Well it's been a blast, but the time has come to get a grown ups car because:
We took it for a trip around Coromandel 2 weeks ago, and was quickly reminded about what I love about this car. Reminded me of this trip down there with a lot of great people from here.
Twisty country roads are where it excels, but alas, I only get to drive like that a couple of times a year at most.
So I have traded in the RX-8 on a new Nissan X-trail Ti for my wife to drive, and I will have her Mazda 3 for my daily driver. I'll get to drive it on the weekends though!
Would have liked to keep it in the Mazda family, but the CX-5 is a bit on the small side when it comes to legroom, and we thought the CX-9 was too big and felt dated. Shame there curently isn't a CX-7, it would probably be about right. Love the x-trail though, but I will certainly miss the RX-8....maybe one day when the kids grow up and get there own cars I can get another sports car......
Anyway, just wanted to wave bye bye, and thank you all for making this forum so great, and for the memories of some great road trips with you guys!
- The kids are getting bigger, and they don't fit in the back of the 8 or my wifes 3 so well anymore. We need more space!
- I have been having problems with my hip, which seem to be aggravated by driving the 8 in Auckland's awesome rush hour traffic.
- It's coming up on 120,000km and I've started to worry about how much life it's got left in it before it goes BANG!
We took it for a trip around Coromandel 2 weeks ago, and was quickly reminded about what I love about this car. Reminded me of this trip down there with a lot of great people from here.
Twisty country roads are where it excels, but alas, I only get to drive like that a couple of times a year at most.
So I have traded in the RX-8 on a new Nissan X-trail Ti for my wife to drive, and I will have her Mazda 3 for my daily driver. I'll get to drive it on the weekends though!
Would have liked to keep it in the Mazda family, but the CX-5 is a bit on the small side when it comes to legroom, and we thought the CX-9 was too big and felt dated. Shame there curently isn't a CX-7, it would probably be about right. Love the x-trail though, but I will certainly miss the RX-8....maybe one day when the kids grow up and get there own cars I can get another sports car......
Anyway, just wanted to wave bye bye, and thank you all for making this forum so great, and for the memories of some great road trips with you guys!
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