NomadicRiley

Looks like the large discounts on the 05's worked...

http://media.ford.com/mazda/article_...27&make_id=227

Ike

If you call a 36% decrease in sales from last year working then you're right.

Rich Rx-8

Haha. Yeah what he said.

bascho

Bye bye 2007 RX8......or at least any major changes for 2007.

saturn

Here's some stats for February for MNAO:

http://sev.prnewswire.com/auto/20060...1032006-1.html

For the extremely lazy the 8 sold 699 in Febraury (w/ 1,407 last Feb.) and 1,335 this year so far (w/ 2,428 last year at this time). Man, that kinda sucks *****.

rotary crazy

if you consider the month to month sales it was a large increase and world wide its doing pretty good, the only way it can get discontinued from the american market is if theres a large change in laws causing a large redesing and the beans counter decide its not economically intelligent to do so.

november05 884
december05 985
january06 636
february06 699
march 06 1,582

the #'s that I really dont like are the mx-5

NomadicRiley

I meant versus the Feb sales... which were even worse.

RazzyBRX-8

the mx-5 sales went up because they changed.

im sure the rx-8 will still be sold.

Renesis_8

This year's sale will be a little less than last year's. The jump is probably due to the arrival of 2006s and spring.
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saturn

Here's some stats for March for MNAO:

http://sev.prnewswire.com/auto/20060...3042006-1.html

That makes the sales for the RX-8 in North America (2005 sales in parenthesis):

January: 636 (1,021)
February: 699 (1,407)
March: 1,582 (2,489)

Overall sales are down 41% from last year at this time. I know the 8 is sold all over the world, but I'm really only interested in North American sales. They could sell a million overseas, but I don't doubt they'll pull the plug in NA if sales don't pick up here.

DreRX8

With them making money on SUVs and Mazda 6s and 3s -- the RX8 will stay around. Remember very rarely do sports cars make real money for car makers -- with the exception being the Mustang and possibly the Z. Also keep in mind the Z shares so many parts that it is more of a low risk project per se.

Well, regardless I have my 8 already so it really doesn't matter to me.

djgiron

Gee, I wonder why sales are down for the last 3 months . . . could it be that the 07 were late arriving here?

saturn

Yeah, but at the same time, the 2005's were being sold during those months and rediculously low prices. That should have helped boost sales.

RotoRocket

iTrader: (1)

Why are people obsessed with notion that Mazda is going to pull the plug on the RX-8 in North America?

I mean, let's get real. As long as the 8 sells globally, it's not going anywhere.

saturn

But do you think they're going to be more or less likely to give the car more power (which is what Americans seem to want) when it's doing poorly in the US market? I think success globally means that the car won't be designed with the US market in mind (at least not as much).

Glyphon

the FD was pulled in 95 and continued in japan until 02. so its not unheard of for mazda to pull a car from one or more markets and continue to sell in another.

RotoRocket

iTrader: (1)

That's a fair point.

RX-Hachi

In the US, the RX-8 has sold more cars in the first 3 months of '06 than the FD RX-7 did in its entire final year of '95. (Heck, just the month of March alone beat the FD's total). In '96 there was a major emissions regulation change and Mazda couldn't justify recertification for the '96 model year. End of story for the RX-7 in the US.

The RX-8's case is nothing like the RX-7's. The sky is not falling.

Razz1

Anything over 1000/mnth is great.

Market this year is different than last year.

Can't always compare year to year sales. Need to step up a knotch and look at the bigger picture.

rotary crazy

thats the real reason why the rx-7 was pull from the US market, mazda made shure it was not going to hapeng to the rx-8 by making it emisions legal pass 2010 or something dont remember very well, but at the expense of some hp.

bascho

That wasn't Mazda that made sure it met emissions....that was Ford. You can say a lot of negative things about Ford cars.......but as far as emissions go, Ford is a world leader.

rotarygod

We'll see a 2007 RX-8 in the US. Enough said.

saturn

I don't think too many people are saying that the RX-8 won't be continued for at least another year. A 3 1/2 year run isn't enough to substantiate all that development they did to get this car to market. The question is, as always, what the 2007's will look like and what they will have under the hood.

The longer sales are bad, the less likely more money will be spent to make this car (or its successor) more powerful. I have no proof of this -- it's just my 2¢.

rotary crazy

sales are not bad, the development of the next generation rotary engine is well on track and we will see a new rx car very soon and a redesing of the rx-8

as I said before the rx-8 open the door for oficial rotary development, something that was not done since the rx-01 in the 90'

bascho

I have to agree with Saturn on this. I don't think that Mazda will necessarily drop the RX8 for 2007.....but not making any changes at all from the 2006 version is highly probable with another dismal year of sales. I guess Mazda, the press, and us will all have to wait and see how the summer plays out.....cause we all know how the winter ends up with this car.