I don't know what they had at the event. I was just referring to the
fact that the vast majority of 6s were built with 4cyl and automatic,
which no one seems to want. Mazda is marketing to a specialty niche
of sporty car fanatics, and they know it. I can understand not making
lots of 6cyl cars, on the philosophy that a lighter car is a better
handling car, but I can't understand building so few with stick shift.
The result is that dealer inventories are clogged with automatic 4
cylinder versions of the 6, and they're not selling. I think that's
at least part of the reason for the Rev It Up promotion.
PS, I believe that Andy has the Mazdaspeed/MPS Protege, not the 6.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:25:10AM -0800, Pat Kelly wrote:
> Some had 5-speeds, and were available on the drive line portion of the
> event. I felt they were much more responsive.
> --Pat Kelly
>
> ----------
> >From: "John J. Stimson-III" <john@harlie.idsfa.net>
> >To: "John F. Kelly Jr." <76067.1750@compuserve.com>
> >Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net, Bryan Heitkotter <bryan64@earthlink.net>
> >Subject: Re: !!! noel esporo (unofficially) wins Mazda Rev it Up !!!!
> >Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2003, 9:34 AM
> >
>
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:12:33AM -0500, John F. Kelly Jr. wrote:
> >> -------------------- Begin Original Message --------------------
> >>
> >> Message text written by "Bryan Heitkotter"
> >>
> >> "I suggested next year they supply us with something RWD. ;)
> >> "
> >>
> >>
> >> -------------------- End Original Message --------------------
> >>
> >> The object was to SELL the Mazda 6, fwd and all.
> >
> > Maybe Bryan was subtly hinting that Mazda should hold a similar event
> > for the RX-8. Or maybe he was just passing his preferences on to the
> > marketing people at Mazda in the hopes that they would design more
> > cars with RWD.
> >
> > Sorry Bryan, I think the RX-8 is going to sell well enough that Mazda
> > won't need to hold a special event to get them off the dealer lots.
> > Assuming they don't build them all with automatics, like they did with
> > the 6...
> >
> > --
> >
> > john@idsfa.net John Stimson
> > http://www.idsfa.net/~john/ HMC Physics '94
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