Everybody calm down!
My name's James, and I'm an addict.
I had a Mazda RX-8 for about a year. It's a good all-rounder, but a particularly good driver's car. I never get sick of the sound that rotary makes blasting to almost 10,000RPM.
Then, three days after the warranty had expired, I was driving along I70 doing nothing fancy and the clutch exploded:
Honestly, RX-8's aren't the most reliable cars, so I paid through the nose to have the dealership install a new clutch and and she has a happy new owner.
And yes, I just drove Blue Meanie up to Iowa:
He's a bit dirty, but it's going to be May before anything is dry up here. We still have piles of snow on the ground!
A buddy of mine is a big MINI fan too, he works for the PD in the town over (on nights currently) so I took Blue Meanie down the
newly repaved and somewhat twisty bit of Highway 69 to go see him. The first s-curve on the east side of Lamoni was pretty awesome in 3rd gear.
The driving lights are great for spotting deer and other critters that are taller than the bottom of the bumper. Not a chance at getting them back, Dave!
All in all, not a bad first night with the car. He's going into the garage tomorrow and I'm coming back down to KCK in the Celica for some exciting hooah-hooah let's-play-Army stuff for the weekend.