jsotelo

I would hope that it's world wide but nobody asked. The questions asked were "Is the RX-8 a success so far and what would it take for it to be a continuing succcess."

They said that there were more preorders than anticipated and they were very pleased by that. In fact the desiginer of the 8.. can't remember his name this second and I can't read the autograph he gave me on the RX-8 poster , said he JUST got his 8.. he had to wait months in Japan for it.. he didn't get any prefered treatment.. in fact he was at the end of the list.. Mazda said that every Rensis engine is accounted for and that it was almost impossible for them to get the 80 some engines to do the Star Racing (or whatever it was called) they did earlier in the year because that ment 80 cars they couldn't sell.

That being said they JUST started advertising the car and were hoping for the sales to spike for the next year and gradualy decrease after that. They said 2500 cars a month for the first year would be a success followed by 2000 cars a month after that.

The more I think about it.. I think it has to be world wide.. 2500 is a LOT of cars!!

rotary_it_up

400-500 cars/state X 50 states = 20000-25000 cars!!!

More like 40-50 cars/state per month

med_mx6

aha! I are dum. (now 40-50 cars/state is reasonable!)

eccles

Texas will keep up its end of that deal, but I'm not sure about those Rhode Islanders. :p

FutureRX8owner

Thanks for the update! I am VERY close to buying an RX8 (might even be tomorrow) I got to test drive a 6MT today.

I'm really sorry I missed SS this year, but there's always next year

Peter Sawko

I'm worried! I don't think they'll meet their sales goals. This is not a mass appeal car.

Also, it looks like this first year model, if successful, will be left behind by a turbo model for 2005. No ECU modifications are indicated based on the cat heat problems.

Too bad! I kept mine hoping things would improve.

mikeb

having a turbo in 2005 would be a long shot to say the least