I've looked at 3-4 FCs in hope to buy, and on each of them I noticed a sticker on the bottom left corner of the hatch window reading "1987 Mazda championships" What's up with that? Golf tourney or what?

 

Its for the manufacturers cup I believe, basically means that the RX-7 was a badass at road racing from 79-88, when in 89 I think mazda switched from using it, and started using the Protege, but I could be wrong.

 

Yeah. That makes sense since all of the FCs were 88s, thanks!

 

In 89 they de-emphizied the RX-7 and switched to racing MX-6s to help that product.

 

My oh my, what were they thinking???

 

They were thinking the RX-7 was not selling as many cars as the MX-6 was, because the RX-7 was getting too expensive both to make and to buy.

89 and the S5 cars were the start of the death bells for the RX-7.

 

Oh kinda like the supra and 300zx, kinda phase the car out of the us market...

 

No, the Supra had great sales until late 95 early 96.

Mazda's problem was that the RX-7 was too expensive and the quality was goingt down hill with some of the short cuts they took in tha 89+ RX-7s.

You could get into a new FC with $12K in 86, by 90 the cheapest base RX-7 was $18-$19K even with all the short cuts Mazda took on the S5 cars.

But you could get a nice fully loaded MX-6 or even a fully loaded MX-5/Miata for $18K.

 

Well, I wasn't referring to the same time frame, but eventually they did phase the supra out, which really ticked me off. Same with a lot of other nice cars, like the 240sx, and 3000gt, but life moves on... Wait a minute... Chevy just phased out the Camaro...

 

GM has always been behind on the times... just when everyone else is bringing out a new generation of sports cars and sports coupes, GM phases theirs out.

 

yeah, they don't make my beloved cutlass supreme anymore, which used to be a freaking muscle car... Now it's replaced by the Alero, which I'm beginning to see people try to make them like imports...

 

So tell me, you guys like the pink godzira avatar or what??

 

NO!


He he, I just taught myself how to resize pics, so Im making a few avatars, my next one is probably going to be a Clio Sport.