Which pic are you talking about? quote it..

https://www.rx8club.com/lounge-4/went-out-style-164513/

Uh oh guys, looks like there's a breakout of a new curse for BB's. BEWARE.

NO SIR, you have it all wrong. just because an rx-8 has an accident, doesn't mean it is cursed, IF IT GETS RAN OVER BY A FREAKING TANK, NOW THATS A CURSE

:jerkit:



The overinflated number of silver rx8 accidents isnt due to a bs curse its due to the mass production of the most common color for an automobile in existence.

Ill admit, the tank running over the silver 8 didnt help my case however :banghead:

^^^ the 1st step to recovery is to admit that you have a problem. Begin your training all over again we must.

i see no tanks here. fail.

alright guys, this sucks. i saw this thread for the first time last night, and today, a SnapOn truck backed into to me and took out my rear left corner. I've had this car for almost 2 years and its been accident-free. Never using SnapOn tools again!

Look, I went on google and typed in bullshit rx8 curse and this came up!

A VR that got ran over by a tank!!!!

Silver curse is :jerkit:

here let me make that bigger for all to see...

proof!!!!!
https://www.rx8club.com/attachment.p...7&d=1231978089

^ You see, every bit proof that the curse if BS

:yesnod:

WOW!, what I was thinking?! I totally forgot about this VR. Poor thing, I'd hate to be the owner of that one :bowdown:

^it is a shame isn't it? such a nice paint job on that one

Yeah man, looks aftermarket eh?

custom...must've been expensive

that almost looks as good as one of alfys chops

Totally agree... So 05rex8, this forums always gonna be open, when the curse gets you, feel free to post :wiggle:

^unlikely

^just hypothetically speaking, if you DID get in an accident, would you believe?

no, lol. I don't believe in superstitions or things like that.

hey I made it into a signature (again).

Shouldnt I get like a gold star sticker or something?

Mods- PM me and Ill give you my address so you can ship that out

Silver is the most common color, so of course it'll be the color that is crashed the most. It would never be white, for example, because that's the rarest color (please spare me the Shinka color BS).

^^ My point exactly, that is why I started my quest which lead me to the magical picture of a Velocity red RX8 ran over by a tank which would act as proof and our point of how false the silver curse is will conquer the minds of silver rx8 owners everywhere and restore peace amonst our community.

silver, black, red, white, blue...if you ask me, it just hurts period to see a wrecked rx8

well if it makes you guys feel better, i've taken a WB into a crub or two....

As many said before, I believe there are many factors involved here.

The short list:
1. Number of silver cars produced, and shades of silver.
2. Amount of time vehicle is on the road.
3. Location, location, location.
4. Driver habits, and surrounding people.
5. Pure bad luck

or it could be a curse?

i say its the curse

There isn't such a thing as a curse.

Check out my err..8. MINT

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...a/IMG_0015.jpg

Drooool.

That photo was from 6/2005. Where is that 'mint' silver 8 today?? :)

https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-multimedia-photo-gallery-6/car-wash-56k-beware-seriously-63193/

curse? i am a believer
 

here's my contribution:

2 weeks after I bought the car I got caught in a hailstorm with hail like i've never seen in my life....end result 200 dents!

https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-multimedia-photo-gallery-6/hail-storm-117879/

pics are halfway down pg 1

LMAO. Caught redhanded.

I don't know. I traded it in 3 years ago.

It was keyed two days after that photo was taken though. :spank:


I'm trying to look for my hit-and-run pics from from my newer 8 last year. Very nice. :lol:

curse = BS.

Go on youtube, google images, etc. and type in wrecked rx8; it wont only be silver thatll pop up.

LOL this sucks the curse got me a few months ago lol

There's no goddamn curse!

thats cuz you got a red 8 LOL

Mine has a little case of curse:

2 months after I got it, somebody CRAPPED ON THE HOOD in a parking lot overnight. (Psycho chick bad at make and model recognition of ex-bf's car, I think -- a couple days later my neighbor's silver Acura RL had 'LIAR' carved in the driver's door...)

A few months after that, some $h!tb@g bounced a shopping cart off the side of it at the grocery store -- $1200 worth of too lazy to walk a goddamn cart to the little corral. Here's the curse part of the story, though: While it was at the body shop, one of the techs tripped and dropped a spinning grinder on the ( previously undamaged) trunk. So mine has 1 1/2 coats of Sunlight Cursver on it...

I'm wondering what's going to show up on CarFax when I go to sell it later this year. (Do DMVs still consider anything over $500 to be a 'significant' accident in the vehicle history?)

^damn so youre saying someone left a log on your car?

Roger that. I was extremely unhappy with humanity for a little bit. What cheered me up was imagining the surprise in the conversation at the other house:

Psycho: "So what do you think of what happened to your car?"
Ex-BF: "Huh? There's nothing wrong with my car."
Psycho: "There... ISN'T?!?!?!"

:lol: That is frigging CRAZY! You should have jizzed on his car seats as revenge.

An appropriately sick response, but I really wasn't turned on by him, his Accord (I mean Acura), or the psycho...

anyone recently been hit with curse of the silver?

Daammnnn am I glad for my stormy blue haha...might be a curse or might not but all those wrecked 8s makin me cringe...ouch!!

I wonder if anyones made a "wrecked 8s" thread? Find all the wrecked 8s on the internet and tally up the colors hahaha...

Curse hmmmmmmm I don't know. I've seen all colors wrecked, mangled, etc. However, I am convinced that Mazda is paying people to drive , find our 8 and the wreck them like a bumper car at the county fair. Why you ask? because 90% of their techs can't service the dam things anymore. Mazda quality control Haha

thank god mine is ti grey (KNOCK ON WOOD)

The silver curse is pure myth.

The insurance companies have done studies and silver cars actually have about the lowest accident rate, of all makes and models.

In our local 8 club, we've lost 2 blacks this year, never a silver. Oh, and one red one was lost to a member's ex-wife in a divorce, so that's the same as totaled, as far as he is concerned, lol.

I've had my SS 2-1/2 years and I don't even have a door-ding. It's still pristine. :)

2 RX-8 out of 80 has been wrecked at track days in Sweden, both where.... silver.

Ti Grey = SS with a darker tan. ask alienrx8 who totalled his 3 months ago.

I seem to remember posting this a couple of years ago, but here it is again just in case I didn't. It's from a study done in New Zealand, but I recall that similar studies world-wide didn't differ too much from what is presented here:

http://www.wisegeek.com/is-there-a-l...-accidents.htm

From the article:

"The study involved accidents in New Zealand between 1998 and 1999. According to their findings, drivers of brown cars had the highest risk of sustaining serious injuries caused by auto accidents. Black and green cars also had elevated risks.

Which are the safest cars? Drivers of silver-colored cars, according to the report, have a 50% less chance of being involved in an injury-causing accident than do drivers of white cars! While the results are surprising, more studies need to be performed before we all rush out and repaint or replace our vehicles."

Good thing the RX-8 never came in brown. :puke:

Good to know. I will avoid Swedish tracks at all costs.