Bought my car last summer with 40,500 mils and it now has 41,100 miles. The important thing is that the car sat for 5 years with little driving. The original owner was an elementary school teacher, female. Most of the rubber under the hood and in the suspension was and will be replaced. Rubber does not age well. The water pump was replaced as was a leaking strut.

The FD needs constant attention to run well. I know that the only FD to buy is one thats been taken care of and the owner has been willing to spend the money to keep it right. If not, forget it or offer $8K.

 

Personally, I've never met this guy, but from what I've "heard", he's a mechanic at one of the Mazda dealerships here in the San Francisco Bay Area. He does work on the side in his home garage, "Ivan's Auto Palace"(?). Guy's big w/ some of the local rotary members.

 

My FD only has 467 miles,..............................before it hits 138K

 

My 94 FD has 24k miles. It replaced a 94 FD with 48k miles. :0

 

93 touring with 28k miles.

 

Congratulations guys...you've all just signed up and identified yourself for the "I own an RX7 but drive like a wuss" thread

 

My girlfriends next door neigbor has an FB with less than 60,000 on the clock. Looks great and it for sale too......

 

DP

 

I got my 1993 VR R1 with 17,756 miles on it last March, almost a year later is has 26,995 on it. Those last few miles of every 1k always brings a tear..

 

Envy is such a waste of time.

 

Word? Mind PMing me any additional info?

 

First of all, I wasn't being serious. Hence the face. Maybe I needed to make it larger for you?

Second, no envy at all. I don't see the difference between driving a car 200 miles a year and having a trailor queen. I bought the car to enjoy it, which means beating the crap outta it. It's supposed to be the return of the pure sportscar, a hardcore road course racer, not an icon in your living room or driveway. At least that's my take on it...to each his own. So plz, get off your high horse...

 

I think there was an FD on Ebay a few months back that had like less than 1000 miles.

 

The silver automatic one? It has an extensive and very nice layout to it, with tons of articles about the third gen. A lot of people admired the time the seller put into the site.

 

93 - touring - 30,005 - original miles. hate to drive it but i can't resist..

 

If I'm right, you have a very clean low mileage car Speed King. I think I've driven it once. Is there a very small depression in the dash board?

 

I bought mine in '99 with 34.5k miles... 6 years later it has gained about 21k miles.... about 3.5k of those miles were back and forth to track events, and another 1k track miles...

and about 3 miles broken out into 12 quarter mile increments...

not that low... but I'm enjoying every mile I get out of it...

 

I've got a '93 R1 (build of 4 or 5/92, I don't remember) with about 12,500. I don't take it out for 3 or 5 mile runs. The car goes out for typically 80 to 100 miles at a time and hitting a slow 120 mph would be in the small minority of runs.
Back when the car was almost new I figured I'd drive it to work once. Afterall, why not drive it I figured. Well, screw that- sitting in traffic, driving behind trucks spewing rocks back at me, and looking at the car through the office window throughout the day, anticipating getting the hell outta there, I knew this wasn't the right element for a "pure" sports car. It's never been on a track, but when you've got long, winding country roads to yourself most of the time screw driving on the pothole-ridden, strictly speed-enforced streets for the masses.

 

MisterX, as I said in a earlier post, I was kidding. It's awesome that you guys have low mileage FDs. But yes, I don't think it's right to keep an FD w/ like 200 miles on the clock...it's a waste of one of the greatest sportscars.

I know what you mean about it just not being right using it to drive in traffic and what not. I tried that the first year I got the car (w/ about 68K on the clock), put about 8K miles on it that year, then only about 8K miles in the next year and a half, only for pleasure cruises and long drives to shows and events. So yea I'm totally w/ you...leave her at home for the daily stuff, but when you do take her out, make it worthwhile

 

mine is a '93 touring...i just ordered my intake, exhaust. it had 27,xxx when i bought it. now has 33,xxx. dd and lovein it...lol

 

1993 VR R1 with 23K.....savoring each mile. Think I've put about 1,000 on it in about 3 years.
Wouldn't mind having another "non-garage queen".....but it's an endangered species so I'll treat the R1 accordingly and make the 626 the work-horse.

 

Otay, it's all good man. :-) And dude, just call me "X"....."Mr." makes me feel old.

 

Mine has almost 200k miles.

Oh, wait...you said low mileage.

Bought it with 90k 5 years ago, about 100k by me in that time.

Daily driven and loving it. Turbos lasted that whole time with one rebuild

 

Correct on the former, negative on the latter. There is no dent on my dashboard, and I don't think we've ever met.

BTW, your silver car w/ the V-Mount, BBS', etc. is VERY nice.

 

I would like to see if the odometer resets itself back to 0. So would that mean after 999,999 miles, it'll go back to 0?