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nightfire10 wrote:Silver 8 with reg BAD opposite wicked coatings the other day!

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I see that one everyday as I pull into work!


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Had a little impromptu convoy with anther RX8 today down the A35, silver 231 S1, can’t remember the plate though


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Last Saturday I drove from Northampton to the Lake District (approx 250 miles).

Total RX8’s spotted = 1.

I drove round the Lake District all last week and drove 250 miles back to Northampton today.

Total RX8’s spotted = 0.
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Seen a Kuro in Cheltenham a couple of times recently K5 URO I think!
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Drove 170 odd miles today and saw 4! All in one trip back from Just north of Bristol/Bath area


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Today’s trip in the diesel Fiesta was to North London & back (Approx 130 miles).

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I drove to Guildford and back to Test Drive a New Car today and saw Zero RX-8's :(
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A2 Bangor bypass this morning, following a very standard looking VR.

We were in the Fiesta so had to resist waving...

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About 1pm - a blue R3 in Coventry while out for a lunchtime stretch of legs.

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Followed a red r3 in Derby at around 9am on Tuesday, just coming into the Rolls-Royce site. I was also in a Fiesta so had to resist the urge to communicate visually!

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I'm sure the number of times it happens that we see 8s whilst driving 'the other car' if we just start waving then the 8 driver can assume some sense of at least appreciation if not co-ownership.
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I get the urge when I see FDs as well. I think they deserve some kind of recognition and appreciation for their madness.
But how to convey that through the medium of hand signs? And not look like some mad fool in a Clio (also true but irrelevant).

Can't make a triangle symbol with one hand.. take both hands off the wheel?

Build up the warning triangle in the breakdown kit behind the seat and hang it out the window? I think that will just reinforce the Clio Madman stereotype.

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Hmm - some kind of OC-bat-signal-onna-stick...
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Dorito sellotaped to the forehead perhaps? Thus negating the possibility of missing the acknowledgement opportunity by being too slow to react?
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I'VE GOT IT

So simple.

So discreet.

So obvious to the initiated.

So genius.

So handsome.

Wait where were we again?


Just everybody carry one of those snorty pig dog toys and brap brap brap it out of the window.

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Lurid bumper stickers? " I'd rather be driving my RX8, but I don't get paid 'til next week! "
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what you want to do is hand gesture one half of the triangle out the window, then as you drive past and the other guy/gurl does it it will make a triangle as you smash wrists
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Ainmhidh wrote:Lurid bumper stickers? " I'd rather be driving my RX8, but I don't get paid 'til next week! "
I’d rather be driving my RX8, but it’s rebuild time!


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Today I went to Manchester near to the Trafford Centre & back (approx 300 miles).

Total RX8's spotted = 0
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:race:Left home last Friday now in Dax south west France in ma 350Z , RX8-0 350Z-0 370Z-1.
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I given up looking around West Sussex :(
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a blue 07 plate rx8 passed me on the A34 south near oxford in the late afternoon.
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One and a half airport runs (currently waiting to pickup ) and no RX8s spotted.

Did see a yellow MX5 in Templepatrick, exchanged waves and big grins :D

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