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Saw a nice looking winning blue in dalton-le-dale at the weekend meant to go back that way and get reg but forgot...
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Took the jag to the garage he was telling me there's another RX8 in town he had it in the shop a few days ago :O apparently with decals on it... gonna try find it
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I saw one on the way to buy mine, felt like a sign to see one parked up about 10 minutes into my journey
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Saw diamond grey R3 on A12 northbound on Monday 6 Sept. Number plate RX08 AND.

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I live in Germany and RX-8s are ultra rare here. I can only recall seeing one RX-8 "in the wild" in the last couple of years plus one near the Nürburgring. The statistics of the registrations are public here and on January 1st 2020 there were only 962 6-Port RX-8s left in the entire country and this number is going down rapidly in the last years
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I've had mine nearly a month now and haven't seen another one so far, I'm in Long Eaton which is in Derbyshire but has a Nottingham post code.
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Saw a Winning Blue on Park Hill Drive, Coventry caught me unawares I managed a quick wave but never got his number.

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We were out on another 80+ mile Sunday run around NI today, in our 8, and didn't see any other one. :(

I thought I did at one point, coming the other way on a dual-carriage way but it was an MX5 cousin #-o
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I hardly ever see any 8's on the road but this last week has been almost daily sightings:

Copper red Evolve my son spotted in a local shopping district - parked up looking very poorly with 2 flat tyres (I see it every day now but I guess doesn't really count)
Red 8 which seems to be somebody's daily driver in Ashton-u-Lyne (my son always take a look to see it its home when we drive past)
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I saw a dark blue one parking up at Tesco in Long Eaton not far from where I'd parked so I went and said hello. Just taken mine for a test drive after fitting the Clutch switch.
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Driven all the way down to Beaulieu and back and not seen one RX-8 today :shock:

In fact can't remember since the last time I seen one on the road other than Monthly Meets :(
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there seems to suddenly be loads around me. there is a blue one 3 houses up from my dads house being daily driven. there's one at the local car wash that isn't always there so must be being used, I saw a 40th anni in white yesterday, there's a green one one street over from my house that moves quite often and I've seen 3 or 4 this last week (other than those) just randomly driving around. its like in grand theft auto, when you finally find that elusive car and suddenly they're everywhere!
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Very rarely see an RX-8 these days the last one I saw was a couple of weeks ago, it was really nice Crystal White 40th Anniversary with LED rear lamps when I had to go into the garage to get some paint brushes - does that count? :-k :lol:

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Ive been driving mine around the localilty of Milton Keynes for over 6 months now and am yet to see another RX8 on the roads. I've only seen some at the OC monthly meet and at Japfest but i reckon i may see some on route to Castle Coome in July if i'm lucky.
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Magsrx8 wrote:
Sun May 29, 2022 11:41 pm
Ive been driving mine around the localilty of Milton Keynes for over 6 months now and am yet to see another RX8 on the roads. I've only seen some at the OC monthly meet and at Japfest but i reckon i may see some on route to Castle Coome in July if i'm lucky.
Shame you didn't see me today. I was up at Milton Keynes at Simply Race in the PZ.

I used to be up there more when I did karting at Daytona MK but it's been a while.
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Post by New Duke »

There's loads here in North Essex/Suffolk. I see various S1s almost daily. I blasted past a black 231 on the A12 today in my XF. Turbo power.

Shame they're clearly not attending the local club meets, they'd fill the car park there are so many!
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v-rex wrote:
Sun May 29, 2022 11:43 pm
Magsrx8 wrote:
Sun May 29, 2022 11:41 pm
Ive been driving mine around the localilty of Milton Keynes for over 6 months now and am yet to see another RX8 on the roads. I've only seen some at the OC monthly meet and at Japfest but i reckon i may see some on route to Castle Coome in July if i'm lucky.
Shame you didn't see me today. I was up at Milton Keynes at Simply Race in the PZ.

I used to be up there more when I did karting at Daytona MK but it's been a while.
Bloomin typical, my timing is always rubbish, especially if there's traffic or a crash to be queued at lol

Reckon when i do finally see one on the road, i'll look like im having an epileptic fit in my excitement to doth caps so to speak, so maybe not a bad thing i havent...
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Ive just been looking at that silver fern motorsport that 79398 used a few weeks ago for his injector seals on facebook. Just because theyre logo etc is rotary and performance specialist with a rotor as symbol incase i ever need anything.

Anyway, they take pics of the cars theyve worked on feed, like simons, with a brief what it was in for. Loads of RX8s. Where are all these RX8s in North Wales? I was starting to think there was only me and Simon, yet there last 3 months of work pics would suggest there is many many more? Dont seem to recall silver fern being on here like clive or carl, and i would of thought any of them on here may of come forward on my wales tour posts etc
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There is only one RX-8 I know of in Horsham which is a road car, a Copper Red Evolve with gold wheels :shock:

PeteH's doesn't count, as it's a Race Car...... :!:

All the other ones have long gone, for other makes of cars :arrow: :arrow: :arrow: :arrow:
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Saw a Copper Evolve driving through Maidenhead centre , started a wave then remembered I was in the family CX-5 so reined it in.
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Saw a grey one today parked up in Chelmsford about mile from where I live. Not been down this particular road for a while & I was in the wife's car so I will go back & see if its still there as could off been just visiting.
Used to be a red one also not far from me I used to drive past it regularly but that seems to have gone now.
Every now & again there is a yellow one parked up & I actually got to speak to him in Tesco's car park he uses it for drifting.
But if I do see one in Chelmsford I'm always in my van!
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