Wanna see an RX-8 powerslide?
 

Does it count as a powerslide if its wet?

Anyways it looks like there is a new set of rims (just a quick still of them right at the beginning). I like them a lot more than what has been seen so far just a classic spindley 5-spoke which looks pretty light:D

Damn, streaming video sucks! I'm on a 28.8 modem, so I get 3 seconds per frame...

Anyone find a way to *download* the video?

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Need I say more?

Bryan, you should change the prefs so that it doesn't stream, and will buffer the entire video before playing...

i'm on a Mac, and so know absolutely nothign about d/l'ing Media Player stuff (i got Media Player for Mac just to watch this video!! i've not used it before on an Apple before this...)

AND I"M SO DISAPPOINTED!!! the Zoom Zoom kid shoulda been screaming!! damn, that car looks hot... see the friggin' slalom??? and they're BABYING it!! (hence the "power slide" in the wet... ;))

For those of you who can't stream it, find a program called "asfrecorder".

The URL you want to record is:
"mms://wmt-od.stream.ne.jp/mazda/wmt/020927/01_300k.asf

when i try to get it with asfrecoder it stops at 98%

I noticed that too, they looked good! I tried to do a screen capture of the wheels to show those who couldn't download the movie, but when I pasted it to a paint program, all I got was a blank screen. :confused:

Ask, and you shall recieve:-

ftp://rx8:mazda@ftp.fsck.co.uk/01_300k.asf

Damn, I hate proprietary file format's and protocols... can everyone play this OK, I think I can convert it into AVI.

Works good for me! Residing on the hard drive now!

thanks blueadept, its working fine. i have trying for 3 hours to get the thing to run and you just saved me losing any more time and from getting a headache:D

edit: by the way, that vid is just too sweet. only problem is it is not long enough and you cant hear the engine:D

Thank those nice folks at http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/ for making some really awesome software...

Blueadept is 100% Microsoft free... And Apple free come to that!

Okay, had to upgrade to the latest version of mplayer to see it, but, well, *DAMN*!

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FINALLY, i got it playing on my tv out the bigger the better it help me image it in my drive way

GRAMMER !!!!!! my bad in a rush

OMFG its great! i love it...

bahh... but i dunno if i'll be able to afford the 8 when it first come out... maybe i'll see what the initial market thinks about it.

WOW!!! nuff said.

And there was much rejoicing throughout the land! Thanks BlueAdept! :)

The '8 looks gorgeous in red... :: drool :: :p

Thanks Blue, That plays soo much better now before it was very pixely when I played the streaming vid and it is much larger too. Great Job!! It's really nice to have someone that really knows what they are doing on boards like this. Since your such a pro do you think you could pull a still photo of the rims?

After watching the clip for the hundreth time I noticed the cooling ducts at the front appear to be larger then looked at some older pics and you can see that there is a difference the older ones have an additional insert or something because you can see a line and it appears in many pics so its not just the angle or anything like that.

I believe so, but I'm at work at the moment... I should have it sorted in about 8 hours.

Yeah, it looks like they've removed this insert (I didn't understand why it was there in the first place):

http://www.rx8forum.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=10363

I took a still last night, and photoshopped on my mazdaspeed pic.

here it is... make sure you hit refresh.

http://www.rx8forum.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=9799

The lip spoiler and side skirts are tasteful, though I don't dig the spoiler or the monstrous wheels :)

18s are fine by me, I don't even want chrome.

You actually have more than one person here who knows how to do that sort of thing. Here's a zoomed picture of the rims:
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~bridges/rx8rims.jpg