:p ... Are most of you guys planning on buying the 8 as soon as it comes out? or gonna wait sometime to see how things pan out? Just wondering, hell i'm bored. Oh and if anyone know this, will the production model be just like the pics of the yellow 8 with matching interior trim & seat with the exterior color? OK ... i'm done.

 

I would like to buy a RX-8 soon after it is released. I may wait a little while to see how demand is. If there is a lot of initial demand the dealers may not dicker much on the sticker price.

I liked the color cordinated interior. I hope that feature makes it into production.

 

If I fit in the car, I will be preordering one

 

They actually have a lot of leg room.

 

11 years 5 months.

Interestingly, one of those 3 guys was actually logged on this year (back in January). The OP was last active in September 2002, so I'm guessing he never got one. Veloce was last active in 2005.

 

Is this the record so far for reviving an old thread?

 

all this guy does is bump dead threads ... surprised he hasn't gotten a vacation for it yet.

 

I have reported it before, not sure if he has received a temporary ban before or not.

 

Bumping dead threads isn't strictly an offense. Many of the B@W guys have done it a time or two in the past.

I agree that only posting in threads from 2002 is somewhat unproductive for the community. I've spoken to him previously about it, and he stopped for a month, bumped an old one on May 22nd, then this one today.

 

Hi guys, I'm just wondering why reviving old threads is so bad. I don't understand the harm in it.
I don't really care that much, I'm just curious.

 

It's not inherently bad. For example an old thread that has a solution for someone that found it by searching is just fine to bump by posting a 'thank you!'. The problem clearly still exists and can still help people with that problem.

Bumping really old threads is even a point of humor for many people on the site, and there are periodic rashes of it for people looking for the oldest thread they can to bump.

There is only one way that bumping an old thread is an actual problem, and that is when the thread has been rendered obsolete with new information, and it is providing incorrect or damaging information, and other people don't recognize the date and take it for current fact.


The ones that are irritating are somewhere in between. Where threads are bumped to provide information to people that aren't even on the site any more, answering questions that made sense when the car had not yet been produced, but make no sense to ask now.

Another example was one bumped by this guy to provide a tire recommendation for someone that asked for recommendations back in 2002 for their Mazda Millenia and never came back to the site since. Pretty pointless. Also asked where they could get tires for that cheap, as 2002 tire prices were listed (which was before the oil price jumps in 2004, tires are mostly petroleum after all).

We wonder what was going through the replier's head... Not explicitly bad, but hardly something we see favorably.

 

Thanks for the response.
It's funny cause today I thought I had a thread idea for 8 haikus, but saw someone did it in 03, so I figured no one would be interested.

 

Reviving a thread almost 12 years and this is all your going to say?!

 

Thank you, sir.

 

i enjoyed reading the short but old thread.. trip down memory lane to before the Rx8 existed, i was never part of it an only could afford to jump on the bandwagon 9 years after release. i guess someone will start one for the new RX-? in another year or two.. until then i still love my rx8 & couldn't be happier!

 

Agreed. When these came out I was in teenager mode and buying people movers to cart them all around in. It is kind of interesting to look back although yes, a little pointless. I'm back off to 2013, cheers.

 

I tried really hard to coax my dad into buying one when they first came out. He loved the looks of the car. The layout, mainly the suicide doors. The interior package, VR with the black leather. But he was oh so scared of teh rotary and bought a Jaguar STR that year YAWN. I was only 13 at the time, lol.

 

I never pay much attention to the age of threads. But you are correct!

Usually if the subject intrigues me, I comment.

 

As one of the original posters to this thread it sure brings back memories. The interesting thing is I never was able to get a RX8. Family issues prevented it, but my son who was five years old at the time the thread was started is now sixteen and wants an RX8 as his first car. We are currently looking for a good used one for him. It appears he will get one before me.

 

awesome old thread revival -
I'm now finally looking at an R3 since prices have fallen so much
Been dreaming of them since 2002 or so when they were announced! It may finally be time to kiss the FC goodbye for the RX8

 

2002 was a very long time ago but I can clearly remember that year.

I didn't know RX-8 until 2004 and when I saw it in an advertisement, it looked just like any other car. And between 2005 and 2012 I never had any interest in any sports car (except Bugatti Veyron) and my interest grew only after I coincidentally bought RX-8.

It's really interesting not getting a RX-8 and following a site dedicated to it.

 

from beyond brand new to a $7k blue book price this thread covers quite a span.

 

12 year old thread... wow

 

whoa, i find it hard to believe i was 13 years old when this thread was made.

im 24 now...time is going by way too fast!

 

I can make you feel old...

I hadn't even hit double digits!