*The WTF RX-8 Chronicles*
 

Post the wtf stories if you have them.

Only rule - complete honestly, no puffing or exaggeration. We'll go on the honor code, but please, please keep it real.

I eat healthy, but sometimes you just can't for whatever reason.

Pulled into Burger King because my one fast food vice is BK Whoppers.

Ordered my food - exactly one whopper (no onions - bleh).

Charlie Brown wah wah wah wah sounds from speaker. Fine. Whatever.

Pulled up to window 1 to pay. 15 or maybe 16 year old girl, eyes bugging out, immediately says "dude, that is the sweetest car I've ever seen! Sick! What kind of car is that?"

Me (kind of surprised): "It's a Mazda RX-8. You like it?"

Her: "Dude, that is so awesome!!! How much was that, like 50 thousand, omg, it is so cool!"

Me: "No, it wasn't close to that much. I'm glad you like it."

Her: "I am going to become a paralegal, and that's the car I'm buying. What is it? A RS8 (inaudible)?"

Me: "No, it's a Mazda RX-8. Study hard. You'll get one soon. Do well in school."

Her: "Dude, you are so cool. If you ever are around again, take me for a ride, because that car is so sick."

Me: "Okay. No prob. Thanks a lot."

Her: "You're change is $2.06. Thank you."

Me: "Okay. Thanks again."


I pulled up to window # 2 where there were three teenagers hovering over the window, with one of them handing me my whopper."


The WTF RX-8 Chronicles!!!

um i have a short one. similar to the OP.

So i was pulled on the freeway for going 85 by a cop and then i take the nearest exit pull over. By this time, i had debadged all the original emblems and only had the mazdaspeed one on the rear. Then he walked over to my window and these were his exact words:

"How much is this car worth? Did daddy shell out 80k for you to be speeding?"

then on the ticket it displayed "Vehicle: Mazdaspeed RX-6" even after seeing my proof and insurance and registration.

WTF

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i pull into a gas station (we have people fill our gas in NJ:rock: ) so this older guy comes over and as she's a fillin he says "HOW FAST THIS THING GO? 120?" usually i'll just laugh but he was starin right at me so i said "160. on a slow day" he was like "oh wow" aha i have an 04 AT hahah. i also love those "what kinda car is this?" ones. "IS THIS A MASERATI?" rofl

So I go camping on weekends sometimes.

I was out in Isleton CA unpacking my stuff from the car and this old greybeard walks up to me and my car and looks it over appreciatively. He had to have been over 70.

OGB: "Beautiful car, Does the RX line still have the rotary engine in it?"
me: "sure does brother. It's a wonderful engine isn't it?"
OGB: "Yup. I used to have a pickup truck with a rotary engine in it very smooth."

We chatted a bit longer about the 8, and parted ways. I was blown away about meeting someone who knew so much history about the wankle.

My friend's mom: The RX-8 is the successor to the RX-7 right? It uses the rotary engine.

I suspect my friend's mom used to work on cars when she was younger, because her mechanical knowledge is much better than what one would expect of an asian mom.

I bought my RX-8 a few months ago and a few weeks later I went to visit my family in Colombia, South America. Mazda has a HUGE market share down there with Mazda3's and Mazda6's, but they don't offer the RX-8, so very few people know about it.

At a xmas dinner all my uncles and aunties are asking me questions:

"So we've heard you bought a car. What is it? A Mazda 3 like your moms?"

"No, even better, it's an RX-8"

"Er...oh....nice..."

At this point most of my family goes silent....but then a voice from one of my younger cousins screams:

"You're freaking kidding me, right??!?!"

"no, why?"

"I don't believe you!! Are you serious???"

"Yes, I'm very serious, why???"

"Thats the car I have in my Playstation racing game!!!!! OMG...you really have one????"


I could not stop smiling for hours....

Co-worker: "Wow, is that a Porsche???"
Me: "No, it's an RX-8"
Co-worker: "What? It's a Porsche RX8?"
Me: "... Nope, it's a Mazda RX-8"
Co-worker: "Oh, Mazda"

Happens all the time... Im debadged as well so when I m outside washing my 8 I get little kids on bikes and people of all ages walking by ask me if its a porsche, lambo, ferrari... ect... lol I explain to them that it is a Mazda RX-8, and always the same reaction a MAzda what?? Except for anyone who has played a racing video game, they always know

It doesnt help that I own 1 of 3 RX-8's in my town!!! Pretty small

Getting out to get mail at the Post Office, an Oldguy and Grandson walk in front of the car,

Oldguy tells Grandson "that's the new Supra - see the 'Toyota' sign on the front?"

I say "it's a Mazda, that's not a 'T' it's an 'M'....."

Oldguy get's all huffy and starts SHOUTING! "... it's a 'T', it's a Toyota Supra!!



:rolleyes: Whatever:rolleyes:


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Months ago.... was being followed/taunted(freeway) by a later model Predude, i ignored him.

reach my exit, a descending 180 right, i take it quick but not too fast as i was on BALD tires. Prelude slides out of the road. I stop to go check on him, make sure he didnt hit guard rail etc...

had to help push his car back onto road cause when he slid, he panicked and hit reverse at speed... completely blew reverse out of the tranny....

he asked what kind of car... i told him... he said "Wow......"

On the way down to Sevenstock last fall with Kristopher_d and Zoom44 we stopped in Oakland Oregon for lunch. Population must have been at least 15 or 20. We parked on Main St. and went in and had a great lunch at a local restaurant. We came out and there was this old couple sitting on a bench in the shade. The guy walks over and says out of the blue: "Does Mazda still put the Rotary in their RX's?"

We were completely floored. We smiled and enthusiastically shook our heads. He said he had a couple back in the day and still wishes he had one. We talk to him and his wife for a bit. Then smile and go on our way. Who'd a thunk it??

I get undeserved compliments about my car all the time, which is a testament to Mazda's style department as I hammer my car pretty good, but this one might take the cake;

I had a couple of kids(a 12 year old boy and a 14 year old girl) from Jehovah's Witnesses doing their door-to-door service. I answered the door and spoke with them a minute and they kept smiling at me while I told them I would be happy to read their publications. Then, there was a pregnant pause from the two of them as they smiled, ear-to-ear. Then the boy blurts out, "Sir, I think your car is really cool.". So I said "Thank you", and told him how my new job is to make racing parts for it. His sister just nodded along while he was talking and then agreed with him. He just kept repeating himself as he backed away from my door. I had to caution him not to fall off my porch!

I went to the wawa [chain convenience store around here like 7-11], and as I am walking passed the beer distributor, this guys comes out and says, "I can't believe you spent $125,000 for that car." He's a little drunk and way stupid, but I was still sort of shocked. Never seen the guy before in my life, and I respond with, "what?". That car is like $125,000 right?" I said no that I spent under 30K for it new a few years back, and I didn't know what he was talking about. He says that he had read an article and that Audi was $125,000. I pointed out the Mazda symbol on the nose. Told him that it was an RX8 and not an Audi badged Lamborghini, and besides if somebody did want to buy a $125K car what business was it of his. Weird conversation.

Geez I hate cops so much

puts a smile on my face everytime someone tells me i have a nicee car XD...then the WTF face when i told them how much it costs lol

I think he could have taken that ticket to court and got it rejected, as he doesn't own one of those cars. Personally, I wish the cops around here were that stupid.

I get these kinds of stories a lot when I fill up my tank. Some kid in his daddy/mommy bought Camero or Mustang or even, in some occasions, truck...they will stare me down like I just threatened to kill them while I'm filling up. I'll get back in my car, I'll start to leave, pull out, and they will come up to my side and floor it, as if I was going to race them on Main Street, where cops hang out constantly....so really, I guess they think this is some drag machine...:dunno:

At the Burger King Drive Thru the cutie teenager asks if it's a Mazda, I said it is, she says that's the coolest Mazda I've ever seen, how much does something like that cost? I went, I got it for 15k on Ebay, she goes 15k that's it?!.
I gotta tell you these cars look like a million bucks, they are rare and exotic. Nobody knows they are kinda inexpensive.

Nobody seems to care about the RX-8 in California though...

yet another falls prey to the infection

OK, another one.

I pre-ordered my 8 sight unseen, and the day that I picked it up my wife and I just went driving. We ended up in a town about 80 miles away, which has a really nice restaurant so we had dinner. After dinner we come out to find a full dozen kids standing around the car discussing the design, specs, rotary roots, the whole thing. We just walked by and went to a bar until they were gone. I can't answer questions from twelve kids at once.

First day I took the car to work.. When I was about to leave, I see 9 or 10 co-workers of mine standing next to the 8 looking and talking saying, omg that's this guys car wtf man.. I open the 8 and I see maybe 5 heads next to mine like little rats looking at the interior, speedometer, my steering wheel, everything..

Then I hear someone behind the big crowd say, "Is it a V8?!"

Funny part was, my manager wanted to race me.. With his AMG. I declined of course.

haha love reading these stories keep it coming

At every gas station I hear, "Wow, that's a nice car!"

But then again, I buy a LOT of gas...

A crowd of guys, who ALL had cars in HIN-LA and were all tanking up at the same gas station afterwards at 1 AM all looked hard and said "Nice car, man!" The girl in the passenger's seat of the Honda across the pump from me was staring so hard that I almost asked her if she wanted a ride. Unfortunately, my apartment was on the next block, about 300 feet away. Bummer.

I started a new job last July, didn't drive the 8 to work for a few weeks (suspension was all apart). My other car is a rather aged 98 Outback and this new job is no big $$$. When I did drive the 8 all my new coworkers started acting weird. A few people said stuff like, "What the hell are they paying the new guy?" or "What's his job again?".

Douchebags.