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Originally posted by zoom44
well i saw it but it was really short @1 min maybe1min 30secs. they really liked it talked about how great it was lots of room in the back great price. showed some footage from laguna. nice review just way too short :D
well i saw it but it was really short @1 min maybe1min 30secs. they really liked it talked about how great it was lots of room in the back great price. showed some footage from laguna. nice review just way too short :D
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first part of show
I taped it on VHS; as I recall, the first test was of a Chevy Silverado CK; they had comparisons of the 250/350 HD trucks offered by Chevy;Dodge;Ford(unless I'm thinking of the later C&D TV show) highlighting the 520ft/lb torque 6.6L t.diesel of the Chevy. The RX-8 spot was short; almost the only footage they showed of it moving was the same thing shown several times. Nowhere near as good as last week's C&D piece.
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Re: first part of show
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Nowhere near as good as last week's C&D piece.
Nowhere near as good as last week's C&D piece.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by tribal azn
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Dude can you either shrink the Bimmer pic or delete it. It makes the threads extra long when you reply to 3,4,5 times or morre. Gets a little annoying. Yeah it's a great car and you're lucky to have it. But this is an RX8 forum.
PS: when you get yours post all the pics you want :D
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Dude can you either shrink the Bimmer pic or delete it. It makes the threads extra long when you reply to 3,4,5 times or morre. Gets a little annoying. Yeah it's a great car and you're lucky to have it. But this is an RX8 forum.
PS: when you get yours post all the pics you want :D
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Can somebody host a good copy of the motorweek review. My cable was out when it was on the air (some cable laying company cut the cable line to my neighborhood). I would greatly appricate the help. I am trying to make a DVD of all the videos I can find.
Thanks
Thanks
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I just saw the motorweek review on Speed Channel about 30 mins ago. It looked as though their test driver was having the best time of his life pushing the RX-8 through the turns.
Woo-hoo!!!!
Woo-hoo!!!!
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Re: Missed Broadcast
Originally posted by jtdwab
Can somebody host a good copy of the motorweek review. My cable was out when it was on the air (some cable laying company cut the cable line to my neighborhood). I would greatly appricate the help. I am trying to make a DVD of all the videos I can find.
Thanks
Can somebody host a good copy of the motorweek review. My cable was out when it was on the air (some cable laying company cut the cable line to my neighborhood). I would greatly appricate the help. I am trying to make a DVD of all the videos I can find.
Thanks
Ditto
Ditto
My careless a** recorded over the Motorweek video this weekend. Please help
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wow ya! that video was awesome! oh wait, i didnt see it. but from the rest of the posts it sounds like i should have. id like to echo POOMan who echoed TJRX8 who echoed jtdwab who echoed Magnus Berglund who echoed Titanium Grey who echoed Magnus Berglund (again) and humbly request that the lip be posted somewhere. id even be glad to host it if someone could get it to me.
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I've put a copy on my site:
MotorWeek_CarKeys_RX-8.mpg.zip
01:52 min, 12.3 MB
video: 320x240 MPEG-1 1-pass VBR 800 kBit/s, 1000 max
audio: 44.1KHz stereo, 128 kBit/s
Short and nothing really new here, but the shots of it power-sliding through the autocross circuit at Laguna-Seca are always cool.
FYI, SoCal connections that need to hop through ATTBI routers are going to be very slow until they get their act together. I'm getting 25KB/s download speeds off my own server.
Okay everyone, grab a copy (mirror it if you like), so we can un-sticky this one.
MotorWeek_CarKeys_RX-8.mpg.zip
01:52 min, 12.3 MB
video: 320x240 MPEG-1 1-pass VBR 800 kBit/s, 1000 max
audio: 44.1KHz stereo, 128 kBit/s
Short and nothing really new here, but the shots of it power-sliding through the autocross circuit at Laguna-Seca are always cool.
FYI, SoCal connections that need to hop through ATTBI routers are going to be very slow until they get their act together. I'm getting 25KB/s download speeds off my own server.
Okay everyone, grab a copy (mirror it if you like), so we can un-sticky this one.
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I don't know is this has been posted yet, but here is a link to the text version of the story on Motorweek: http://www.mpt.org/motorweek/reviews/rt2232.shtml
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Originally posted by Maurice
I just saw the motorweek review on Speed Channel about 30 mins ago. It looked as though their test driver was having the best time of his life pushing the RX-8 through the turns.
Woo-hoo!!!!
I just saw the motorweek review on Speed Channel about 30 mins ago. It looked as though their test driver was having the best time of his life pushing the RX-8 through the turns.
Woo-hoo!!!!
The thing I really like about the motorweek pieces are that they are very concise and well-written with good production quality. They show you what you need to see like the fairly big guy (about 6'1" 200lb) getting in the back seat and tell you what you need to hear like pricing etc.
All on comercial-free PBS. Can't beat that. I loved the segment as much as I loved the car shown.
-Mr. Wigggles
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i saw it today. it was odd cause normally when they do 0-60 tests, they show it, but for the rx8 they just said 5.9. and they also didnt do a 1/4 or a braking, or a slalom like they usally do. pretty weird
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Originally posted by tribal azn2
i saw it today. it was odd cause normally when they do 0-60 tests, they show it, but for the rx8 they just said 5.9. and they also didnt do a 1/4 or a braking, or a slalom like they usally do. pretty weird
i saw it today. it was odd cause normally when they do 0-60 tests, they show it, but for the rx8 they just said 5.9. and they also didnt do a 1/4 or a braking, or a slalom like they usally do. pretty weird
Smoke and mirrors, if you ask me.
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Here's the full Motorweek review (not CarKeys version) in case anyone is interested:
MotorWeek_04.22.03_RX-8.mpg.zip
05:44 min, 38 MB
video: 320x240 MPEG-1 1-pass VBR 800 kBit/s, 1000 max
audio: 44.1KHz stereo, 128 kBit/s
MotorWeek_04.22.03_RX-8.mpg.zip
05:44 min, 38 MB
video: 320x240 MPEG-1 1-pass VBR 800 kBit/s, 1000 max
audio: 44.1KHz stereo, 128 kBit/s
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If you watch the track footage closely, it shows a left hand drive for part of the segment and a right hand drive at others. Why the two cars?? Is it even their footage?? Anyone else notice this or am I on crack?
"She's so ugly...looks like someone set her face on fire and tried to put it out with an ax!"
"She's so ugly...looks like someone set her face on fire and tried to put it out with an ax!"
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Here's the full Motorweek review (not CarKeys version) in case anyone is interested:
MotorWeek_04.22.03_RX-8.mpg.zip
05:44 min, 38 MB
video: 320x240 MPEG-1 1-pass VBR 800 kBit/s, 1000 max
audio: 44.1KHz stereo, 128 kBit/s
Here's the full Motorweek review (not CarKeys version) in case anyone is interested:
MotorWeek_04.22.03_RX-8.mpg.zip
05:44 min, 38 MB
video: 320x240 MPEG-1 1-pass VBR 800 kBit/s, 1000 max
audio: 44.1KHz stereo, 128 kBit/s
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