GTUs listed as GTU

 

Holy poop. Thats a nice find.

 

That is one hell of a drive, but I may have to consider doing it. That is a hell of a nice car.

 

wish I had seen that a day ago

 

Ouch. That is in pretty rough shape. But it IS a GTUs.....

 

I thought all GTUs didn't have AC.. this one does...
FRIG 600 bucks!!!!! ME WANT!!!!!!!

 

AC was an option. Mine has it also.

 

how much is this thing worth? this is the one with the t2 tranny?

 

No TII Tranny, just an NA tranny with a closer ration 5th gear

 

Ouch. That thing is pretty rough... but it would clean up and look pretty good next to my other GTUs:

http://wozzoo.tripod.com/Temp/GTUs1.JPG
http://wozzoo.tripod.com/Temp/GTUs2.JPG
http://wozzoo.tripod.com/Temp/GTUs5.JPG

FYI: I paid $1800 for my GTUs three weeks ago. Mint shape, 98K miles, needs nothing but an antenna... Humm, I could use a parts car. Plus its only 350 miles away from me! I drove 450 miles for the red one. Oh, mine also came with A/C

 

what makes the car so good? Are these the rare ones?, I live like 30 miles away from it, I might check it out

 

HOLY CRAP!!! That is a fookin' DEAL!!

How did you find this! Man I'm jealous!

 

It's all about the gearing. The GTUs started off as the lite GTU base model. Then add the Turbo II suspension, 4 piston brake calipers with vented disks, a 4.3 LSD in the rear, a special set of gears in the transmission, and an Aluminum hood.
A/C was an option, but the sunroof was not. (Although there were a few with sunroofs) The car also came with the preferred speed sensitve power steering instead of the RPM sensitive.

Driving a GTUs is an experiance. It's different than every other NA I've driven. 5th gear is actually useful! IE: you're on the interstate, you want to pass, you just hit the pedal and go! No downshift needed and you're doing 100 mph! I love it.

as for being rare? Estimates have GTUs production around 2500 units for 89 and about 250-300 for 1990. This is about the same number as the 10th AE in 88.

 

I can't take all the credit... Triangle power found the car in the Autotrader. (He was looking for a GTUs or a Turbo II) He found his Turbo II, and I got the GTUs for a steal!

The deals are out there!!! The owner of my GTUs was a moron, but he did pretty good maintenance on the car. The car had a couple small problems when I got it, but it only took a weekend to bring it back.

 

Are those storage bens behind the seats?? Do all GTUss come with those cause I wish i had them in my 7.

 

Yep. Those are storage bins. Mine has them. Even has lights that come on when you open them.

 

Damn i want those cas I cant hide anything in my car. Has anybody ever put those in a 7 that doesnt have them??

 

What year/model car do you have? They are very simple to install. There are several ppl selling the bins on this forum as we speak.

 

umm. only 3 bids so far

AND IT's THE BLACK GTU-S PEOPLE!!!!

 

I want it... but I can't afford it... (somebody want to buy my ghetto accord so I can afford to get my current RX-7 on the road? )

 

Yo,


Wozzoom, good score!! I paid lots more for mine. Looks like in great shape, I'm glad you're having fun with it.

Your numbers might be a tad high for production, best guesses for 1989 is around 1000-1200, and for 1990 it's documented at 100 units.

I liked what you said about the ride in a GTUs, it's just a different beast from any other NA RX-7. I'm diggin' mine.


KS
1989 GTUs "Sunroof? We don't need no steenkin' sunroof!"

 

No mention of a 88 GTU but I seem to have bought one and it is sitting in my front yard right now so they must exist.....I paid for mine a little more than the average joe but the engine only has 2K miles on it.....Working on the body right now and adding some mods this winter...

- D

 

Exact production numbers are one thing that I've never been able to find any information on. I've heard serveral people say about 2500 GTUs cars, but that might have included Canadian cars as well. However, nobody has ever been able to nail down how many 10th AE's and GTUs were actually brought to the states.

 

GTU is a regular model
GTUs's were special

GTUs's were only 89-90
1000 in '89
100 in '90 (unclaimed by mazda but they exist)


Your's is just a regular N/A model, normal tranny, normal rear end, etc etc.
the "s" makes it cool

 

Wrong... the GTU in 1988 was a "special" model, (created to commemorate Mazda's class wins) in 1989 it became the GTUs, and the GTU was the base model. An 88 GTU IS a special car... but not as much so as the 1989-1990 GTUs.

Brad