Adamrotor

I love my blue in the window reflection it looks like a ferrari sometimes same goise for yellow.

Rob Tomlin

I have a Yellow Protege5 and there is definitely truth to the bug thing. Weird, but it can be difficult to wash the car sometimes with the way it attracts bugs.

Nubo

You can give a thumbs-up to a cabbie and make them laugh

Speed-ER doc

I had a yellow demo while waiting for mine, and I loved it. It did seem like a cop magnet tho. The cabbie thumbs up story above was funny Nubo.

I think the bug problem is just that they show up more. I get a bunch on my black too, but they aren't as noticeable.

Pete

I love the yellow.

The car looks best when the sun starts to set. I the shine is incredible.

Apaul. The other yellow is one of my friends

apaul

Oh, so true. Last Sunday, a Crapalier on 401 eastbound at Meadowvale blew a rear tire sending a chunk of debris straight for my left headlight. I saw it coming..no time or room to switch lanes.. braked but.. It missed thankfully, instead gouging the paint just below the hood 'line', [of course on the lower front section where I haven't yet had the 3M guard installed]. Curses!

Pete: thanks for the info.Is she cute?

StewC625

My favorite moment: Freshly washed and detailed on a cool, sunny afternoon for a drive with the windows down and the roof open.

There isn't a day that goes by when people don't stop and stare. It looks like something from another planet.

Or a study hall book ...

but that's another thread.

And only in LY does it look like this.

RX-Hachi

I had a special "yellow" moment this past weekend. Driving down one of my favorite roads, I spied a bright saffron yellow Lotus Elise coming my way. This being the first Elise that I've seen on the road, I couldn't help but stare as we passed. Funny thing was the Elise's driver was staring back at my LY RX-8 just as intensely, and then he gave me the "shaka" sign. (That's sort of like Hawaii's version of a thumbs up greeting.)

apaul

That is too cool! { if I were <60, I'd have said..'way cool' of course}. Nice!

StewC625

zoom zoom! Nice!

SpinninAgain!

Is it just me noticing because I own one, or are there more yellow cars around these days? In my parking garage for work there's a yellow Mustang, a Saturn, a VW beetle and a Ford pickup with a stupid looking wing spoiler (on a pickup?!)

On the good news front, Lighning Yellow is the nicest yellow I've seen. Very clear, not tinged with green (VW), orange (Mustang) or general garishness (Saturn).

StewC625

Well, as much as I LOVE my LY RX-8, the best yellow is the yellow on a Lamborghini or a Ferrari, and Porsche's yellow is pretty sweet as well.

But, for the price of those, I could have at least one RX-8 for every day of the week and two each for Saturday and Sunday.

RX-Hachi

Ummm, perhaps it's not that these yellows are really better than LY, but it's the cars themselves that make their yellows look so good to you.

StewC625

Interestng persective there Hachi ... must ponder for awhile. Perhaps blowing off work and visiting the Lambo dealer will do the trick ... hmmm ...

Jaguar_MBA

I told the dealer that I wanted a Yellow car, and he advises me that we do not want a "yellow car" because it does not look very good in person...he called it a mustard yellow. ???? Of course they did not have one on the lot so I made them get one from another dealer.

People love the color, strangers, neighbors will come up to me and compliment the yellow all day long.

In regards to:
1) Shocked reaction of conservative neighbor types. Need I say more?
Just slap a George W sticker on the window for them.

2) Bugs, Bugs, Bugs:
Yup bugs on the car, it must look like a giant flower to them.....The bugs are thinking they hit the vegas jack pot....what a cruel joke.

3) I had a cop friend tell me the other day "Dude, I should give you a ticket just on general principles!" :0

I had an officer tell me it was "hard to miss that car"

The yellow is perfect.

StewC625

The yellow is perfect.

That's the phrase that pays!

chinx

i have a yellow FD. can i join?

i haven't had any deals w/ the bugs, but i'm in LA and there're hardly any bugs here. and the washing, yeah i can not wash it in a week or two and it still looks real clean, save for some dust! yellow is my FAVORITE color, i love it! and i love those people who think yellow is ridiculous, i just laugh at them on the inside as they sit in their gray auto appliances eating my dust. i've had people complementing my car while driving. my house is yellow, too

rotten42

a yellow Ferrari is criminal!

phee

Okay, which one of you yellow RX-8 owners was cruising thru Mission Valley in San Diego yesterday? You almost blinded me! Nice wax job

rx8pilot

well here's another chime in for ya then.. i own black..wouldn't want it any other way.. i take care of my car so it looks good all the time.. it's understated, sinister looking......so bad a$$... if i wanted a car that screamed "look at me" i'd go to the paint shop and turn it nuclear pink. it all just boils down to preference...not "cojones" as you put it. simple..you like ur color..we like ours..and we all like our RX-8's.. so stop with the color war. it's no more attention getting than any of our other colors of RX-8's...and that's the truth.

StewC625

You apparently missed the humor in my post. It truly does take a certain kind of crazy to drive a bright yellow car, and we yellow owners all openly admit our psychotic side.

Whereas having had three black cars in my life, the only personal requirement I've found for driving one of those is either a sincere love of washing the car, or a sincere tolerance for always looking dirty.

Half the fun in the yellow car is the people that say to you "Wow, cool car! I sure wouldn't have picked that color though!" I would guess no one has said that to you.

rx8pilot

actually i have had plenty of people say that to me.. people to lazy to wash their cars to buy a black one. the yellow...your right..is a very different color.. but at least no one i know of has said my car looks like a rolling banana...as my friend did when a yellow rx-8 went by. cheers.

irish8

Bug's dig yellow!! Chick's dig Black!!!

In all fairness.... the yellow is awesome. If I had the ball's, I would have bought yellow.

- Irish

Lock & Load

Yellow rocks , I love growing old disgracefully .

cheers
michael

shelleys_man_06

Well, they didn't have royal purple, so I stuck with Titanium Grey. Bright colors are really not my style, except for pink. Not many people have pink cars, except for Elvis.

I like the yellow RX-8's. I see some every now and then in my area. Could it possibly be tpryor?