Snapped a couple of pictures of the new Shinka and the Mazdaspeed 6 at the DC autoshow, thought I'd share.













Also saw this monstrocity:







Finally...the only other engine I'd consider putting into my 7:

 

I thought the Shinka was supposed to be Copper, that almost looks VR.

 

Damn when were you there? I have some pics in the RX8 Gallery Section of when I went yesterday. I wish I would have went when you did. I hardly see any people there. Look at my pics, there are thousands of people in there. It sucked because of all the people.

 

yeah, we went on Thursday, took a long lunch from work. It was Gov't day so we got in for half price with our IDs :D

Rest of the pics are here if anyone is interested:

http://imageevent.com/section8/dccarshow

 

Cool. What part of the government do you work for? My wife works for DOJ.

 

Whos front is this?

 

LSx>*
I'd say do it, but you gotta find a way to fit it then balance the car and also keep it bolted on cuz IIRC its got somewhere around 500+tq

 

I work for the Senate Sergeant at Arms doing IT stuff

 

Not sure, the car was just sitting out unattended with a bunch of other misc. modified cars.

 

The LS7 is just an amazing engine. If i won the lottery today, I'd buy a new Z06. Course, the engine and tranny go for something like $15K which is more than I paid for my FD. LOL.

 

I was there on Saturday. Earlier in the day, things weren't too bad, but when we managed to squeeze out the exit around 2:00 pm or so, it was packed and the line to get in was crazy.

The Mazda/Ford was the last place we visited and it was just too crowded to get a good look at anything. Just one thought, I liked the black cherry shinka better than this color. The black cherry seemed a little more expensive and exclusive. This color kinda looked "common." They had it tagged as a 2007. Is there no 2006 Shinka? (sorry, i know the answer is posted in a thousand different places here). The 8 was a hot display at the show when I was there. the 3 and the mx 5 were not even being looked at, but the 8 was covered up!!

 

Aside from the color, I like the overall shape & look and dig the squarish ram air duct...

anyone else got any ides about who makes this?

 

Corvettes are awesome in power, but im not a huge fan of the looks, what i would be nice is a mix of a WS6 exterior with corvette interior and that LS9 they are talking about with possible corvette SS/blue devil....now we just need a tranny cuz i doubt the TH450 would do the trick here

 

The Mazda section of the Houston Auto Show sucked, no CX-7 or Shinka models, I really wanted to see the copper color in person.

 

I wish we had government day. I work for the branch that people are "outed" from.

 

Same with Portland. Only a dirty, well-used 05 RX-8 and no CX-7.

 

what is the big deal about the CX-7?
im serious when i ask...i heard tons of radio commercials before and during the L.A. auto show and they always mentioned it as some sort of show highlight.
it just looks like a minivan/SUV to me.

 

Hey! That's me in pic #2! I'm the good looking guy seated on the left side looking at his laptop.

I got pretty boring looking at the ***-end of that Shinka all day.

 

Pic #3? Yeah, and the guy on your left is my nephew, Paul.

 

haha, small world.

 

That is Dave Nugent, the VP of the MSCW.

Oops. Sorry MY left. Never mind...

 

I found out from my dealer that unlike the '05 Shinka.....The new one will be a package deal...not just limited to one color...4 Colors if I recall correctly....White, Copper Red, Black....and I think Titanium (not sure on the last one). The Black Cherry will be out of production for now.....but I guess Mazda loves to produced special editions...so I'll bet it'll be back before there's a new body on the 8.

It's still in the top 5 cars you can buy in the US.

518!

 

Galaxy Grey- titanium is history.

it is available in 4 colors however the Copper Red is ONLY on the Shinka.

 

hehe i was there yestarday, I saw the shinka. wasnt anything special, I also saw some pretty sweet tuned RX8s that were much more impressive looking. I didnt get a good look at the rx8s cause i was too busy drooling over the ferraris

 

Sounds like me!!! They had one at the Portland show that I would kill to have (just change the color on that one)!!! My boyfriend had to drag me away from it at least twice!!! LOL