There are quite a few threads discussing whether our cars have finished production, are they on the boats, how many boats are there, how many cars etc.

I though it would be a good idea to have a sticky where the latest information (rumour/speculation) can be posted so people don't have to trawl too much to find out what we know.

I will be quite ruthless editing this thread to keep it on topic. General bitching about Mazda will therefore have to go elsewhere ;)

Other 'delivery' threads will also be closed.

If this is getting a bit authoritarian, just PM me. I am a bleedin heart liberal after all......

If someone would like to summarise the story so far.............

OK - Here goes...

Mazda promis 240ps cars in July.

last 'promis' was production on 28th July to 20th Aug, shipping soon after. Delivery 'late' October/November. I remember someone saying ALL preorders of Hi-power 1st wave colours get their cars in November.

Currently we have no idea if cars are anywhere near a ship, or there on two.

Ordering now gets you one in either December or March, depending on who you ask.

Cars are still officialy 231ps, and Auz cars are stil officialy 240ps, until someone dyno's them.

The last official communication letter I have from Jeremy Thomson states cars will reach our shores during mid October.

These are excerpts from emails received directly from Mazda, so can be considered factual at the date fo writing I guess:

12/8/03

"The first cars are the dealer cars and these will be on the water on the 20th - the next production month (1,000 cars) will be on the water roughly a month after"

"at present we have scheduled production in such a way that all
our pre-orders are produced in the order we asked for - high power first, low power next along with blue, yellow etc. This ensures we will get cars to preorder customers first and will have no unallocated stock from the first 2-3 months production lying around."

Delviery dates have now been allocated - however we can only indiciate month and have been cautious with the dates so we allow ourselves some slack - once we have communicated these dates we can then follow up with a more precise date once the car is on the water"

28/7/03

"We won't be able to give customers the precise date of their
cars delivery but we will be able to indicate delivery month as we can determine this from the production month. The most important thing then is the ready to ship date - once we have this we can give a more accurate indication of delivery date into the UK. Therefore we will inform customers initially of their delivery month and then once we have further more precise info we can then pass this onto customers. By following this process we intend to ensure the most efficient distribution and delivery of vehicles to dealers and customers. Any orders ongoing will
also be on a sold order basis only so we will hopefully not have any stock lying about on dealers forecourts"

There are a lot more going back in time but there is no point me digging out old emails any more.

okay just contacted Mazda again and tried the nicey nicey approach.

You are going to be VERY disappointed guys.

DONT expect your car until Mid November at the earliest (very earliest)

They are still making the cars at the moment. US / JAP production over ran by 3 weeks. In some cases our cars are still either on the animals still (leather) or/and as molten steel.


31st October is the earliest the ships will land in the UK. (obviously this is going vary when it comes nearer).

This is why we havent recieved anything from then because its all bad news once again and Mazda dont like bad news.

The story of the UK following in the footsteps of the US is not going to happen she said all cars will be allocated. The ship will be transporting the european allocation not just the UK ( the feeling i had was its a single ship not 2)

OK: I phoned the helpline and was told that delivery of the first cars will take place in late October as expected. They are sending out letters next week to say that this is so but they claim to know nothing about the promised information about a definite month of delivery for individual cars. If any of this is true then we've been screwed again and they've not learnt a damned thing from the last protest that we made. I'm hopping mad!

OK, I've done what I said I'd do and pruned non-information posts from this thread. I know we all have a lot to say right now, quite justifiably, about mazda but this thread isn't the place to do it.

Try looking here ;)

http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9806

I can't move individual posts, so I just deleted them.

Hi All - Well this is my first post so hope it works OK

My dealer says that they are picking up their demo car at Silverstone on 27/10 and that I will have my car around this date :D

Print should be with us in second week of September.

No compensation from Mazda UK is being offered :mad:

No test drives either :(

Anyone know of a dealer down south with cars to drive?

"Dear Mr Dickinson

Thank you for your e-mail dated 28th August 2003.

With regard to the delivery date for your Mazda RX-8, you (and other
pre-order customers) will be receiving a letter within the next 48
hours
giving more specific delivery information. I am unsure where you got
the information
that production for UK vehicles is 3 weeks late as this is not the
case.

With regard to the situation in the USA regarding the advertised power
output of the Mazda RX-8, this situation does not apply in the UK as
the
advertising and marketing of this model is vastly different from the
UK.
The top RX-8 model for the UK has been homologated at 231ps (at the
flywheel).

As you a senior members of the RX-8 Forum I am sure that this reply
will
be posted on the website in order that other members are aware of the
situation.

Yours sincerely

Chris Twine
Customer Assistance Manager
Mazda Motors UK Limited
"

Just to update you all,

I spoke to Mazda Uk again yesterday, they assured me that all
pre order cars have left japan (true or not who knows). We shall
expect delivery end of october early november. I think we should contact somebody like watchdog - regarding compensation - then we will see if Mazda take any notice of us frustrated buyers. What do you all think?

Latest from Southampton Mazda this morning is that my friends car is on the 'second ship' arriving first week of November (slow ship!!!).

I have BAD news. My dealer has just informed me that NO ships have left Japan.:(


I don't know what to believe anymore.


AnilS.

Believe NO ONE

Trust NO ONE

Keep your tin hat on and be prepared for the worst!!!

Sound Advice?

Cheers
Oilman

this is not good news, I am going to see my local Honda dealer I think. at least I am guranteed a S2000 when I order one. You will be the DEATH of me Mazda.

calm down, calm down!


Dealers , I'm sure know jack.

I'm sure Chris Twine knows more about whats going on than the dealers. Lets wait for these letters to turn up before we blow any fuzes.

Here Here Rob.

This letter's very important to all of us.

Cheers
Oilman

My letter has just arrived and the important points are:

Initial date for delivery: November
"We'll give you more precise timing in september ONCE WE KNOW THAT YOUR CAR HAS BEEN SHIPPED FROM JAPAN"
I qualify for the prodrive day; they'll send more details on this once car is registered

Date ordered: 1st July
Colour: Velocity Red
Seats: Red leather
No sun roof
Sat Nav
231ps
RX8-210200

Here's the letter

wow - the letter arrived before the end of the month (just!)

The only piece of info worth noting - November

I'm guessing not but has anyone got anything different (any Octobers??)

I've had the letter: Delivery DECEMBER

Date ordered: 4th March
Colour: Velocity Red
Seats: Red Leather
192ps
RX8-200204

Dissapointed but not suprised that I have to wait until December.

I would have thought an explanation and apology for another delay would have been forthcoming.

Oh well I have the test drive to look forward to today.

Topic.

OK, let's try to make sense of this.

EP407, High Power, Black, Leather, Sunroof, November.


I thinkk that if we compile this list we may see some patterns.

:eek:

GOT MY LETTER! AUGUST JUST.............

Mine says NOVEMBER! (Hope there are none earlier)

What surprises me more than anything is............

THERE'S NO APOLOGY ETC FOR THE FURTHER DELAY!!

We've gone from July to September to October to November and no apology.................... DISGUSTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DISGUSTED, DISGUSTED, DISGUSTED....

Cheers
Oilman

Originally posted by Topic
I've had the letter: Delivery DECEMBER

Date ordered: 4th March
Colour: Velocity Red
Seats: Red Leather
192ps
RX8-200204


I'm suprised your December as I'm November with RX8-200238

His is a low power car - they were always going to be later.

By the way - EP91 - November. Ordered Jan2003. grrrr...

Similar story, Hi Power, red leather, delivery December, ordered January, EP46.:eek:

Ooops, I meant November delivery. December would not surprise me tho' !

Letter arrived yesterday (Sat 30th) and it of course promted me to ring the only telephone number we know. The fairly long suffering girl at the other end told me that they had not known the letter was going out until Fri 29th and had not been given any further details. No ideas about why there are further delays, no idea why website still promisses delivery in July.

Anyway - seems we are not the only ones in the dark, and for me, the letter was a very poor effort to explain what is going on.

PS - although interests rates aint great - how much money have they made from sitting on all those deposits?

Assuming 1000 pre-orders, @ 4% thats 40k. Not a huge amount of money...

A point to note is that mine is also November WITH a sat nav setup. So the theory that sat nav cars are behind others appears to be sunk (unlike the cars I hope!)

Stu C

Got my letter today, mine will be a November delivery.

Velocity Red
High Power
No Sun Roof
red/black leather.

Really wanted car while still summer but it's giving me more time to sell the M3:D

Hey Lucozade, add your details to the EP register post.

Cheers.:)

Just found you guys. Got my letter the other day. November :mad:

Mine arrives "week 44 with advance" probably week 42 or 43...

I am impatient!

just got back from my dealership,

they advise theat ship is not underway and production is not yet complete.

Believes that 1st shipment will be mostly black and silver, he claims that delivery of red has been delayed for some unknown reason.

so still suggesting Nov (late?) delivery for my black hi power pre-order.
(although thinks that on the lastest updates mazda are trying to be conservative (???))

on the plus side he belives that they will have a high power model availaible for me to test drive in about 2 weeks, but he'll be in touch to comfirm.

claims all the dealers there got to drive it at the wales launch and were all highly impressed.

Well done for getting hold of some news, even though its not good news and we hope it is rumour on the part of your dealer.
I 've got a vague recollection of someone mentioning, some time ago that there were problems with the supplier of red paint going bust and them struggling to get supply from elsewhere. Surprisingly I hadnt heard anything since so I put it down to more rumour and hearsay. What you are saying actually backs it up.
Bad news for Reds (Oilman?) but I am meeting my dealer and a red 192 this weekend so I'll see what I can find out then, if anything.
And good luck to the Scots in the qualifier today, KEF.

JH

good luck with your dealer, hope that the red rumor turns out to be nothing more than that.

sorry I didn't get more information, i'm particularly crap at dealing with salesman,

He did come across as fairly well informed, they claim that they are one of the largest dealers in the UK shifting 1000 mazda units a year, in which case I would think their manufacturer contacts should be fairly good.

scotland made it 3-1,
england made it 2-1 (and treated me to one of the funniest last 5 minutes of any recent game)
so come on the welsh, lets make it a UK hat trick (sorry ireland, better luck next game)

Originally posted by KEF
Believes that 1st shipment will be mostly black and silver, he claims that delivery of red has been delayed for some unknown reason.

This had better not be true. On top of everything else, that would just be too much. :(

There has been no problems with the Red cars in the US or Asian markets, so I dont see why it would be the case. That said, if its not true, then it is particularly poor for dealers to spread rumours like that.

There's been a lot of talk of "orange peel" paintwork on the red cars ... maybe that's why there's a problem

So glad I have gone for black - tried and tested ;-)

This makes me quite angry.

In Mazda's email to Anils they state that 'rumours are being fuelled by the forum' and that 'they have no idea where these rumours are coming from'.

Well Mazda UK these rumors are started by information provided by the Order help line, and your dealers! Is it any wonder that we get all wound up when you tell us the ship has left, then a few days later one of your representatives tells us the boat hasn't left and don't expect to see your cars till the very end of November!!!!

Almost all of the negative rumors on this forum have originated from information supplied by a Mazda representative to a customer.

If anyone has Deby G's email could someone please post an email to her detailing this most recent communication cock up! Could they also ask them to better control their dealers and help line staff speculation. Or if they are telling dealers one thing and keeping us in the dark, to start coming clean with us!

Yours, Very Annoyed.:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Carl.

I have to admit .. having read the news about the ship not having left, production still underway and a problem with the red cars ... I got very close to cancelling.

With so much dis-information on here and from Mazda it's hard to know what to think!!

Please, please Mazda ... get your act together. I've had two great cars from you in the past, but it's getting awfully tempting to just pop into a showroom and buy a TT, a VX220, perhaps even a boxster.

seeing the reaction I've generated here I' deeply embarrassed that I didn't press the issue further with my dealer.

FOR THE RECORD I WOULD NOTE THAT THE GUY I SPOKE TO WAS NOT THE DEALERSHIP RX-8 SPECIALIST.

he did appear to be fairly knowledgable, perhaps if I'd mentioned that i would be immediately posting his every word he might have been more reticent to comment.

I would hate to be responsible for generating duff info, so I would say to everyone calm down and wait to see what Jon H finds out. (to be honest I now regret posting the dealers comments)

Sorry Kef, not getting at your dealer that much, and not getting at you.:( Just annoyed that mazda cant keep all parties up to date with the same info!

It's the constant 'left hand don't know what right hand is doing' stuff.

I have a lot of sympathy for the dealers as on the whole we seem to have more information than they do. I know mine seems to do his best but he appears to have his hands tied.

I would just like to ensure all representatives have the same level of up to date info.

Originally posted by Titanium Grey
This makes me quite angry.

If anyone has Deby G's email could someone please post an email to her detailing this most recent communication cock up! Could they also ask them to better control their dealers and help line staff speculation. Or if they are telling dealers one thing and keeping us in the dark, to start coming clean with us!

Yours, Very Annoyed.:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Carl.

Done. Email sent this morning.

KEF - Dont hold you responsible m8, you only posted what you were told. It annoys me greatly too when dealers spout off information to customers like this.

I dont beleive it to be true, but Ive asked the question anyway to be clear one way or the other.

OK, Just come back from Coventry Mazda where I was kicking the tyres of a Tit Grey 192 (more later).

Mentioned the rumours to my dealer, he said he was confident that the November deliveries would be achieved, even with the red cars. There was a Red buyer there and she wasnt aware of any new delays.
So either he hadnt been told anything or he wasnt letting on.

I cannot criticise you for your posting KEF, after all this is a forum for sharing info, all info be it good news, bad news, rumour, lies or sexed up. If no-one shared what they had been told then we would have nothing to talk about and we would be making stuff up instead.

By the way the car looked fantastic, it was a static demo so no test drive (although I am sure if it would have swung a deal then arrangements might have been made...). They did start it up but didnt give it any welly (it was inside the showroom) and sounded, well, different. Was impressed by the build quality and the interior, and the detailing inside and out. Looks like the ashtray is a weak link though as it had been broken by some journalist.
Looks cool in Tit Grey but still think black will be better, if harder to keep clean!
JH

:( okay fingers crossed, I'd rather be wrong that the bearer of bad news.

I think that in view of the ruckus i'm gonna treat all furture info with a pinch of salt.

perhaps we'd all be better off in the dark, imagine the surprise when your dealer calls to tell you not only have they reached the country in november, but that you car is actually at the garage waiting to be collected.

Guys, here is the emailed response from Mazda, no problems at all and nothing to worry about (Thanks Deby :) ).....

"I'm pleased to tell you the information stated below is not true.

We have vehicles on the water and are making their way to UK soil as I type.

There is no issue with red paint.

The only thing I can suggest is that if any of the forum members receive information and wish to have it confirmed or denied, come to myself, Michael Davey or Chris Twine. This is the only way that we can control the information you receive.

We do endeavour to keep our dealers and call centre briefed, however, cannot be party to all conversations had about the RX-8, and cannot control the way they are relayed or indeed the way they are interpreted."

Cheers, Mark.

Pass on our thanks to Deby for clearing up this latest rumor so quickly. (Rereading your post I see you already have, well thanks to you Deby from me as well.:))

I suggest we start a new thread called 'Rumor Control' where people can post things they would like clarified by Mazda UK.
Those who have contacts with Mazda could then use them to get answers to these questions, or Mazda UK could keep tabs on this thread and answer themselves via one of the same contacts.

Thoughts?

Mark / Titanium Grey,

Excellent news. I think the rumor control thread is a good one. Here's a question for that thread: "Whose cars are on the boat?".

Thanks again Mark and thanks Deby for clearing it up.

Cheers
Oilman

Ok - a boat is on the water carrying some cars ....
but ....

that's not a lot of new news .....

Which boat? When did it leave? Who's cars are on it etc?

No new news ... sorry not satisfied

And you can strike Michael Davey off the list of epople to speak to - he no longer replies to emails or phone calls. Last thing he told me was that I would DEFINATELY get my car in Spetember....

Never mind this boat

I want to know about the next boat:D

Has second UK production started?

Originally posted by mr_digital_uk
Ok - a boat is on the water carrying some cars ....
but ....

that's not a lot of new news .....

Which boat? When did it leave? Who's cars are on it etc?

No new news ... sorry not satisfied

The letter showing our delivery month that I recieved dated late August, stated that 900+ cars had already left bound for the UK.

Therefore, the boat left during August and has 900+ cars on it. That's good enough for me as I will be in that 900.

I can understand for people who ordered later and might not be in the 900 then this is not much use, but then again they havent all been waiting since January or earlier.

For info, I have asked if they can give us any shipping details, but I wouldnt really expect this to be public information and as yet have had no reply.

Cheers
Mark

thanks for clearing that up mark.

as for rumor control, good idea, but in a perfect world mazda would keep their dealers fully up to speed, in which case we wouldn't be having these discussions in the first place.

ah, if only for that perfect world.

(I seem to remember them accusing the forum members of generating these false rumors, well now that it's happened to me it's clearly a problem in their own house. I'll accept a charge of fueling 'rumors' but that's their lot.)

Excellent news everyone.

Does anyone know where this boat is likely to land in the UK?.

Sad I known but I'd love to go along and welcome all the 8's to Britain.:D

All Mazda shipping deliveries land at Sheerness, Kent, they have their own vehicle processing centre there at a place called Neat's Court.

Sheerness or Timbuctu - I don't care as long as I get the car before 2004 !!

what is the latest on deliveries?


i got a letter dated 30th August, stating delivery was November.


Anyone else got a similar letter?


since ive been also out of the country in the Caribbean for my hols anyone care to shed any light

Wondered where you had got to....

Yep - we all got the same letter. Everyone says november. No other news I am afraid.

End of the month should be good - we should get our dates and the prices for accessories.

Oh , and there is a really crappy print waiting for you at our dealer I think. I have not picked mine up yet , and they have not bothered to call me to say it is there.

Many people having test drives (some more than one) and most test drives are being given to those who have not yet even ordered ! Again , our dealer has not contacted me at all....

So - business as usual !

Hi All,

Just joined this forum trying to get some more information than from my dealer. They cannot tell anything.
Yesterday I called Mazda Holland to find out if my car would arrive this year. I ordered a RX8 LP - Titanium - with Bose stereo and DVD navigation on the 22th March this year. First one in my country.
Mazda told me that my RX8 was expected to arrive in Antwerpen somewhere around the end of October, beginning of November and it would take then approx two weeks to get it ready to drive in.
But reading all your mail I wonder if that could be true.
In Holland we did not get any RX8ths to look at or to drive in. We have to do with pictures (and the Internet).
I am also very keen on buying extra's for my RX8, but again, there is no information at all. Rest my case.

Kind regards,

Eric

No news for Sweden either..

All I got was " All cars that we get are sold.. but we don't know when we get them"

Is this the beginngin of troubles for Mazda??
It looks like Europe is getting "leftovers" when the US and Japan got their cars...

// Magnus

OK Guys,

I received the following email today as an update from Mazda:

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tomorrow we should be able to send you a copy of the finalised price list for accessories on a PDF - we have managed to drop some prices in certain cases and in others we have not. Unfortunately in the short to mid term we will be unable to offer any of these as packs - however this maybe something you can discuss with your dealer. In the post this week and next pre-order customers will be sent the final brochure as we are starting to receive these from the printers. Following this up wil be the full accessories brochure which should be with you in the next couple of weeks.

In regards to delivery dates boats are well and truly on the water and we are loading pre-order records into our dealer stock system so when we allocate a car/vin to a customer and dealer this will then be visible on the dealers system. The dealers should be able to start to see these cars (in batches) - latest this will happen is week commencing 29th September but at this time they won't be able to see all cars as we are dependant on the factory releasing VINS.

Unfortunately if you ask me where your car is for example we can't tell you until we complete the exercise above.
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Cheers
Mark

Good news thanks Mark.

See all it takes is an e-mail containing information & we're all happy again!!

Imagine "the love on the Forum" when the cars get here!!!

following on from Mark's email, my dealer confirms that Morgan and i are in the first batch due in November. Not sure however how they work out who gets theres first because EP numbers dont exist anymore and had disappeared long ago. Would suspect though from Mazda anyone with an EP particularly a low number will be in the first batch.

As I am a common Dutch guy, I wonder about a few things.
The VIN number of a car, I suppose that must be Vehicle Identification Number. Is that correct?
I know there are a lot of you who know that number and can therfore track their car as it is shipped. There are probally a lot of you in the UK, which is a more important export country for Mazda than the Netherlands. It seems to be that I am on my own here.
Could anybody plaese tell me what it takes to get to know a little bit more about my pre-orederd RX8. I would very appreciate a little help.

Eric

Eric,


you are right when you say the VIN number is the identification number but as yet no one in the UK has theres to be able to track where there car is.

In terms of the Netherlands i havent a clue unfortunately all i can say is speak to Mazda but probably you will be as much in the dark with them as we are with Mazda UK.
If it wasnt for Mark and a few others we wouldnt be any the wiser either.

Just as an update, I have just recieved a letter from Mr Thompson, responding to my complaint letter that I sent a week or two ago.

A very polite letter which suggests that they understand our frustration, and are doing everything that they can to get us behind the wheel as soon as possible.

No delivery date promised, so no help with loan car.

Still their intention to start delivering cars in OCctober, but since they cannot be specific as to who will get their cars in October, they have prefered to be pesemistic and say November.

Shortly loading the first batch of vehicle info into the delers databases.

Just got off the phone to my local friendly Mazda dealer and here's a summary of what he told me (while its still fresh in my memory):

Me: Hi, any update on when I will be getting my car, only according to the web forum Mazda have started updating the dealer delivery network with this information.

Mazda: Well, I checked this morning and our showroom car is listed on the system - but no exact dates for any of our customers as yet. You are still listed as November - which I assume means you will get one of the first ones on the first ship.

Me: When are you getting the showroom car?

Mazda: Well, the date on the system is the 14th Oct. But we have arranged with Mazda to collect it from Silverstone on the 27th Oct. Most dealers have a showroom and demonstrator car ordered (as have we) and we expect to get both on the 27th Oct, although the demo is still not being listed on the system as yet. We are expecting to take the first deliveries on the car transporter from Mazda starting that week and to get the first ones out to customers asap.

Me: Okay, so hopefully the first week in November does sound promising.

Mazda: Yes, although I don't know if the cars will arrive at the dealership in the same order as customers ordered. We shall be processing cars for customers in first off the transporter order. We have been told by MAzda that the PDI is quite extensive and will tie up a mechanic for the best part of a day. So, it may take a few days to get all of the cars prept and ready to take away.

Me: When should I think about ordering any accessories?

Mazda: Not just yet. Wait until you come back off Holiday and order them mid-oct. It's too early for us yet as while Mazda may have published a price list the computer system doesn't allow us to order them yet.

Me: Will you be able to quote me prices without fitting?

Mazda: Yes we can sort something out with you if you want to fit some of the parts yourself.

Me: Do you have my framed print by the way?

Mazda: Yes, have you seen it?

Me: Yes :( - I'll pop in tomorrow and collect it if thats okay. Cheers!

nice to know they're taking the PDI seriously, although if it's a full day it could have a fair knock on for dealers with a large number of pre-orders.

Originally posted by KEF
nice to know they're taking the PDI seriously, although if it's a full day it could have a fair knock on for dealers with a large number of pre-orders.

I thought that. Anyone seen any posts on how long a typical PDI takes for the RX8?

I sent an email on Thursay asking if they had any news, as Im going away for a week today.

Ive had no reply, so assume no good news :( . Hopefully there will be a letter waiting for me when I get back next weekend.

Dear All,

I just hung up the phone, talking to Mazda Holland.
I called them about my pre-ordered RX8.

The news they brought me after calling me back was something to get quiet of. Delivery date will probaly be end of December this year or early January 2004. In that last case I have been waiting for almost a year.

I will put on my hardtop on my MX5 for a couple of month's and try to keep patient.

Kind regards to all of you waiting and waiting and waiting and .....

Eric

Originally posted by Eric
Dear All,

I just hung up the phone, talking to Mazda Holland.
I called them about my pre-ordered RX8.

The news they brought me after calling me back was something to get quiet of. Delivery date will probaly be end of December this year or early January 2004. In that last case I have been waiting for almost a year.

I will put on my hardtop on my MX5 for a couple of month's and try to keep patient.

Kind regards to all of you waiting and waiting and waiting and .....

Eric

It's very important to tell us when you ordered your car. If it was before August then this is not good. Also: High or standard power engine please?

Quote:
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It's very important to tell us when you ordered your car. If it was before August then this is not good. Also: High or standard power engine please?
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I ordered my car, Titanium LP with options, in March 2003

Eric

It's OK Eric, those dates match what we have been told about the delivery of the Low Power cars here.

High power only will be arriving in November, with Lo Power cars arriving in December and January.

Given the current state - I think that any date is give or take a month

Just phoned Mazda.

Aparently cars are here '31 october' lol.

But we get a delivery date letter NEXT week.

Shall have a very angry phonecall if it doesnt turn up, wife is getting more than slightly agitaded by Mazdas customer service - worryingly this is before they've got our cash, what r they like after?

Is that "here" at the port or the dealer?

Originally posted by Glynnb
Is that "here" at the port or the dealer?

Who knows?

I've phoned the dealer AND my mazda garage, I must have got 4 different stories in the space of 5min.

We know the cars are arriving via numerous ships, and the bulk of the (preorder)cars will be inthe country by the end of october.

Dealers will be picking their cars (1demo, 1 showroom?) 27th Oct at silverstone.

I assume our cars will arrive after that at the dealers. probably the end of oct/first week or two of november.

It takes roughly a day for an engineer to prep the 8 for hand over, so when we get will depend on size of dealer, no of cars etc.

2nd or 3rd week in Nov I hope, would love earlier as I have 2 weekends away at end of oct/nov, would be nice to have for then.

Just got off the phone to my dealer and have the following information to impart.

The cars will be visible on the dealers computers on the 10th or 11th October. With chassis numbers etc, so accessories can then be ordered and allocated to the cars.

One person have been told by Mazda (I don't know if this is at their dealer or generally) that their car will be delivered on the 8th November.

All of the first 1000 cars (presumably excluding non launch colours and Low Powers) will be delivered in November.

Thats all for now.

Chris

Chris,

This follows with the info I received yesterday.I think the only reason I gort a verbal delivery time is because i pushed a key person at Mazda to find out for me.As mine is due to reach the dealer w/c 10th Nov the info you got sounds right.

Ed

Latest update..

Received an email from Mazda today stating the following:

a letter will be going out this week advising that the dealers systems are now having cars showing up with dates in the system - however they will not all show up at once and will take a week or so to complete as it will happen gradually.

Your dealer should be able to see a date in the system in due course (your's may already be there) and this should reflect delivery into the dealership.
However please bear in mind a pre-delivery inspection will need to take place and may mean that the car won't be available on that precise date.

I spoke to my dealer who has checked and confirmed that they should be seeing dates for cars later this week and have promised me a call as soon as they know.

Cheers

Mark

Thanks Mark.

Getting excited now!:D

Cheers
Oilman

1. So the fabled letters from Mazda weren't giving us a delivery date after all: they were just telling us that given time the dealer will give us a delivery date (which is very approximate as the port inspection hasn't been factored in...) hmmm.

2. I didn't know that one can have the English flag on a number plate. Nice.

Originally posted by Lensman
1. So the fabled letters from Mazda weren't giving us a delivery date after all: they were just telling us that given time the dealer will give us a delivery date (which is very approximate as the port inspection hasn't been factored in...) hmmm.

2. I didn't know that one can have the English flag on a number plate. Nice.

As long as I get a date soon (and its early Nov) Im happy :)

You can have what you like on your plate, depending on where you get them from.

I prefer the St Georges cross to the Union Jack any day.

Ah, the joy of PhotoShop:

Originally posted by MarkW


As long as I get a date soon (and its early Nov) Im happy :)

You can have what you like on your plate, depending on where you get them from.

I prefer the St Georges cross to the Union Jack any day.

I'd like it too but it would be the easiest was of ensuring that my car would be keyed or torched here in Wales!!

If/when I get a private plate it'll be the bare legal minimum width as described by DVLA.

11mil margin, 50mil for letters, 11mil gaps, 33mil gap between groups.

For "R6 TRY" works out to 338mil instead of the normal 520mil.

Just on the front mind...

Any thoughts about the low power delivery date? I know that we have been told December, but remembering it's holiday season i'm more than a little concerened that i won't have my car by Christmas day!

Does anyone know when the second ship should be departing/arriving?

I know that i can't handle any more bad news :(

Originally posted by Goose
Does anyone know when the second ship should be departing/arriving?


There is NO second /first ship. The cars will/are be coming on multiple ships, which travel Japan/UK/Europe all the time , with mixed payloads. Means there will be a steady stream of RX-8's instead of 2 or so huge deliveries.

Were still on track for delivery of Hi-power in november. Probably 2nd week onwards. So far this hasnt changed for ages. So I guess theres no change in lo-power delivery schedule either.

Thanks Rob,

I can feel my inner calm returning............:p

Yesterday i had a sit in a new A3, apart from the mpg being better, every other facet of that car was inferior to the 8. Made me glad i'd endured the wait!

Just spoke to my dealer -

They are expecting the cars to start showing on the computer this week with VIN numbers and expected week of delivery to the showroom.

They have assured me that as soon as that Tit-gray-high-power-cloth hits their computer , they will call me and let me know.

So - Hopefully by the end of the week.......


(nervous) - Good luck guys !

Morgan.

I too spoke to me dealer in Leeds today.

November 14th is a possible date. - Some cars are appearing - they get them on the 29th ??!! and may take 3-4 days to prep.

I then say 14th cos mine hasn't appeared yet!:confused:

okay ive got my VIN Number.

Dealership takes delivery of vehicle on the 16th November with me getting it a week later


Im the 3rd order on there books so i would suspect that everyone will be in or around that date who ordered eons ago.

Is your dealer sure that the 16th is the delivery date to them as mine is convinced that this is the date that the cars will arrive in port in the UK. Looking at the evidence of how many people have had the 16th as the date I think it makes more sense that a big shipment is arriving from Rotterdam at that date.

You then have to factor in the time to get them all on a transporter and PDI'd. I would have expected to see some slight variation in dates if the cars were arriving in the UK earlier than that date because I find it unlikely that all of the car transporters will be loaded and on the road to all arrive on the same day at various locations around the country. I find it even more unlikely that Mazda have done the logisitcs of this exercise to give the dealers a specific date for arrival at the dealership rather than in the country - I just about give them credit for the ability to predict when a couple of ships are arriving from Holland!

If it helps, my car was built on the 29th of Sept, and will arrive 05/12/2003, I am not sure if that is to port or the UK.

sorry, I should have said dealer instead of UK!!!!

We seem to have ended up with 2 sticky threads on delivery dates.

So I tossed a coin and the other thread won. This one is going to be closed.

Post here instead ->

http://www.rx8club.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11655