I've been trolling the boards for a while now, looking around and getting everything in order to be able to make this purchase. I finally picked one up this weekend.

04 Black 6spd Sport with the appearance package and spoiler. Took delivery with 10,492 miles. As she sits in the parking lot this morning shes at 10,812. Paid 13,500 out the door (tax, title, doc, etc...) + my tiburon. Tossed some cash on top and I'm paying 225/month. Clean carfax and its got just over 2 years left on the warranty - was put in service summer of 05.

Its a hell of a car, I'm deff happy with it.

 

welcome aboard.

 

Nice find - I wish my payment was that low!

 

Congrats on the 8. Sounds like you got a good deal!

 

Congrats mac. Nice color choice.

 

it depends on how much the tiburon was worth. regardless, welcome aboard.

 

Welcome and thanks for the pics. Very low miles for an 04. Make sure all the recalls and TSBs done.

 

congrats!

 

it hasnt had the latest "emmisions" recall done yet. Drives and runs nicely so far. god ~19.8MPG on my first tank. Pretty happy with that.


I got 6,000 for the tiburon. it was an 03 4cyl 5spd manual with 88,000 miles in good but not great shape. Probably wasn't worth 6,000 especially from a dealer on trade. I don't think I stole the car but I don't think I overpayed by any means either. I am happy with what I got the car for.

Hopefully I'll get it out on the track in the next few weeks. I work about 90 minutes from Gingerman Raceway(www.gingermanraceway.com).

 

Congrats! Sure looks nice

 

Look like a ,,,look like a ,,,,, another satisfied RX-8 owner FTW. Congrat's.
As was mentioned before ,,"I wish my payment was that low."

 

gratz and welcome.

see ya at the track

 

 

Well Chicago doesn't get the searing heat and temperatures day in and day out that some parts of the country get so you're car is most likely fine. Your mileage may drop or may increase with the emission recall. I think most went down a bit.

What tires are on it? Watch the stock Bridgestone RE040's. They are sticky in the dry and slick in anything else.

 

I am in the same boat as you except with higher payments.

Just walked out of the dealership with an 06 RX-8 GT AT with under 10K miles on it.

We will see if the shine wears off in the next few months.

 

uh-oh.

 

Ignore my PM, I just found your post. Nice looking 8. May 27 Blackhawk Farms with midwest council

 

That May 5 date sounds familiar for some reason. Either way Im sure me and/or mike and/or kristen will be there so i'll make sure you get it then.

So i take it you liked Blackhawk? How were those new pads?

 

It was a nice track. Not as fast as RA, only one real straight and I could only get it to 102 before I had to brake, the other straight is much like he back straight at RA just much shorter. It had some nice corner though. The new pads were great but it took me a few laps to get use to the difference in brake pressure needed.

 

Yea that is pretty much what it looked like. More of a technical track like Gingerman that me and Mike do regularly. Its fun not having every ******* with 250whp blowing by you once you get to the straight just to park in front of you on the corners isn't it?

 

Welcome to the board and a great addiction

 

true that. esp when the get mad at you when they wave you by and it takes 10 seconds to pass them because they don't understand that your car is NOT fast in a straight line

 

I dont know what thats like yet...i only have 140bhp last time out.

 

A Delorean with a 13B, that would be pretty cool.

 

stainless steel DMC-12 FTW!