My g/f really wants me to get an Rx8. Ever since we went into the dealer to look at 6's and Mazdaspeeds she's been infatuated with the 8.
Well now that the dealers are willing to deal on 8's, I decided to do some reading up on them.
Wow, I feel fortunate to own a MSP. RX8's, although have less minor problems, they have some serious issues for $30k cars.
First, their projected resale is in the TANK; way worse then MSP.
Second, nearly half of the users are reporting bad gas mileage (like 12-16 MPG).
Finally, others (around 25-33%) are reporting serious rotary flooding problems. The dealer is not deflooding the engines under warranty either. Some people have to wait three days to start their car again after flooding it. By that time they've seriously put some wear and tear on the starter.
The manual describes how to properly operate the car to avoid flooding (read: Mazda knew about the problem way ahead of time). It says to start the car and let it idle for 5 minutes and to never turn the car off with the water temp cold. I warm up my car, but I'm not going to sit in my freezing cold car for 5 minutes to let it warm up; I'm sorry, this is just a Mazda not a fighter jet.
That has seriously soured me on the Rx8 100x more then the MSP. I'm so glad I didn't let my g/f talk me into the Rx8. If they had the great deals I probably would've got one, but at the time the dealers wanted sticker for a Rx8, or $15,995 for an 03 MSP; I took the economical decision.
It's really too bad; Mazda is in some serious need of some quality assurance on their vehicles.
I don't care how great it drives, getting stranded by your brand new $30,000+ car is not cool. Blowing an engine because you up'd the boost is a bit more acceptable, at least you did something that Mazda didn't want you to do.
Well now that the dealers are willing to deal on 8's, I decided to do some reading up on them.
Wow, I feel fortunate to own a MSP. RX8's, although have less minor problems, they have some serious issues for $30k cars.
First, their projected resale is in the TANK; way worse then MSP.
Second, nearly half of the users are reporting bad gas mileage (like 12-16 MPG).
Finally, others (around 25-33%) are reporting serious rotary flooding problems. The dealer is not deflooding the engines under warranty either. Some people have to wait three days to start their car again after flooding it. By that time they've seriously put some wear and tear on the starter.
The manual describes how to properly operate the car to avoid flooding (read: Mazda knew about the problem way ahead of time). It says to start the car and let it idle for 5 minutes and to never turn the car off with the water temp cold. I warm up my car, but I'm not going to sit in my freezing cold car for 5 minutes to let it warm up; I'm sorry, this is just a Mazda not a fighter jet.
That has seriously soured me on the Rx8 100x more then the MSP. I'm so glad I didn't let my g/f talk me into the Rx8. If they had the great deals I probably would've got one, but at the time the dealers wanted sticker for a Rx8, or $15,995 for an 03 MSP; I took the economical decision.
It's really too bad; Mazda is in some serious need of some quality assurance on their vehicles.
I don't care how great it drives, getting stranded by your brand new $30,000+ car is not cool. Blowing an engine because you up'd the boost is a bit more acceptable, at least you did something that Mazda didn't want you to do.
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. One person didn't even check his oil and Mazda voided his warranty. So now that person has to buy a new motor out of pocket. That has to really suck to pay $7-8k for a new motor. I'll have to ask my friend Syntrix about the RX-8 probs.
