALWAYS win! I have problems dodging stones that trucks throw off on the Schuykill x-way... :mad:

my point exactly!!! :mdrmed:

gotta love the alternating one way streets in center city too.

Whenever I go into Philly (or Trenton for that matter), I take my beater car.

Anyone going to the Auto Show next week?

If I get to the Auto Show it will probably be this Sunday, got other plans this Saturday and next weekend.

The reason for all of our potholes, we don't have enough snow to fill them in this year.

LOL, shhhhhh, don't jinx it!

Then again, I swear I can feel the tread melting off my snow tires :(

it's been great without the snow, hope it stays that way

Im going Mon, late afternoon-evening after work.

We'll pay for this weather somehow, it always balances out!

almost too good to be true. we're doomed now. a blizzard is on the way. :rock:

I predict it'll be in March, right when my sister's baby is due. :Eyecrazy:

First weekend in March: I'll be flying to London & wont get out of JFK!

I travel around the state a lot for work, I sure have loved not dealing with snow. Watching my snow tires melt is just fine by me. Maybe if we think snow (like the 96 Blizzard) we can ward it off. Everyone together now...wish for snow to keep it away.

On the other hand global warming could mean we get to run our summer tires year round!

Has anyone made it to the car show yet? I'm planning on going this afternoon.

anyone get to the carshow? Is the concept version 2 mazdaspeed 8 there? If anyone is going after reading this get some pics if it is.

Im going around dinner time. I plan to take some Mazda pix. I'll post anything interesting.

Went to the car show this afternoon and came away thinking it was pretty lame. The Mazda section had nothing special. It only had 1 2005 white Rx8. The tuner salon contained another Rx8. There were barely any concept vehicles by any of the manufacturers.

I agree. Only one 8, a white, at that. I asked why the 8 wasnt being displayed more & the Mazda rep said, "Well, it's the 3s & 6s that sell!"

I'll try to add a few pix.

Sorry the mod pix is so dark, the lightning wasnt too good. Whose 8 is that anyway?

And here's me in my new winning blue.......Porsche Boxster.

thats why you make the drive to the new york autoshow instead of philly

That can't be done as easily and changes the entire dynamics of going.

I went to the auto show on Sunday and was pretty dissapointed. Mazda's display sucked. They had the CX-7 and that's about it. The rep there tried to hard sell me on the CX-7. When I told him I wasn't interested, he asked me why. I told him it didn't have a stick, and it wasn't a rotary. He said "what about the RX-8?" I told him I had one and he looked at me funny (I'm a big guy).

So I sat in the white RX-8 and my buddy made fun of me saying "You have one!" (that made the rep take notice). I responded that I hadn't sat in mine today and just had to get my fix. :)

The rest was just as bland. I wanted to see the Aston Martin DB9, and all they had was the Volante and the Vanqusih. I was also looking forward to seeing the IS 350, but I had to wait forever to actually sit in one.

<RANT> I waited for nearly ten minutes while a mother let her two children (both under the age of ten) climb in and out and around a Lexus IS 350 - she never got in the car. At the adjacent IS, there was a family from Russia having salt talks on the IS vs the father's BMW. That's fine and great, just look at the damn car, sit in it, get out and go someplace else to talk about it!

Also, the last time I checked, most five year-olds did not have sufficient income to purchase a BMW 5 series. I, OTOH, do. So why the f$&k would you let your five year old sit in a BMW 5 series (the driver's seat, no less) while you're off looking at Nissans???

Parents, the auto show is NOT an expensive playground for your kids. Please do not let them climb in and around in the places where their little limbs and appendages could easily get caught in the various heavy doors and hatches. Not to mention, let them cause damage to said expensive vehicles, themselves.

Christ, people can be really, really stupid. :mad: </RANT>

When I was there Mon night, two 20-ish guys were in the Aston-Martin "compound" drinking slurpees all around the cars! Where was the A-M rep? How did they get in there? And why were they allowed to be sloshing their icees by the cars?
I wasnt impressed with the Mazda reps in the least, either, MR. Since I love the 8 so much, I felt like I should've been there selling it! (And I wouldnt have had the white on display either!)

There were people in the Aston Martin area on Sunday, too. I think they were allowing certain people to come in and look at the cars, but I didn't see anyone in any of the AMs.

I agree totally about not having the white 8 there. Why not a Shinka at least, or even better, a Mazdaspeed? Something that says "Hey look at us!" :rolleyes:

Was it me, or did Subaru not have any regular STIs at their display? I saw some of the tuners, but I looked all around for an STI to sit in and couldn't find one. :confused:

I thought I saw one Mon night, but Im not sure. Wasnt looking for one because Ive been in one before. (I was checking out the Charger SRT8, though). I'll ask my daughter's boyfriend-he would have noticed. He manages a car detailing shop here in Jersey & was checking everything out.

and the snow begins :wallbash: i just got back home, it was crazy out there, my civic lost traction going down a hill around blue bell, pa and ended up on someone's lawn... surprise there are still good people out there that's willing to go out of their way to lend a hand :)

bump.

Any one out there know of any good tuner shops for the 8 in on near Phila?

Hey i was driving home the other day and saw a Silver Rx8 and a Charcoal Grey rx8 parked around 3rd and bainbridge in Phila. the cars were there yesterday as well. do they belong to anyone on the Forum? i live at 3rd and Kater. :rock:

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Hey, RX-Gr8, good to see you lurking around! I think all our Philly area posts have been about meets lately. I all but stopped posting in the "spotted you.." because no one I spot is ever here. It can be lonely being an 8 owner!