Definitely the worst for me. If I leave it in gear I still occasionally forget hence, I usually put it in neutral when parked.

Ouch

Got beaten by a minvan on a hot date... :uhh:

My most embarassing moment was when this GT mustang come up to me and was lunging like he was ready to go at it. I know street racing is illegal:nono: but I was ready. I know I could not win but i love the rush so I pouned it at the light and smoked his ass. We both stopped at the next gas station and it was a teen with his mom, he had his permit and was learning to drive a 5-speed!!. He was not lunging at me, he kept popping the clucth and killing the engine.:rollingla

I hope your joking lol..

Well I'm sure you were distracted....

I was just reminded of my most embarrassing moment with my 8...

it's the only one that i can actually recall....


when i first got my wheels put on and lowered i took my car out to the block (this local outdoor mall) I went in to do some shopping then came out - i started walking towards my car and noticed these 3 teenage douches standing by my car. I was still far off so i couldn't figure out what they were doing til i got closer....i finally figured out that they were posing in front of my car! It looked like the douches parked their late model 89' honda civic EF next to me and started posing with both cars...they turned and saw me walking towards them - they shuffled their feet and started walking away...i saw them and shook my head and said "freakin' ricers..."

at first i wasn't really bothered by it, and was kinda flattered at the time but then it hit me......some time...some where on myspace...there's this picture of these 3 tools posing in front of MY CAR like they own it.......to me, that's both embarrassing and frustrating :icon_no2:

I was behind a blue rx-8 just the other day, the rx-8 was bumping the subs obnoxiously loudly at the traffic lights next to an elderly couple, with its windows open, I can hear the obscenities of the lyrics, and the elderly couple rolled up their windows and shook their heads. The RX-8 took a right turn the next block, and I saw a high school kid with a hat on sideways, that's when I almost drove to the Nissan dealership and traded the 8 for a 370Z.


Side note - I listen to rap, so I'm not prejudice against the music. It's the fact that you're at a stop light, you have your windows down, next to you is a couple well into their 60s, also with windows up, and yet, you do nothing about the volume? Really? At least roll up the window and have some decency.

Love the car, not sure about the some of the 8 owners though...

was driving my friends Rx-8 one night, her and I were heading to the movies to go see the new transformers movie. Along the way there i noticed traffic was beginning to bunch and slow down well i get in the far left lane and start passing everyone while at the same time asking her "i wonder why everyone is slowed down to pratically a stop?" and the moment i finished that question i cleared everyone and noticed an ambulance was pulling onto the highway and i just go on by everyone. and said something like "well that answers my question i kinda feel like a dick now for passing everyone."
she laughed looked at me and mocked me saying "dick move."
i followed up by saying "well i guess now i got a most embarassing moment to add on rx8club"


I realise it is more of a dick moment, but from my pov its pretty embarassing.

I think "EPIC FAIL" was also said.

that too

^:pokeowned :evil_laug

had to towed my car to workshop because it can't start.. guess what.. the mechanic told me the battery terminal was loose :D:

I was the only person in an 8 to grind in reverse at SevenStock 9. Boy, was that embarrassing.

but now you drive an auto camry so life is great

i remember when i first got my 8, i got a 30 second lesson on how to drive stick at the dealership... man that was embarrassing, any-who, as soon as i got the jist of it (by that i mean burning the clutch) i was able to drive home (thank god for freeway)

but then my brother decides he wants to go to Mc Donalds and i say sure why not... so i did not want to go to the drive thru so i parked and after we got our food we went back into the car and i started to proceed out in reverse, needless to say i stalled about a total of 6 times in reverse, only to realize (after all the riced out automatics laughing at the drive thru) that the hand brake was up the whole time....

Yeah... even more embarrassing. I give 8 owners a thumbs up in my Camry, they're like WTF? Then I speed in front of them and they see my rotary sticker on my bumper. :)

:rofl: whattup my fellow insomniac

my most embarrassing moment would haft to be when i decied to do some drifting in a shipping yard, well lets just say that a storm drain cover got the best of my exhuast where the headers meet the cat back, so i had to run strait headders for about a week, the only plus side to this is that people would be thinking that some mussle car would be comming around the corner and it would be my 8, so i got alot of weird looks, lol

I've also done the "Shift into 2nd on the highway thing when you meant to go into 4th"...luckily my car was still in one piece after I did it...it about scared me shitless though. Mis shifting is always the most embarrassing thing I think...

my most embarassing in the 8 would be when i had JUST got it and wanted to show it to my buddies but i didnt know about the flooding issue and it wouldnt start but never had a probem since then.

I was coming home one day, and turned onto a straightaway. I went by a train station and there were a bunch of teens outside. I had just put my midpipe on, and I wanted to show off in front of them lol. So I'm going by kinda slow in 2nd, building up the revs till about 5000, then floor it. I come up to 9000, go to shift, then WHAAAAAA! I miss-shifted. Completely. It was horrible. The kids were probably thinking I was some punk loser trying to show off..... which I was I guess lol.

Yeah....missing shifts definitely isn't cool.

My worst was today. i met a buddy of mine at autozone so that he could give me my jacks back. i saw him, heard his car making this awful noise, and quickly got out of my car. Apparently something on the highway had pierced his header. i shook my head...looked back...and saw my 8 rolling backwards away from me....i had forgotten to put the e brake up..and i never leave it in gear since i have the remote start, i got in and hit the brake in time, but damn embarrassing.

just like Twiztog43 i drove my 8 up a driveway into the garage with the e-brake up wow was that a fun learning experience seeing as i hadnt a single clue on how to handle a manual

This thread has got some gold in it!