Saint_Spinner

Good god...what's with the e-thug language? Sure your not from club si? Regarding retractable hard top...I don't really like the idea for the Rx-8. For the next gen Rx-7 maybe...in general any 2+2 convertible (ala sebring, Mustang etc..) just look weird. If its going to be a convertible rx-8, it better only have 2 seats and have better porportions...then it would be an Rx-7 though...

truemagellen

calm down every, stop fighting! :D

DreRX8

Newport Conversions did a sweet burgundy custom FD convertible.

BEYOTCH (a homage to e-thugdom)

soblazin

now I dunno if Thats a Hard-top Convertible like the kind I would want But That **** is hotttttt Thanx Glyphon! But guyz Alot of you weren't listening to my point It wouldn't be any different than the 8 now except the weight (which honestly I think is an exaggeration) It wouldn't be any different because i said HARD-TOP convertible and I'm sorry but the 8 looks tight top down and top up y not have the option???

DreRX8

I'm almost positive that that is a standard cloth top. Newport Conversions is advertising a conversion for the RX8.

soblazin

Yea see I'd like the hardtop to where it could still look like it does now but with the option of feeling the wind hit you ahaaaa lol

carcajou

I, too think that it would be a structural infeasability. The way that the vehicle is designed, it does not lend itself into becoming a convertible. They' probably have to redesign the whole thing...in which case, it would not even be an RX-8 afterward. Thye are resleasing the newly designed convertible MX-5 this year anyway.

soblazin

yea but MIATA's ARE WHACK!!!!

DreRX8

I'd have to disagree with that one--they are one of the best autocross cars out there--and they are easily modified and boosted.

124Spider

Miatas are excellent cars, and an excellent value. It's fine if you don't like the Miata, but you lose any shred of credibility you might not already have lost with a statement like that one....

Saint_Spinner

But I shift mad quick yo!

DreRX8

LOL---yo son you got crazy skillz yo. Or if I talk in my native Houston e-thug language. Hol Up mayne--yall boyz trippin on this computer--fo real mayne it go dahn; nowem tawlkin bouwt.

but seriously--my first car was a Miata--I love em. They are like a blank canvas; you just need to add the extra power if you want it because the handling is built in there already.

8is>enuff

I would like it very much if this thread died.

Cattywampus

Bang bang bang bang. Consider it done.

Saint_Spinner

wait....

soblazin

I dont Think the Car is whack I meant the entire body style and look ... point blank period it ugly performance is great but so what if the car is straight ugly befor yall bash you should ask my meaning

124Spider

Make up your mind....

Perhaps you can see why we thought you said that Miatas are "whack?"

Now "ugly," of course, is in the opinion of the beholder. "point blank period it ugly," sounds (stated in highly original syntax) like an absolute assertion that the Miata is ugly, which, of course, puts you in the very small minority of folks considering that. I happen not to like the looks of the Elise, but I would never say it's "whack."

PoorCollegeKid

Look at it this way: A 350Z convertible is around 200lbs heavier than a 350Z coupe. The FM platform (the one the Z uses) is already stiff enough that Nissan puts it in a couple of their 4000+ pound SUVs, and it still needs an extar 200lbs of stiffening when the top is chopped off. The RX8's platform, on the other hand, is made to underpin a 3000lb vehicle. Chop off its top, and you'll have to add at least 200lbs to get it close to its previous stiffness, and you'll have to add even more to get it all the way back.

At that point, you'll have a car costing low to mid $30,000s that has straightline performance comparable to a Miata, with handling ability and gas mileage far below that much cheaper car. I just don't see how a convertible RX8 will sell well sitting next to RX8 coupes and Miata roadsters.

soblazin

So you guyz don't think the option of buying a plain rx-8 or a convertible rx-8....having the option of riding just like in a normal 8 and being able to feel the wind on your face would be cool? If you honestly think its not tight...then fine.... but you know having the option of buying both would be cool but if you just wanna shoot me down because u feel like you have to or you wanna fit-in instead of just admitting the truth.... then whatever its people that arent punks that LEAD THE WORLLDDDD TO A BETTER PLACE!!!!! HAHAA don't get me wrong I love my 8 the way it is just having the option would be kool

DreRX8

Hardtop convertibles are cool yes--my mom has an SLK and I enjoy driving that for the wind in the face or whatever--but honestly I would not want a hardtop convertible RX8 unless it had at least 300RWHP. I'd rather my 8 the way it is. Oh btw the 350Z COnvertible is horrendous looking with the top up--and rather ungainly with it down.

soblazin

Well Thanx for your honest opinion and not just shooting me down just cuz everyone else did

124Spider

Sure, it would be very cool to be able to wave a magic wand and lose the top, while keeping everything else the same. But that's not how the real world works. Converting a coupe to a rag-top always involves compromises, typically adding a few hundred pounds of weight and losing stiffness. The RX-8 would not interest me if it weighed more and handled less well, as would be the case with a rag-top conversion of this car.

soblazin

Wow shut up.... U didnt even read anything before making your comment including the subject title...... HARD-TOP convertible.. we're not talk
ing about a rag-top

RXMAN16

I don't think that 124Spider was saying anything bad about you, he was just stating a few of the problems associated with making it a convertible. You sir are an idiot and I believe that you owe him an apology.

soblazin

I believe you can shut up just like I told him ... that's all I said insulting and that only insulting if your still in gradeschool... I was simply stating that he didnt read I believe you owe me an apology