How could any car that runs 0-60 in 6 and quarters in mid 14s be considered slow? Blindingly fast? No. Quick? Maybe. Slow? No.

I love the use of missing comparisons. "Your 8 is slow". Slow compared to what? A 350Z is slow compared to a Viper. Define slow.

 

I like how he says there was no win/kill. Um, he lost. He said it himself that the 8 was leaving him on/around the on ramp. He had the ***** to admit that he couldn't beat the 8, but he didn't have the ***** to actually say he lost.

 

What with all the bad press in the other car forums, I rather like having a sleeper 8 now. :D

 

Kill threads on every other forum. Growup already or die young, their chioce. Anybody here when buying the 8 thought man imagine the races I can get into on the street with this thing? I hope not. Take it to the track. Leave my innocent family out of your death wish.

 

I like how people here think this is surprising. Any time any other car is mentioned (SRT-4, 350Z, Mustang, etc etc etc) on rx8club.com dozens of people here bash them and sound pretty ignorant doing so.

 

i like my slow 8, don't you? haha. god damn kids harass me everyday at work b/c i won't race them in their S2000s, Type-Rs, 1.8Ts, 330Cis. i bought my RX8 b/c of the practicality...not b/c i want to chase little boys in their little race cars. i'll race any 350z in a controlled environment...but i get to choose the flagger. muahahahahaha!! :D

 

that's one of the things i've noticed in my recent time here. many people here are just as ignorant and immature as the people they're chastising

 

I am sure thats why kill threads were started on other forums. Because on this forum SOME people bash other cars.

 

On every other forum it is only SOME people that are bashing other cars too Unless there is a car bashing forum, which sadly enough, there probably is.

I don't mind the idea of a kill section, that is: comparison of the performance of these cars in the hands or the average driver and situation, but I do no condone street racing. The problem is that there are always SOME people who say stupid **** in them, it would be the very same here if we had one.

 

I'm against a kill forum actually since it's not "SOME" people who say stupid **** in them, it's MOST people that say stupid **** in them. I've only seen a couple kill sections and it was plenty. Maybe I was just lucky but the ones I have seen are absurdly dumb. And then the kill stories posted here (before they get deleted or whatnot) are pretty much at the same level.

I mean it's great to have stories about how the car performs against other cars; but a kills section is going to be 90% street racing where 99% of the posts will only be "I JUST KILLED CAR X, CAR X SUCKS!" and where 25% of them are likely to be because the other guy wasn't really trying.

On the other hand if the "kill" section was more "performance at the track" section, that would be interesting. It'd be nice to know how various cars fare with hopefully less biased discussion.

 

And there's a 95% chance that the stories in those kill threads are either entirely made up, or embellished to the point that the real truth is lost somewhere in the translation. How many 18/19 year olds are accomplished drivers? I sure wasn't, although I sure believed (at the time) that I was. Nothing replaces experience.

Bill

 

The Z owner's story reminds me of something that happened to me. A car was following me a bit closely on one of my favorite back roads. It has a stiff, uphill S curve with limited visiblity heading in. Approaching it, I accelerated very gradually, then whipped into the curve. Past the curves, I watched for the headlights behind me. They took an awful long time to appear. I think the tailgater -- whatever it was -- followed me at that speed into the curve and got a bit of a surprise.

 

Actually ... Compared to a lot of other sites..... Most of us give respect were it's due.

350Z is a great car , and so is the 8

 

I think it appears that way because we don't have a kill section. Don't worry though, even the boys and girls on Fchat, rennlist and other high end cars sites talk the same trash.

 

Noted.

I never said it still doesn't happen here. Just from what I see. Not as much