i personally am going for the white for some variety in my BT collection. plus i just really like the way the RX-8 looks in white.

up till now all the shots ive seen have been left hand drive but here hes right hand drive so thats 3 or 4 veriants off one guy with out a remold (white RHD, white LHD, red RHD, red LHD) my thery is alts will be LHD and BT RHD as japan drive on the left ( as we all should :P )

here i am searching the net like crazy for real pics of Red Meister and everybody's already posted them, he def is a must have for me, looks like the 1st bt i buy if he's a japan exclusive.

The red looks OK in die cast, but like Jaguaratron said, it looks a bit dark. I'm thinking it won't be so dark in the Alt version.

 

These are probably also the first pictures of the BT metal versions too.

 

As for the Japanese text, I don't read a word of Japanese, but my educated guess is that is says the Binaltech Mazda RX-8 will be coming out in September at a cost of 5229 Yen. Hahahaha... most of that text will say transformers, binaltech, mazda, etc. in Japanese

I got this from Tfw2005.com