Buger
02-08-2003, 04:15 PM
The Mazda2 job#1 has come and gone, the Mazda RX-8 job #1 is coming next as I previously posted in the thread (http://www.rx8forum.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=18060#post18060). Getting excited yet? :D
"Mazda has been planning the rx-8 and mazda2 job#1 before fiscal year end (Mazda fiscal year 2002 ends march 31, 2003?).
The normally aspirated renesis and rx-8 will be produced at Mazda's Ujina plant I. (Ujina district is in Hiroshima)
Output from several sources is estimated at 5,000 units per month (60,000 per year). I believe this is higher than the first year 350z production because the practicality of the rx-8 makes it attractive to a larger market. At this production level, Wards says that the renesis will cost Mazda "slightly less than it would pay for a standard V-6 engine". The renesis uses much of the same tooling as previous rotaries to keep the price down.
Mazda is closing it's Fuchu (don't laugh) plant (also known as the F-plant) and is reopening the Ujina II plant in April. The F-plant has been underutilized and is used for mainly producing trucks for the Japanese commercial market. Mazda is trying to get out of that market and the assembly of the Titan, Titan Dash, Bongo Truck, and Bongo Brawny Truck (good name), will be shifted from the F Plant to Press Kogyo Co Ltd (Onomichi Plant in Hiroshima), a unit of truck maker Isuzu Motors Ltd, from next spring."
Brian
"Mazda has been planning the rx-8 and mazda2 job#1 before fiscal year end (Mazda fiscal year 2002 ends march 31, 2003?).
The normally aspirated renesis and rx-8 will be produced at Mazda's Ujina plant I. (Ujina district is in Hiroshima)
Output from several sources is estimated at 5,000 units per month (60,000 per year). I believe this is higher than the first year 350z production because the practicality of the rx-8 makes it attractive to a larger market. At this production level, Wards says that the renesis will cost Mazda "slightly less than it would pay for a standard V-6 engine". The renesis uses much of the same tooling as previous rotaries to keep the price down.
Mazda is closing it's Fuchu (don't laugh) plant (also known as the F-plant) and is reopening the Ujina II plant in April. The F-plant has been underutilized and is used for mainly producing trucks for the Japanese commercial market. Mazda is trying to get out of that market and the assembly of the Titan, Titan Dash, Bongo Truck, and Bongo Brawny Truck (good name), will be shifted from the F Plant to Press Kogyo Co Ltd (Onomichi Plant in Hiroshima), a unit of truck maker Isuzu Motors Ltd, from next spring."
Brian