For the record, I've got nothing against old and even older women! We were ALL young at one time! Lol, I realized I never addressed that earlier in this thread...

my embrassing moment i stalled in a in n out drive thru.....

Krankor
i think what you don't get is that old woman wouldn't have understoond the brotherhood of owning rx8

well... something that hasn't been mentioned exactly the same:

When I'd take my car in for w/e before I would put it in gear for parking, I wouldn't check that it was in neutral when I'd get in. Of course whoever parked my car would leave it in gear, so I'd start the car and pull my foot off the clutch... obviously stalled.

A lot of these aren't too bad or are things that happen to the best of us. I know I've stalled on a hill and over revved after restarting the car... I've also had the wonderful grinding sound of barely not being in reverse.

I'm coming up to a light about to take a left at what might have been too high a speed. When I downshifted I dropped about one gear too low and the car seemed to slow itself with a break application. Hell, honestly I don't remember WTF happened. I tried to execute this insane turn and it seemed like the car just said "hell no fool". It rapidly lost speed and went side to side a bit. I remember shocked faces in that intersection. Like they all thought I was gunna wipe. I smile and wave to everyone as I make my slow left. Once through I punch it like I could outrun that embarrassment. Unfortunately it was a mile from work at my normal commute hour. Well at least I no longer work there.

Aye, I love that one.

That reverse grinding thing pisses me off so much!!!!!

LOL@Hell, honestly I don't remember WTF happened. I tried to execute this insane turn and it seemed like the car just said "hell no fool".

Hahahaha, made me laugh pretty good :)

today, when racing against my buddy's cadi sls, missed 3rd gear. was very close tho

Jerked and stalled the RX8 on a first date once. Massive fail.

pays to get that out of the way before the date !

Most embarrassing? I'd say having to explain why my front bumper was cracked, due to this girl I was having relations with plowing it into a curb after several days of constant begging to drive it. Will never make that mistake again however.

My worst was pretty bad. I drive 3 different vehicles, so I never remember which side the pump goes to. I drive up to the pump one night, the place was deserted.
I get out "F%ck!" Wrong side. So trying to show off to the girl I was dating at the time, I drive forward to the back of the station which is the size of a small parking lot. Put it in 1st. Rev it to 4 grand. Cock the wheel and drop the clutch. The whole move was gorgeous. I drifted to the pump perfectly. I begin to fill up, I notice the attendant come out. Turns out he was the owner of the place and had called the police on me. I had to wait there to be ticketed. She asked to be taken home after.

^ouch! Safe to assume she didn't go for a second date?

i was in highway cruising then decided to do a lil boost and one of my intercooler couplers came off and my car died. lol

You need some T-bolt clamps haha


I think my most embaressing moment was driving my car home for the first time. I never drove stick before and had a 2 and a half hour drive ahead of me. Of course there was traffic down the highway and I looked like a total tool.

:rofl: Touche.

My most embarrassing moment on the 8 is.. I park the car and went to Five guys and ate with my buddy. We we leave and I somehow proceed to drive forward thinking there isn't a damn parking curb in front. My friend keeps saying, I know your not going forward. I'm like yea, why not?! So I step on the gas and ahhh crap. The 8 gets stuck on the curb. OMG, all the people passing by.. And some construction workers were in front of me laughing.. I had to turn the wheel left and right with my friend pushing the car backwards. Oh god, I was ready to die. I should of taken a picture with the words. "FAIL" .. Good thing we got the car out, I wouldn't be able to handle a damn tow because of this.

Forgot to mention some guy was screaming "nice car!" .. :(

^-- the curb thing happened to me once, i just kept going forward and over it.

lol.. Good.. I'm not the only one then. I tried going over it but couldn't. So I had to reverse. :lol:

not mine, but I finally got my wife to drive the car.

She turns the car on.....and promptly mashes the gas to floor instead of the brakes.....

Lucky... she didn't put it in reverse yet. though a cold engine got a nice uber high rev

that's my gradma !!!! quit mocking her lmao jejee

You know that on every car where the gas gauge is right next to the little gas symbol theres an arrow, pointing to the side you fill up on. ;)

I never knew this until a few years ago when my buddy who doesnt know anything about cars told me, no idea how he knew that.



Not to embarrassing more funny I guess but the first time I went to test drive an rx8 I was really nervous because I didnt wanna break it in a test drive and as I go to drive away I forget about the e-brake and cant figure out why I'm not moving, then it dawned on me. In that same test drive I get to the turn out from the dealership and this was the first time I had ever drove a RWD car and it was a sport model so no dsc or any of that. I end up fish tailing out of the dealership with the sales guy watching because I gave it to much gas. I thought he was gonna flip out when I got back but he didnt say a word. All that before I even owned an 8. :eyetwitch

My 8 and Avalon do. But not my pickup.

You learn something new everyday. Thanks :)

:uh:really cute girl in a evo x showed me up she pulls up on the side of me smiles revs and takes off

Yea I noticed when I was watching some youtube video the other day that a car in it didnt have the little arrow. I think most do, but the odd one might not. Even tho I usually know what side to fill up the rx8 it still helps me, I drove around another car for 7 years that had the tank on the right side so its been tough lol.

One time recently I was wicked low on gas, and the station I normally go to was closed (I think from all the rain and flooding) anyway I chose to just hit up the Stop and Shop gas station and fill the tank with 93. Here comes the embarrassing part, seems they had some water in there tanks as well. I got to take the car out at lunch like I normally do (nice to get out of the office for an hour) and soon as I go to start her I knew something was up. It caught right away but was sputtering a bit, then the cloud of white smoke started pouring out the back of the car. Oh man, it was horrible. But some dry gas in the tank and a nice long drive so I could put some fresh gas in and it cleared up. But wow was that kinda freaky.

Here's the worse, a year ago me and 3 friends, 2 girls 2 guys, was about to go to the club. Go in the car i was like, this is why rx8 is amazing, i can fit 4 comfortably and have 2 (sometimes 3 chicks) cranks and no go. (battery for some reason died) the starting was getting weak for that week and i thought something was wrong, and it chose that night to give out. it was so embarrassing.

I got you beat sniper. So last year right after Fat Tuesday coming from the local Dukes every one was crossing the street after the party had ended to get to the parking lot. Keep in mind this place was packed with girls. we are all crossing the street and about midway I decided to hit the auto start button. Now my friend drove my car up to the spot cause he just insisted on driving his first RX8 so I let him. Big mistake cause he left it in gear so everyone watched as the car was starting up and running into the curb trying to push over it and finally got stuck ,cracked the front lip off and stalled out. While some chick screams out saying OMG who's car is that. As all 30 girls looked over. I just stopped in my tracks and my face turned red.

lawl

LOL! hey man, you were trying to look cool in front of the Bettys with the remote start thing... weren't you. You know you were.

There's not much difference between grand champion cliff diver and stuff on a rock.

Rear ending an accord at 20mph in stop and go traffic was pretty embarrassing.

had just put on my new 5zigens to join a meet and run up in the mountains. we had quite the turnout and of course we went into an autozone and when we were leaving everyone was cruising out pretty quickly. i looked left and had a clean shot to get into traffic if i went quickly but didn't realize there was a divider and went right over it. had to pull over as a bunch of 8s with people i just met were driving by so i could see if i did any damage. thankfully none except to my ego.