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About 2 months ago I had an urge to get a toy. Just coming out of winter so I wanted to hit Spring running. After many driving experiences with many 2 seat sports cars from all makes I fell in love with a 2004 Titanium metalic grey GT package 8 with 9600 miles. It was an impulse and I did zero research other than a 2 hour test drive on every highway, back road, curve that I could find. Worked the tach to the max, took her to 130 and tried to break her loose on many a tight curve. Filled it up to check the MPG and took it home. Since then I only had her out a few times. Stays in the garage until I get home and the sun is up. I feel 140 mile round trips to work each day will wear her out. Of course the few nice weekends we had, we were together all day. It did not come with any service papers or stickers for TSB's. With a build date of July 03 I will probably take it in and have all things checked or need to run the VIN to see whats in the database. |
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| I WAS SOME WHAT RELUTANT TO PURCHASE THIS CAR BUT AFTER READING THESE REVIEWS ABOUT THE 8 MT I AM GOING FOR IT WHAT THE HELL YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE.... | |
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Hello, I just bought a RX8. Its a great car. It is the Shinka automatic. I am looking to see if anyone also bought this model and how is your experience. Thank you and looking forward to hearing from you. AJ
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AJ Welcome!! As a fellow AT owner (not the Shinka), I am interested in how yours goes! Update us when you can! The cheeze
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Cheeze, Thank u for the reply. I am enjoying the car. It is so smooth to drive. I am getting good MPH as I am driving it very consertively. I have yet to test the actula MPG. Be careful of the lowness of the car u are parking in Mall and also the curb. The rims are so low and it can damage the rim. I had already has such an experienece. What is your experience with MPG( miles per gallon) in your car. AJ
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Replying to: aj3 (Jun 29, 2005 11:50 am) Some prior posts here (not necessarily this chat room), have people discussing how they scratched their rims. Be careful with them. Also, some posts lately describe not being so gentle in your driving, but to "blow out the crap" each day. Might hurt the gas mileage, but fun to do. Have to put to manual shift mode to be effective with the AT. 
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Replying to: cheezeboy (Jun 28, 2005 3:14 pm) What color did u get. And how is your MPG. I did measure my MPG yet. I am waiting to go a long trip. So far all is good. Enjoy your summer. AJ |
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hey yall, i had gotten back from over seas about 6 or 7 months ago, im gettin out of the marine corps so i figured what the hell..... my first car i got when i was 22. bought it myself when i came back from overseas the first time. i bought a honda prelude SH 01 MT, i loved it but after a while it started giving me problems so i traded it in... i pick up my 2004 canary yellow rx-8 MT with the GTpckg today at noon. and from reading all of ur input that everyone has donated, and pathstars great wisdom on the car i am proud to be an owner of an rx-8. i also i paid 25,000 for it, its got 50 miles on it from whatever they do with em at the lot, is that good or bad?
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