Unfortinuately I have to agree, I use to be very active on this forum but now I only look over here from time to time. I am now very active on one of the smaller 350z forums and just look at the classifieds here to look for good deals on parts. The sad part is the RX8 forum is still not a very mature forum, and I have spent time on the board when I was looking for a second car to replace my 4runner.


I hate to hear about the accident, but it seems to me the driver of the 6 shares alot of the blame for the cause of the accident. I don't condone the actions of the driver in the 350z, but it is everyone's responsibility when driving to know what traffic is doing around you. This includes watching out for reckless drivers, faster moving cars, and quite honestly everything that can be seen that has the potential to cause an accident and/or alter the driving dynamics of the car. THe driver stoped in the road was being reckless if his car was still able to move, but the driver in the 6 should have been able to avoid from hitting a car that is not moving, regardless if it has brake lights or not.

Don't drive at a speed where your braking distance is further then the distance you can see and recogonize a possible threat to your safety. there are only a few cases that you can use the excuse that something came out of nowhere and it be ok...like birds, wild animals running on the road.... I stray away from this from time to time but if I were to get in to an accident as a result I would bare all the blame.

 

I think the fact that you were reading my post was just a coincidence ahahaha and yes 20 seconds is long for a couple sentences ahahaha later

 

Let me get this straight... you seem really pissed off because of a couple RX-8 owners stereotyping all 350z owners because of an idiot... so you decide to stereotype all RX-8 owners because of one or two idiots who happen to drive RX-8s... do you see the hypocrisy of this???

Somebody please delete this thread before our forum loses any more integrity...

 

Yeah, if the story is true, the Saturn driver reacted badly, and the Mazda driver was following too closely to react properly to the Saturn being thrown into reverse.

Of course that's only the Mazda driver's story. I wonder if that's the way it actually went down. Perhaps the Mazda was actually trying to race the Z (if there even was a Z involved), and the Mazda driver blew it when they hit traffic. The Saturn could have been knocked into reverse by the impact. Somehow that rings truer to me than the story told by the Mazda driver.

In any case, hitting someone from the rear is almost always the driver doing the hitting's fault. He was either driving too fast, following too closely, or failing to pay attention.

 

I am not looking to bad mouth any RX 8 owners. I am just trying to stand up for myself being a Z owner, it makes me mad see that kind of thing. I love the 8 I love the Z the S2000 and any other car. If this was an RX8 involved in the accident, I would say that the owner was an idiot because of this and not all RX8 owners. But reading through the RX8 threads makes me wonder what is wrong with the average 8 owner, you will see what I mean if you type in 350Z in their search engine.

 

I dont know why either... its just a side effect of their engine, and its nothing to be ashamed of. The RX-8 is a beautiful car.

 

350black,

That's kewl... the way the initial message came across to me was a little different... thanks for clarifying.

If a couple RX-8 owners want to trash my car, that's fine. I couldn't give a rat's @$$ what they think... I love my 350Z and A LOT of other people seem to love it too when I'm out cruising...