Best Motoring RX8 Preview video
 

http://www.bestmotoring.jp/lineup/index.html

Video should be up in a day or two . . .

Video is now up. The Renesis sounds sweet! Gearing appears similar to the S2000. Nice car!

:D

Sweet!

Notice that the digital speedometer jump around and not counting sequentially, ie, 80 to 84, 98 to 101.

And also, notice in the Time Attack segment, he shifts at about 9500 rpm or so, and looks like he could go all the way to 10k if he wanted:D :D :D

Hrm, doesnt work for me. Any other formats other than Real Player?

sweeett!!:D :D

That was awesome, thanks Rob!

tallguylehigh, I put an MPEG-1 version of just the RX-8 segment here (352x240, 48s, 5MB):
BEST MOTORing RX-8 (edit).mpg.zip

update - look here:
http://www.rx8forum.com/showthread.p...0121#post30121

Nice!
:D

Gamera,

Thank you, you are the man!

i am LITERALLY BREATHLESS watching that!! OH MY F***ING GOD!!!
that is seriously one fast ass car...
btw gents, the speedometer is in kph, just before you gettin' your hope up too high ;)
but that is SICK acceleration, i never imagined anythign like that... wow...

WE want more!!!!

:D :D

Damn! I was hoping that since that was at Laguna, it was a u.s. spec car so I was seeing mph.

I haven't heard that beautiful hummmm since my 1st generation 1985 RX-7 !

How sweet it sounds!!

:D :D :D :D

I was definately meant to be born rich...

COOL! :D :D

Is this from a VHS/DVD we can buy?!? Sure looks like it....although I can't read japaneese! :p

LOL grimmy still not getting the rx-8? its worth the money

The Japanese Motoring DVDs are not for sale outside Japan, but I'm sure there must be some sorts of copies floating around. Also, these are not the same videos as Motoring International, which are available worldwide.

Great work Gamera, could you do the same with the vids from
http://www.rx-8.mazda.co.jp/gallery/movie.html ???

WOW...
 

the exhaust note is so deep... its like an aftermarket exhaust... COOL!!! :D

did any1 point out that the driver shifted passed 9000 rpm!!!! at a speed of over 100 on second gear... it must b on km/h... but its nice to have a high rev limit... :cool: wish my FD had the renesis engine... not that im complaining... hehehe...

Tanx for the video... more plzzzzzzz ;)

...watched the video again!
could it be that he was in 4th gear?? and in a speed of over 100+ in mph?? hahaha me confused now.... wat do u think guys?? :D

I think that he shifted from 2nd to 3rd in the video.

the speedo is digital, so you can probably switch b/t mph and kph anyway, even on u.s. spec cars...

i think there were beeps as shifting prompts. it seemed like the prompt goes off at 8500rpm and he let it rev up to 9500 and shifted. it's CRAZY! that's even higher revving than s2k, isn't it? it's so AWESOME!!! how come the american magazines don't post videos like this =(

the speedo went up to 139 while redlining, has to be in kph

:D

One thing I noticed is that it looks like the tach is a bit behind the engine. I put a lightened flywheel in my car and now I really notice some tach lag. I know for the Miata, you can change the damping by modifying the circuit board behind the tach, but for folks with stock Miatas, you can't really notice the lag.

I would have figured for a stock RX-8, Mazda wouldn't have overdamped the tach.

What do you guys think? Anyone else notice this?