I will be driving in from Seattle, WA around the 10th of July until the 19th. 05 TI Gray with 60k.

 

Silver is the fastest color rx8 - but that TiGray would do well...

 

we need someone with some stealth mods, like coil upgrade catless and AP tuned

 

guys....you know the outcome of the review.

"RX-8 is long in the tooth. Great handling car. Bad on gas. Quirky suicide doors. Needs another 100hp to be perfect."

There, I just helped save C&D a bunch of $$$. I give you permission to use the above rehash conclusions.

 

Alright fine.... I'll do it.

 

I have all of the above, plus full suspension, sways, ect.

 

Your car would be perfect for this

 

too bad I'm not stock....

 

Dude - that would be the hands down funniest C&D article ever...provided they had no idea what was under the hood.

 

Hey guys,
It looks as though I have a car lined up from the forum. Thanks for your involvement.

 

Please mention the forum in the copy, okay?

:D

Extra points for mentioning 'dmp', too!

:D

 

That makes no sense to exclude the '08 except for '08 sport trim since '08 is just carry over of '07 except for 40th Anniv. edition.

 

I believe it will make sense AFTER you read the piece

 

Okay so who is the lucky 8 owner?

 

Well, I hadn't spoken up till now, just in case it didn't work out. But I had the opportunity to be a part of this, this last weekend (I actually just got home). It was an awesome time. I worked hard to try and represent the RX-8 community well - tried to get my car in tip top shape (which was actually just doing all my 30,000 mile maintenance so I had new plugs, fresh oil, new brake pads and rotors, coils, plug wires, fresh tranny fluid dif fluid, and a coolant flush all within the last 5k miles or so) and they seemed to like my car so we'll all just have to wait and see how things stack up when the article comes out.

C&D was awesome - I'd recommend anyone who ever has an opportunity like this, take it - it was way cool.

 

thats totally cool id do it if it wasnt too far!

 

Man, if I was going to lake house this year I would be soooo close.....

 

Congrats Thawk! I can't wait to see the article. Let us know when its supposed to be out!

 

Damn i have a stock 06 shinka I'm about to take a trip to Michigan lol

 

That sounds pretty friggin' awesome. I hope they represent us well in the article. So, ummm, I thought they were looking for an '06-'08. Oh well, yours in a prime example of an 8 no matter what the year.

 

Thanks for taking the time to get your car in top top shape to put our car in the best light. Guess they were okay with an 05, but yours has less miles than a lot of newer ones. My 05 has about 33K miles.

Look forward to seeing the article and glad to hear it was a great time. I'm envious!

 

Yeah I believe the article will show up sometime this fall (usually takes that much time to pull it all together I guess). I think that since the cars are pretty much the same from 04-08 they were ok with an 05 despite it not being perfectly ideal. Also, it seemed I was among the few really stock cars available that was able to make it out and since I had such low miles they felt it would be a fair example despite the different model year.

Anyway, I am really excited to see the article.

 

05/06 - I think it's just semantics when you have as low miles as you do. Didn't think it would be that hard to find a stock one, but then a lot of people have modded cars on here.

Who did you meet and C&D?

 

thawk97, that is awesome! What type of testing did they put your car through? How long were you there?

 

i have an '05 with 36k miles. performance wise its all stock. all i have r painted engine covers and tinted tail lights with an after market radio.