View Poll Results: Which do you like Best, FC or FD
FC FTW
40
25.00%
FD FTL
120
75.00%
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FC vs FD
the giant tastetickles
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FD...
Great concept:
1. Chassis based on a fighter plane for lightweight design
2. Twin-Turbo concept to eliminate turbo lag though it didn't work out too well
3. Designer emphasize more on functionality than aesthetic unlike his son who designed the RX-8. (Got this info from Zoom-Zoom magazine at the Mazda dealership)
4. Designed to compete with Nissan GTR32 as mentioned/shown in BMI Platinum Series Volume 6
5. The car just looks good even nowadays.
Great concept:
1. Chassis based on a fighter plane for lightweight design
2. Twin-Turbo concept to eliminate turbo lag though it didn't work out too well
3. Designer emphasize more on functionality than aesthetic unlike his son who designed the RX-8. (Got this info from Zoom-Zoom magazine at the Mazda dealership)
4. Designed to compete with Nissan GTR32 as mentioned/shown in BMI Platinum Series Volume 6
5. The car just looks good even nowadays.
wtf?! lol - i was just lookin' at some of these pics thinkin' they were taken in japan or something then recognized some of these places!! lol 1st pic is at SR Motorcars in LA - 2nd pic was in Rancho Cucamunga at the Shine Autoproject bbq (i could SWEAR i was the one who took that pic too!) and the 3rd was in irvine in the Mazda HQ parking lot!! 
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idgaf - FC's ftw!
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idgaf - FC's ftw!
as for the look, FD is better flow 
below i found on Car Domain with Veilside fortune kit.. anyone know the paint colour?
> Piston Man
Joined: Aug 2010
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From: Fayettenam
There are a lot of tragically riced-out/goofily-body-kitted cars in this thread. 
The FB has been mentioned as a very clean car - I think that it's perhaps the 'cleanest' of the three designs. That said, I'm not a huge fan of it by today's standards...with the exception of this one: https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=183299
That golden color and those wheels give it a really classic look. Someone please buy that thing and take good care of it for him.
Anyway. The FC certainly isn't bad in my book, but most of the 'good looking' pictures of it in this thread have some kind of aforementioned weird deformed looking body kit on them - either that or some tragically ricey wheels. It's a good looking car but it's already so angular that it needs a more understated lower body to it. My friend has a serious beater of a FC, somewhat scuffed up with a 300ish-HP LS1 stuffed under the hood. Very fast in a straight line. He autocrosses with it sometimes. Not sure how that goes.
For me, though, it's gotta be the FD. I had a really hard time turning it away before I bought my RX8, but it's a 2-seater, the upkeep is utterly killer (it's basically a race car) and it gets terrible gas mileage. All that said, it's still so insanely good looking (especially with the Efini factory mods) and such a bad *** car I still find myself pining for one sometimes.
Also, it featured in the ONE good scene in The Fast and the Furious : the CGI graphic where Vin Diesel punches the naawwz button and it briefly shows the inside of the rotary engine. I think it's the only such graphic in the movie that doesn't feature something breaking.
The FB has been mentioned as a very clean car - I think that it's perhaps the 'cleanest' of the three designs. That said, I'm not a huge fan of it by today's standards...with the exception of this one: https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?t=183299
That golden color and those wheels give it a really classic look. Someone please buy that thing and take good care of it for him.
Anyway. The FC certainly isn't bad in my book, but most of the 'good looking' pictures of it in this thread have some kind of aforementioned weird deformed looking body kit on them - either that or some tragically ricey wheels. It's a good looking car but it's already so angular that it needs a more understated lower body to it. My friend has a serious beater of a FC, somewhat scuffed up with a 300ish-HP LS1 stuffed under the hood. Very fast in a straight line. He autocrosses with it sometimes. Not sure how that goes.
For me, though, it's gotta be the FD. I had a really hard time turning it away before I bought my RX8, but it's a 2-seater, the upkeep is utterly killer (it's basically a race car) and it gets terrible gas mileage. All that said, it's still so insanely good looking (especially with the Efini factory mods) and such a bad *** car I still find myself pining for one sometimes.
Also, it featured in the ONE good scene in The Fast and the Furious : the CGI graphic where Vin Diesel punches the naawwz button and it briefly shows the inside of the rotary engine. I think it's the only such graphic in the movie that doesn't feature something breaking.
Last edited by Triangle Man; Aug 19, 2010 at 09:12 PM.
