Lets talk about the FD, the 93-95 RX-7
Pole Position
Joined: May 2003
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From: Texas
Thanks, it was a great car! I WILL have another FD some day, once I have the garage space to keep it along with the daily drivers of me and my wife.
I even upgraded my garage floor after buying the FD, so that it would have a worthy place to park every night!!
I even upgraded my garage floor after buying the FD, so that it would have a worthy place to park every night!!
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Joined: Jan 2003
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From: ca
sexy car, one of the best handling and snap your head back cars I've ever ridden in when modded. But you can spend the cost of the car just maintaining it.
Back when I was in high school in the mid 90's my father had a supercharged Mazda Millenia. When he brought it into the old Mazda dealership in Escondido, which had 20 some bays, half of them had FD's up on the lifts. When we asked the mechanic whats up with the RX7s he just said they are the most unreliable car he's ever seen. This is coming from a mechanic, AT A MAZDA DEALERSHIP!
I don't think Ford's involement with Mazda will be any help for the new RX7s.
Back when I was in high school in the mid 90's my father had a supercharged Mazda Millenia. When he brought it into the old Mazda dealership in Escondido, which had 20 some bays, half of them had FD's up on the lifts. When we asked the mechanic whats up with the RX7s he just said they are the most unreliable car he's ever seen. This is coming from a mechanic, AT A MAZDA DEALERSHIP!
I don't think Ford's involement with Mazda will be any help for the new RX7s.
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From: Virginia/D.C. suburbs
I know this is a very late reply to a very old post, but there's a reason for the unreliability of the 3rd-Gen RX-7, especially with some of the underbody parts. In order to get such a responsive, perfectly-balanced, superb-handling sports car, they essentially did it Lotus-style...make it as featherweight as possible, yet keeping a reasonable number of modern-day comforts (A/C, power windows, stereo, etc...) So, to do that, they used a lot of very lightweight aluminum parts in the frame, chassis, suspension, and steering....and, of course, the small, lightweight twin-turbo rotary engine. Those lightweight chassis parts were fine on smooth roads, but hit a few frost heaves, humps, broken pavement, potholes, etc...or run over something, and you were often looking at bent parts and repairs, not just simple alignments. In addition, the light weight meant skimpy insulation.....and very loud, pronounced road and wind noise. That loud road/tire noise was not just something I noticed in my RX-7 test-drive, but, at the time, was also mentioned by a number of auto magazines as well.
