MarkW
07-07-2003, 12:32 PM
I emailed my contact at Mazda today, regarding which car will be at the dealer roadshows.
It must be the fact that Morgan is back that the mood has turned a little more positive :D
The reply is below with some interesting information....
The car at the Roadshows will be the Japanese one you saw at Canary Wharf. We have one other pre-prod now for the Press launch in N. Wales next week with the the other 19 coming in this week for the same purpose. These cars are booked out solid for the next 2-3 months with press.
The new pre-prod is going over to Top Gear this week (Velocity red high power with red leather interior) for some static use in the Studio but will not be driven. The only TV show that has driven it is Driven on C4 - we aren't sure when this is going to air at the moment - we'll let you know if we find out.
On another note we have had a lot of letters into the office from people on the forum who are unhappy with the delays, we are writing back to all of these customers at present and they should get a response this week. We are also finalising delivery dates and are aiming to get these out to customers by the end of the month. Production is on track to start on the 28th July. Which hopefully is some comfort, further to this no-one in Mazda UK will be getting an RX-8 till next year, not even the Managing Director - all cars are scheduled to go to dealer for their demos and then the balance to customers as quickly as we can get them off the boats. We have never envisaged these delays which some customers don't seem to appreciate or we wouldn't have launched the pre-order process as early as we did.
Cheers
Mark
It must be the fact that Morgan is back that the mood has turned a little more positive :D
The reply is below with some interesting information....
The car at the Roadshows will be the Japanese one you saw at Canary Wharf. We have one other pre-prod now for the Press launch in N. Wales next week with the the other 19 coming in this week for the same purpose. These cars are booked out solid for the next 2-3 months with press.
The new pre-prod is going over to Top Gear this week (Velocity red high power with red leather interior) for some static use in the Studio but will not be driven. The only TV show that has driven it is Driven on C4 - we aren't sure when this is going to air at the moment - we'll let you know if we find out.
On another note we have had a lot of letters into the office from people on the forum who are unhappy with the delays, we are writing back to all of these customers at present and they should get a response this week. We are also finalising delivery dates and are aiming to get these out to customers by the end of the month. Production is on track to start on the 28th July. Which hopefully is some comfort, further to this no-one in Mazda UK will be getting an RX-8 till next year, not even the Managing Director - all cars are scheduled to go to dealer for their demos and then the balance to customers as quickly as we can get them off the boats. We have never envisaged these delays which some customers don't seem to appreciate or we wouldn't have launched the pre-order process as early as we did.
Cheers
Mark