pieter3d

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I sent an email to Mazdaspeed imploring them to bring out the elusive Mazdaspeed RX-8.

My email:
I received a reply two days later (I edited out his name just because I don't want to post people's names all over the internet):
So guys, please join me in telling Mazda what we want to see, and buy!

Mugatu

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they already know.

SayNoToPistons

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I want a new color.

mac11

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You take your fancy colors and go to hell. I want special badging!

mysql101

I want a new gray, maybe with a little bit of pink to make it stand out.

tajabaho1

lol, I want my "special wheels" which is so grippy and so huge that it does 0-60 in 3seconds, all on it's own, without a vehicle

kersh4w

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mazdaspeed@mazda.com

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or whats their email? a factory turbo kit might make a few angry, especially since many like mazsport have worked so hard, but hey.. i'd turbo it for christmas if i kept my warranty.

expo1

The reason there will not be any MazdaSpeed RX-8 can be found HERE
Instead of getting your friends to write letters / emails you sould get them to buy RX-8's

zoom44

you dont need to with hold the persons name. we have posted them here many times. some of them - like ashley inman- who were a geat help to us a few years ago have moved on. some lost their jobs in a cost cutting round.

kersh4w

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and thats why there should be a ms version. its their flagship car.

BigOLundh

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LOL - yes that would be great. On top of that I would also like a new Gray with Silver Pearl, a new Silver with Gray Pearl.

3 new color's in one year, oh and call it the Mazdaspeed RX8 Version8: Yellow Edition

expo1

Flagships don't pay the bills. What is the flagship of Toyota? What is their position in the auto business? Instead of making a $40,000 RX-8 that still will also not sell Mazda should try making a stripped version of the 8 that is 500Lbs lighter & have a package simillar to the MS-R Miatas and sell it for under $25,000. Then offer 'use at your own risk' upgrade packages similar to Chysler's Mopar Stage 1,2 & 3 kits. If the N/A RX-8 had an easy to mod reputation people would buy the regular ones, mod them and Mazda would see all these modded RX-8's around and build a MSpeed version cause they thought they were missing out.

Rems31

What's email?

kersh4w

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electronic mail. its how us users of the information superhighway and citizens of the 21st century communicate.

:P

(yes yes i know what you meant)

expo1

I thought is was the modern way to advertise Viagra, Hot Stocks and Mortgages.

RoXanneBlack8

ms8? let it go.

as a mazda employee im asked about it all the time....

please let it goooooooo

enforcer

...and the elctronic era certainly had an impact on purchasing Playboy magazines! lol2:

tajabaho1

its the modern way of trying to get ur bank account

dillsrotary

You emailing mazdaspeed is like me emailing Post cereal saying I want more raisins in my 2 scoops of raisin bran.

enforcer

Those percentages represent a huge drop, and unless the Mazda does something soon it will impact on the bottom line....

mac11

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I would be willing to bet - as inept at the business end of the business as mazda has proved to be in past - that even they understood and made the appropriate plans for these type of sales when they were producing/selling 50,000/year worldwide. If I had to guess, I would say they have their bottom line squarly in sight. An 08 sheet metal update does make a lot of sense.

mac11

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I like the way you think but I believe they wouldn't even have to go to that kind of extreem to get the job done. I would say 300lbs off the sport model (2650 curb), give a solid, certified 250bhp (for arguments sake lets say that would be +25bhp), and toss on the Mazdaspeed suspension sways, shocks, springs - maybe up the spring rates another 15-20%. Offer that with some sort of warranty for 2 production years.

MrCairo

Expo1 makes the point well. While the RX-8 is what Mazda likes to show, it simply doesn't pay the bills. I'm not sure if the line is even entirely profitable to them - anyone know what their profit are for the RX-8?

Mazda loves the Rotary engine and but will need more R&D time to get it to the torque and fuel efficiency of a standard piston engine. So Maybe a Mazdaspeed RX-9 in the future?

The bottom line, the Mazda 3/6 keeps the company profitable. Be very happy that Mazda is not like most American car companies that would simply discontinue the line - especially with the sales numbers that the RX-8 brings in. Luckily the management of Mazda wants the Rotary to differentiate the company from everyone else. This means that the rotary engine and the RX line will likely not go away anytime soon.

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the car and love the fact that it sells a mere 500-600 units a month since that makes the care a little more exclusive than the likes of an Evo or a Mustang.

Anyhow, my .02

Brettus

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Excellent idea mac with one fatal flaw . How can they advertise the renesis with "increased power of 250hp" when that is what it was supposed to have all along .

champi0n

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The way I look at it is, would YOU rather a girlfriend that slept with 10,000 guys a month, or 500? (And those are your only 2 options)

And to put it from the other perspective that mazda is a pimp, they trick out 10,000 toothless crack addicts for cheap, but put the blonde bombshell on their business cards, where as only 500 of their clients can afford it and are interested in more then just getting some....

So looks like business is business... your better off giving a few teeth to the girls that turn more tricks.