What wrong with going fast AND being comfortable?

Since it's a sports car, Mazda should have inculded a special cupholder that tilts with lateral and longitudinal G's.

 

Most manufactures did not start building in cup holders until the early '90s.

Not too many cars before that ever had cup holders. It is a fairly new thing.

 

My 87 blazer had no cup holders, nor did my 1993 Mitsubishi Galant.

 

what year cars did the cupholder/coin idea come out of?

 

 

the coin/cup combo thing came out of early 90s fords. I had two tauruses with them in it. Although my 93 tempo didnt have it. Ive seen it in t-birds too. I think we had a 93 or so SHO with it in.

 

I thought they were there for seeds

 

My comment was mostly in jest. But did you know that German manufacturers were some of the last to start putting cupholders in their cars? They actually focus on driving in Germany and don't worry about eating, drinking, chatting on the phone, etc.

 

I was mostly joking as well. My '87 Buick doesn't have cupholders either.

As for the Germany/America thing, it can't simply be chalked to germans paying more attention to the road. America is a lot more spread out than Europe, that's going to make the averge drive longer and the amount of time a person spends in their car higher. Eventually you'll get thirsty.

 

I have to remebr to post a pic. I have mine on the passenger side 2+2 seat.

 

Icemark--where did you get that silver colered surround that goes around the radio and cupholder?? That looks very clean....I like it man!! Looks like I have a new project

 

That is actually an old picture. The silver was a cut piece of brushed aluminum that was used just as a radio surround.

The radio is actually bolted into a stock base model's radio mounts (the 88 'vert stock radio mount, mounts the radio off to one side), and the surround is bolted to the trim panel. The Cup holder slides in after the trim panel is installed, and locks into bottom section of the factory radio mount, though the trim panel and its aluminum radio surround.

The Ford/Saab cup/coin holder, was slightly too long to fit in the dash, so I did need to trim off about a 1/4 off the back of the cup/coin trays to make it fit depth wise.

Since that picture was taken; I have covered the aluminum with some gloss black sign vinyl which (I think) matches the Logicon/climate control, and radio face much better.

At one point I was considering modernizing some of the other trim like the door handle cups, and ash tray cover to a simular brushed aluminum look (much like many new cars are coming) but decided that it just looked too ricey, and not really in the style of the car.

You can't really see it in that picture, but the buttons and lights on the radio have been changed to orange (instead of the standard Alpine Green) except for the display panel, which displays white/blue, just like the stock clock in the 87-91 models.

 

Very nice Mark but I would have placed the cupholder tray above the Alpine 9815 so my venti mocha wouldn't get in the way. How do you manage to adjust vol and push buttons if you had a tall drink?

 

Wait, that thing in the glove compartment is actually supposed to be a cupholder? I thought it might be, but on trial test of it, I figured they couldn't be THAT horrible. I mean, the floor would even be a better solution, all it does is provide a flat surface, with little bumps in it so when you stop, the drink slides, hits the "curb" and tips over. Pretty crappy cup holder. As for now, my cup holder is between my legs, or my passenger.

 

Maybe it is made for eating while the car is stopped.
Anybody think of that?
haha

 

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The glove box lid cup holders are for use at the drive in movie.

We use to have drive in movies in Hawaii...no more.

Now we got a lot of late.

 

Going through old threads on this subject, noticed there were a few that had plans to fabricate their own cup holders, etc...

Anyone come up with something since then? Any pics of a decent cupholder setup you've rigged?

Thinking about picking up this and seeing what I can do with it..

 

cough ** miata cupholder mod ** cough

 

i use one of those slide-in cupholder that fits in the gap between the passenger seat and the center tunnel. Works great, passenger doesn't complain about cupholder intruding seating/foot space (the cat hump took care of that lol), i can take it out whenever I want, and it's got a little cubbie bin between the cup holes that I can put my cell phone into!

ah, a fine product from Wal-Mart for only $2.99!

 

Im used to it... i used to own a MKIII jetta... i mean, it HAD cup holders but, holy crap were they useless!

hell i dont even use the cupholders in my Lancer simply out of habit

=P

 

I just jam them behind the passanger seat, i lean it back, jam it in there, and go, hasn't failed me yet!

 

I use the center armrest.

 

for that question about icemarks cupholders and tall cups getting in the way. they do not set on top of it, the thing that slides out has holes in it for the cups to drop into so it would be more in the way to have the cd player under the setup

 

I have the same coin/cup tray as icemark in my 90 and it is a little too deep to fit right. The wire bundles from my head unit get in the way a little but I think if I trim the back edge down like mark did it should be fine. This I believe is the best solution to the cup holder problem. With a short shift and FD **** it doesn't get in the way of shifting either.