it's called TITANIUM GREY, not gunmetal

 

AFTER MY REBATE IT CAME TO $17,500

 

mazdaspeed is putting out a miata next. factory turbo and a few coesmetic stuff. still not crazy numbers, but it helps.

 

tokyo auto salon had a mazdaspeed rx-8. looked hot in the mag i got.

 

the cars are ok but there are too many minor problems that are a real pain. i alos am dealing with caseys service dept. and they arent the brightest.

 

Please tell me you are kidding, mazdaspeed's are the slowest turbo charged car I have ever heard of. Like it needs brake cooling ducts

 

Yeah, I must say the same. The car is nice as hell, and looks damn good, inside and out. I debated the decision to buy one for almost 3 weeks. What ultimately led me to the decision to not buy one, were all the issues that some of the owners said they were having. I would log onto www.Protege5.com and it would seem like some one would be complaining about their problems every day. Yes it's true some people love the car, but I wouldn't be too happy about having some of the problems. Just to name a few; a lot of the owners had a hesitation problem, clicking coming from the suspension bushings, an ignorant CD player, and a few of the guys said they had leaking trunks.

Lastly, a few of the guys had tried to trade their cars in, ( due to the annoying problems ) and 3 of those guys had less than 12k miles on their cars. What they found out was that the cars value had dropped down to 11k. I think the most one of the guys was quoted was like 13,000 for their car and that was in mint conditon and low miles. They may not seem like big problems, nor did every car have them, but I look at it this way, I bought the car to drive, not take back to the dealership to have warranty work repaired.

All in all, nice car with potential and at a nice price. Just make sure you keep it, if you get one.

 

My specV had just came out I test drove it for 1 week aput 600 miles on it before I bought it.....

Not the biggest deal special edition but at the time (Aug 2002) no-one had them and they were hard to find, (SpecV only SE-R's were all over)


Dunno but that mazda dealer at the corner of greenbriar and millitary, think its called First team mazda, let me test drive the 2003.5 all i had to do was say, if you want me to even think about buying it i gotta drive it......(Who the hells gonna buy a car that they have never drove.......)