cmjaure

I have a sticker on my back window that sais mazda championship winner 86-87 it is a original sticker from the factory so if anyone knows about this let me know. By the way my car is a 88 gxl.

Icemark

Those stickers are getting very rare. They were a port installed sticker found on the rear windows of coupes for each year Mazda won the IMSA GTU championships.

flamin-roids

I had one on my '81.

cmjaure

ok instead of starting another thread can someone tell me if gtu's are turbocharged cause I am going to get one thats broke down for 250 is that a good deal it is a 91

J-Rat

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no, they are not.

cmjaure

thank you

apreludem

"ok instead of starting another thread can someone tell me if gtu's are turbocharged cause I am going to get one thats broke down for 250 is that a good deal it is a 91"


as i understand it, they were the turbo model but without the turbo.

Icemark

That would be wrong...

While yes they shared some of the things a Turbo had (like a rear spoiler, and shocks (but not spings), the 89-90 GTU is not any more a Turbo model than any other non turbo.

Even the famed 89-90 GTUs model only got the seats from a Turbo, but retained all the same non turbo driveline and suspension.

And there was no such thing as a 91 GTU model. In 91 there was only the coupe, the Turbo and the convertible.

walterh

Why doesn't somebody make replicas of these stickers? I would love to have one, because I scrapped mine off to tint my rear glass. Anybody wanna do it?

gxlspeeder

i have the championship sticker and the 1986 import car of the year sticker, is the car of the year sticker special too?

walterh

guess not

Atticus

Icemark he was talking about the '88 GTU. I don't know if that changes your answer but from what I hear it's comparable to the S5 GTUs in terms of suspension and as far as the "turbo without a turbo" statement goes. Icemark can probably clarify this.

EDIT: Nevermind, I saw that he had an '88 GXL. I skimmed over the GXL part and assumed he just had an '88. Oh well maybe he was asking about the '88 GTU?

ajsuper7

they are interesting to have, atleast it shows our cars do have a solid racing history, ive seen them on many s4/s5's but not in a long time, i guess as time goes on people take them off or they fall off, a replica would be nice.

SDrotary-FC

mine's still on there