you put your left foot in, you take your left foot out, you put your left foot in and you shake it all about...

No word form the credit union yet on the possibility of the GTO, but, dunno if I've mentioned this here or not, I was looking at a Mazda 6 5-door as a possible fall-back car. That fall-back car is now a Mazda RX-8. The same dealer where I was looking at the 6 has a commercial advertising $6000 off MSRP on the RX-8, which puts it well below the price of a 6, even with the options I want. So if teh Goat falls through, which I really, REALLY hope it does not, at least I'll still have a kick ass car....I"ll fight tooth and nail for that RX-8. The GTO is probably just a little outside my reach...but with $6000 off, the RX-8 is well in my range. Hey John, I might have an 8 afterall, happy yet? Bastard!


Let me clearify a few things here....the RX-8 optioned like I want is cheaper then the 6 5-door optioned like I want that I've already got paper work started on. While the automatice RX-8 has nearly 40 HP less then the manual 8, it's still got that aggressive as hell look to it. The major power drop and low HP number (only 197 on the auto 8, 238 on the 6-speed) is the main reason why the 8 is not on top of my list. That and chances are whatever I get will have four seats and will seat the three in my house more comfortably then the Ranger....so those times when we all go somewhere (not that often, but often enough) we'll all at least be more comfortable. Hmmmmm, a 350Z only has two seats, right? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........