What's all this then?

New trans changes? What trans changes?

And if changed...would it make sense to wait to take yours into the dealer for an in warranty trans replacement which would then get the new trans changes with the replacement?

Huuuuummmmmm???

 

Dang, and I was really hoping for a display that didn't look like an early 70s clock radio!

 

You know...if I ever build a louder redline buzzer replacement...I will HAVE to make one that sounds exactly like the alarm going off on one of those aforementioned 70s clock radios...

That would rule...heh

 

I want the Samuel Jackson redline beep... "SLOW DOWN.... Dirty M*therf*cker"

 

....

 

It does help--what the heck were they thinking with the big hunk of black plastic???

 

I get to eat crow on the Recaro seats not having airbags. I guess they're in part of the rear shell.

Clear corners are going to be a darned expensive proposition with those headlights. I was hoping they'd put the orange reflectors in the side markers.

 

ack! 4.777 gears? talk about going the wrong way.. small turbo and 3.90 would've been a better choice.

 

I enhanced the photo and I was able to pull this from the LCD.

Hmmm.



This may have to do with the lack of performance updates.

 

^I love it "lol"

 

hard to believe they could not tweak the renessis for a few more ponies . They must have tried and failed and decided not to compete with the oposition on performance .
Like the new look though

 

so, the rs seats (recaro) DO have airbags, but the ms version seats do not??

yes - can anyone that has made the switch to 4.77 talk about fuel economy? i'm surprised they didn't talk about it at naias...

 

Shorter gears = worse fuel economy...unless if somehow the engine it self is much more efficient.

 

+1,000,000

 

we know the gearing is shorter on the diff, but we don't know what the gears are in the transmission. They might have offset it with a longer 6th

 

best looking chop yet. that looks really nice.

interior of course looks nice. but im not so sure about the rest.

unless this comes with the new 16x im not jealous at all. if it does.. well i guess i have to go to the dealership and see how much my car is worth as a trade in. and maybe go for a base model.

 

It's definitely NOT coming with the 16X--that's still a couple years out. Nice chop BTW.

 

Looks like an indicater light for the passenger side airbag to me.

 

i don't know anything about gearing, and what 4.77 means ... but according to what you're saying, they could put a 4.77 or whatever in, giving better acceleration, but they could STILL put in a "longer" 6th gear? best of both worlds, better acc in 1-5, but still have 6th for pure highway/fuel economy?

 

I hope so for future buyers and at the same case I hope not because that means I will need to buy a FEED to keep up! $$$$$$$$

 

Still waiting to see what the none RS version looks like.

 

the new rx8 has 4.77????

 

P.S. - going from stock 4.44 to 4.77 = -2mpg , yes 2

 

With those wheels/tires and the 4.44 gearing:
Speed at 3500 RPM 15.7 26.0 35.9 49.7 59.0 70.0

With those wheels/tires and the 4.777 gearing:
Speed at 3500 RPM 14.6 24.2 33.4 46.2 54.9 65.1

Gear ratio required for 6th gear to have the same speed at 3500 RPM: .784 (vs .843 in the current tranny)
So, to be taller with that final drive, you'd have to be lower than .784.

 

Yikes.......I could handle that since after I've gotten a Scangauge II I have been able to increase my MPG by at least twice that.