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Ha! I just finished reading all those articles, and laughed by head off when I got to this bit in R&T's review of the 88 Turbo:
...and for some reason, Mazda hasn't been able to get consistant, uniform quality on it's turbo models. Our test car, with only 1300 miles on it, had a clunky driveline, emphasised by the poor low-end flexibility that made it hard to drive smoothly until one learned the trick of feathering the clutch and accelerator pedals. I've given up trying to totally eliminate the bad on/off throttle transition the TPS causes. Even if you get it set right, it never lasts long. The clutch feathering trick is second nature now... :( |
To nitpick:
No, these engines were a version of the FD RX-7's twin-turbo 13B. See a trend? 12AT is in Luce before it's available in the RX-7. FI 13B 6-port is in Luce before it's available in the (US only) RX-7. 13B Turbo is in the Luce before it's in the RX-7. 13B twin turbo is in the Cosmo before it's in the RX-7. Mazda is probably doing final testing of their latest designs in the low-abuse, lower-sales luxury car line before they'll use it in the higher-selling, high-abuse RX-7. This is only good business - no matter how much you test a new design, it's still a new design. (Ford for example has always done this with their engines - they are used in cars first for a few years before they put them in their trucks. Ford after all is and always has been a truck company that also sells cars, not the other way around) Fast forward to 2003. Mazda uses the as-yet-undesignated new design engine in the RX-8, first.... |
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