Attention '95 owners (the last US FD)
08-02-08, 02:08 PM
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I agree 100% Gordon..... though, (to add) I believe the main cause of the "down fall" of the FD in the states was, incompetence and ignorance on the part of dealerships nation wide. Proper education and training was never accomplished thoroughly on the part of mazda/ford international.
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although to be fair, if you didnt live in an area where FD's sold, do you expect a truck mechanic to fix the turbo system on a car he's only seen a pitcher of once?
those are the kind of tech who can find a vacuum leak on a chevy, but cant on a rotary.
08-03-08, 08:00 PM
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The car easily met the emission standards of the time. Massachusetts has the same standards as California and my car came in well under the limits at the smog test station.
The cost involved was putting in the OBD II system itself. One published report said it would have cost Mazda 5 million dollars to develop the software programming and the minor amount of hardware needed to put an OBD II system in the FD. That's not a big deal when you're selling 25,000 626's. But with only 500 '95 RX-7's selling slowly it added quite a bit to the cost.
Still, manufacturers are often willing to take losses on cars that are image leaders. When Ford took over Mazda one executive was quoted as saying they lost money on the 3rd Gen. And Ford reportedly lost money on every Ford GT sold.
But they figured the image building for the brand was worth it.
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Still, manufacturers are often willing to take losses on cars that are image leaders. When Ford took over Mazda one executive was quoted as saying they lost money on the 3rd Gen. And Ford reportedly lost money on every Ford GT sold.
But they figured the image building for the brand was worth it.
Still, manufacturers are often willing to take losses on cars that are image leaders. When Ford took over Mazda one executive was quoted as saying they lost money on the 3rd Gen. And Ford reportedly lost money on every Ford GT sold.
But they figured the image building for the brand was worth it.
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