Jap show at Santa Pod UK
 

Spotted this 8 at the Jap car show at Santa Pod raceway (Northants, UK) on the weekend just gone. There were only 3 RX8s there. 2 were stock. This being the only noteworthy one. Some of you may have noticed the driver side door is a gullwing set up but not the passenger side. Spoke to the owner, he said he couldnt get the car ready intime for the show and shine competition on the day and the gullwing kit for the other side was till in the garage at home. He also said he was midway thru getting hydros fitted to the car. Shame they werent fully operational, would have been fun to watch him bounce it around the competition paddock.

Wasnt sure to post this here or in the Exterior Appearance and Body Kits sectoion. But guess with the ammount of kit he packed in the back seats its gotta go here. I'm not into ICE or anything in that area so I have no clue what I am looking at but a friend who loves his ICE told me he was packing around £15,000 of kit there. I regret not taking a pic of the front dash area as he had fitted his head unit to a custom area in the ceiling just above the rear view mirror. Looked very unique.
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gullwing? drivers side?

i see stock on the drivers side and lambo on the front passenger...

maybe i need to clean my glasse ;)

otherwise, i like the system setup :)

speechless

Guess its a language thing :p gullwing doors are what i think u call lambo doors. (or r gullwing doors those that u have on the GT40? i'm just clueless) N as for the driver side stuff, its a UK car so driver/passenger seats r prob opposite 2 the way u r used 2 dem :)

"JAP", I can't believe anyone still uses this racial slang. Unless you are just to lazy to and the letters "AN" .

good point... i fergot you guys over there drive on the wrong side of the road ;)

and as far as i knew, gullwing opens with the hinge on the top of the door (like a flapping wing) and lambo doors are like the one in the pic, (front-upwards)

not just some people use this racial slang, try a whole country. Its kinda the norm to say jap instead of japan in the UK. As for the "jap show" thing, check it out its not just me who says jap

http://japshow.co.uk/

every1 here does.

Guess we r just 1 big country of lazy mofo's

Oh...OK, since everyone does it then it MUST be acceptable. Give me a break.

Hideous; worse yet it seems like they were going for form over function and failed at both.

Way overboard on the sound system....rear doors with all the speakers looks tacky.

How dare u say we drive on the wrong side of the road!!! I thought a Canadian of all people would acknowledge the authority of H.M. The Queen and know that what she decrees can never be wrong :p :D

On the other hand thanks for clearing up the door thing. Gullwing- name seems more logical now. I always wondered the name never suited, looked more like "swooping eagle wing" doors than gullwing. But now it makes more sense :)

Seems like the 2 of you are indicating that is is some sort of racial slang? unless you ARE japanese and take offense, I will not be retracting my previous statements

If you ARE japanese, then I will apologise and correct any future posts

FYI,

4080 is the brother to Mark Fukuda and he is part Japanese.

"Jap" is used as a short term for Japanese all over the world except in the US where it was used as a derogatory term for Japanese during the World War II. (Given Pearl Harbor and all it was accepted at the time but since has become taboo.)

Just like "sucks" has become acceptable to say, and no longer refers to a blow job, I think "Jap" is more and more simply short for Japanese.

I think it is solely a context thing. I think it is pretty obvious when "Jap" is used in a derogatory manner and when it is not.

-Mr. Wigggles

Ps. My Dad who is a big WWII buff used to give me long rundowns of military history when I was a kid and after an hour of saying "Japanese" over and over he would start switching to "Jap". He would say things like: "The Japs made the Mitsubishi Zero and with their superior torpedoes were an unstoppable force at the start of the war." He obviously didn't mean it in a derogatory manner. His lectures were very un-opinionated.

Ahhhhh kinda can see how it could be taken the wrong way. And it is harder for some1 to understand the context things r said when its written.

Totally get your P.S. but in a reverse way, because my mum is chinese and was born in singapore and 7 years old when the japanese invaded. She has seen family and friends die in the worst ways. Since then she has never forgiven the japanese. I remember when i first collected manga comics n watched anime when i was a teen, she went crazy. She doesnt use the term jap i guess cos of her age, but when she says japanese or japan u can tell from her tone exactly what she means. Shes even kinda pissed off I am planing to get a japanese car (again!!) LOL. she buys those cheap ass cars like opels and fords (no offence to any1 :p ) Not my fault that Japan make the finest cars around :)

Thanks for the pictures, not really what I would want to do with my rear seat. Too bad no one looked to see that you were posting from the UK. Hence, the right hand drive and use of different slang. It might have staved off a variety of questions.