So after many, many a night reading through these forums, drooling over everyone's rx8s and deliberating on purchasing one, I finally decided to get it! Loved rx8's since I first sat in one back during the first production year (my cousin's friend must have been rich to get one in high school). But yeah, got a red 2004 last week... and you can guess why it took me so long to post. Still suck at stick, but I'm getting there. And.. now for some proof pics:

 

Congradulations and welcome to the club!
I see you have all the goodies including the aero package and navigation plus two tone interior that even matches your exterior paint. Good for you hahaha you probably have a smile on your face most of the time these days eh?
Enjoy the lovely lookin car!

 

Congrats on the car and welcome to the club!
There's lots of information here to get you going as a new owner and a large community of fellow enthusiasts to meet.

 

Congrats, awesome choice. Even better being a Velocity Red

Welcome to the club and just a heads up, take nothing personal here as people are very up front on their opinions.

 

Congrats on the 8! Enjoy. We have a great community here. Way to post pics in the first post.

 

lol, knew you would be on the forums. Good luck learning stick and see you on HWY 17.

 

Welcome to the club! Enjoy the car!

 

Thanks everyone, hopefully I'll stop sucking at manual soon so i can fully fully enjoy the 8's abilities
(especially on HWY 17, buddy)

 

Welcome and car looks good. I like the 2-tone interior.

 

Lol, you have to go to track events to enjoy the car! What mods you plannin to get for the car?

 

since u are in san jose , come to the local meets every thursday ...we had it at santana row last week

here's the thread to follow :
https://www.rx8club.com/west-rx-8-forum-34/bay-area-norcal-local-meet-thread-174493/page15/

and here's some pics from previous meets:

 

awesome lookin 8 looks really clean ... got any plans as far as mods are concerned??

 

Nice!

 

Would love to hit up the tracks, or at least autocross, once I'm more experienced, of course), and as far as mods are concerned.... No clue . I'm sure a few for weeks of scouring the forums will give me some good ideas though (money permitting). Oh and I would like to go to one of your local meets, but it might be hard since my summer classes are on a night schedule, but I will still definitely try

 

welcome to the addiction

I'm in san jose as well, so if you ever need help with an install you have local guys who can help.


For the first install I would suggest the axial flow short shifter.

http://www.axialflow.com/products.htm
about half way down the page. search here and you'll see about 99.9 percent of the people who get it love it.

 

+1 for the short shifter. If you want to try it out, let me know.

 

love the velocity red!! outstanding color choice and the grand touring looks great with the red and black leather!

 

+1 for short shifter

 

A short shifter sounds like a good idea for my first mod, but I think I still shift too slowly for it to make a difference

 

welcome al club