RX-8 Videos Consolidated
 

We have been having difficulty hosting videos, so I put all the ones I have downloaded up on my webserver Here are links:

Make sure and right click and then click Save Target As... in order to download these puppies.

Mazda PR from an Auto Show (MPEG):
http://www.sickcylo.com/temp/Rx8MazdaShowPR.mpg

Best Motoring Intro (DivX):
http://www.sickcylo.com/temp/BM_Intro.avi

Best Motoring California Drive (DivX):
http://www.sickcylo.com/temp/BM_CaliforniaDrive.avi

Best Motoring Time Attack (DivX):
http://www.sickcylo.com/temp/BM_TimeAttack.avi

Best Motoring Laguna Seca (DivX):
http://www.sickcylo.com/temp/BM_LagunaSeca.avi

Car and Driver TV (MPE):
http://www.sickcylo.com/temp/CD_RX-8.mpeg

cool, thanks cylo! :cool:

did anyone notice the estimated weight in the best motoring intro? It states 1310 to 1340 kg. That's 2882 lb to 2948lb! :eek:

okie dokey, all uploaded.

Thanks Cylo! Just PM'ed you about the other files.

wtf, look at the BM time attack, its clearly a us spec model cause of the orange reflectors and left hand drive, but look at the speedo, at 1 point it actually hits 174!!! now the question is, is that km/hr or mph/hr? i really doubt the rx8 is capable of hitting 170+? buts its us spec, so wtf? anyone clearifly?

Another video courtesey of Gamera:

http://www.sickcylo.com/temp/BM_Intro.avi

Available in 12 minutes.

And the last for today:

http://www.sickcylo.com/temp/BM_CaliforniaDrive.avi

In 24 minutes.

OMFG, you guys are DESTROYING the bandwidth on the server. It is notmally DLing at 400k/s and it is down to 120k/s :D. Don't worry I have unlimited bandwidth... :D

there might be a switch on the dash to change the speed from displaying mph to km/h.

Hooooray for Cylo :D

the BM time attack speedo is definitely in km/h

as a rule of thumb, 100km/h is about 60mph.... Taking that conversion into account, then the numbers are very reasonable, actually very good for a production car on that track :)

Sweet! Thanks! When I get my fileserver back up, perhaps these will still be available for download.

hmm .... am i the only one having trouble viewing the best motoring videos ?? when i try to open them, i can only hear the sounds, and i see no video. can anyone help ?? thanks. =)

but why??!?! why would they change the speedo to km on a us spec rx8

Indeed, did anyone notice the caption over the scene of Kurasawa-san donning his helmet? I don't read Japanese, but I can make out enough Western numbers and letters to guess that it's saying that someone has previously clocked an NSX around Laguna Seca in 1'50", and some other vehicle (unfortunately all in Japanese) in 1'45.87". The RX-8 comes in at 1'50.70", which ain't too shabby at all. :D

Umm... because the footage was shot for the Japanese market?

It'd be nice if the speedo and odo units can be switched by the driver (a la many European cars), but I suspect that it may require an OBDII hookup.

the Best Motoring videos are in Divx codec. If you don't have that codec installed, all you will get when opening the files are the audios.

go to www.divx.com and download the latest Divx codec! for free!

good luck!

that 'some other' vehicle would be a North American market model car (I can read the last few characters, but not the name of the car), I wonder what it is...

so a $27000 RX-8 can run neck to neck with a $90000 supercar? nice! :D

thanks !! ... got the codec. ill ask my japanese friend if he can translate those =)

then why not use a japanese spec car in the first place?

those times dont make any since at all

http://www.car-videos.com/performance/track.asp?track=2

ok I did a little Japanese characters phonetics searching on Google, and here's what I think how to pronounce the name of the first car in the caption (the one with 1:45.87)

ready?

Su-(p/f)u-ra

Supra??? :confused:

it could also be a non-UK, Euro-spec RX-8, which will be left hand drive AND in metric unit ;)

read the paragraph on this page:

http://www.car-videos.com/performance/index.asp

"The performance numbers were calculated using the famous Cartest simulation software plus several other tools."

those numbers are SIMULATED numbers, the one in the video is an actual timed lap, so which one will you believe?

No, those times don't make any sense - you can clock the RX-8 at 1'50" by watching the TimeAttack video yourself.

Either they changed the configuration of Laguna Seca recently, or the folks at car-videos.com couldn't drive a nail. ;)