Adding to the collection

[Osiris]

Started looking at cars again, fiance is not budging much on letting me modify her lil bday present:


So, i've picked it out, but i'm buying it after winter, buying a brand new car after winter, before winter just seems wrong, know how much salt is on the roads in winter time in WI??

[JustOneMore20]

That is an awesome car! Wish I had the Speed instead of the regular 6. What color do ya want?

I was drooling over those when I was shopping for my car...they are sweet.

[Osiris]

O yea, I'm thinking i'll just have it made, thinking go black cuz i plan to change out the rims for Chrome ones and a blue undercar streetglow kit.

[Damon]

Its a Mazda

[girth vader]

Mazda used to make great cars, when they were an import. Now since Mazda and Ford are practically the same company sharing most parts, owning a Mazda is just as crappy as owning a domestic. The + side is they aren't expensive to buy, but as soon as you run out of warrenty, your beat. Buy a VW instead, same price range, but none of the Domestic car failures

[vinimack720]

yea, most mazda's are just as bad as fords now. the only cars they make that are half way decent are the RX-7(old) and the RX-8

[Scuba Kid]

What's wrong with Fords?
My dad has a '95 F-150 pickup and he's never had a problem with it (bought in 95). It's in great condition and he still uses it regularly to this day.
Something new with Fords that i haven't heard of that makes them crappy?

[Shaggy]

Marty, you have a picture of a Pontiac on the first pic, and then mazdas there after. What are you going to get here?

Go with black. I have a black truck, and I love it

[emc7]

Black? You must live in the north. Black cars in atlanta are for frying eggs.

[Osiris]

Shaggy, that was my fiance's b-day gift lol. I been having going through havoc to try to work on it, think i should send her on vacation to her mom's then work on it while she's gone

Yea black, we get cold here in the winter, besides black after a fresh new coat of wax you could shave ur face in the reflection!

[mrmoby]

Originally Posted by Scuba Kid

What's wrong with Fords?
My dad has a '95 F-150 pickup and he's never had a problem with it (bought in 95). It's in great condition and he still uses it regularly to this day.
Something new with Fords that i haven't heard of that makes them crappy?

There is nothing wrong with Fords. If Mazda coould build a decent truck, then they wouldn't be selling rebadged Fords as the have been doing for close to 20 years, long before ford ever bought them out.

[Osiris]

Let me tell you something each company has their faults, saturns with their oil consumptions, ford for their transmissions, pontiacs for their electrical problems, chevy has same electrical problems, etc. just can't win its how they stay in business things go wrong gotta order parts gotta get it fixed dont matter what vehicle it is.

[Lydia]

Black looks awesome when properly detailed, but if you aren't careful you will get tons of swirlies and cobwebbing in the paint. So many people have really nice black cars but so many swirlies they cover the whole hood when you look at it in the sunlight.

That's a really sweet car!

[guppyart]

Originally Posted by Osiris

Let me tell you something each company has their faults, saturns with their oil consumptions, ford for their transmissions, pontiacs for their electrical problems, chevy has same electrical problems, etc. just can't win its how they stay in business things go wrong gotta order parts gotta get it fixed dont matter what vehicle it is.

thats why you buy toyota, suzuki, saab, and all the great import cars

[CaysE]

ROFL, this thread is funny.

[aaa]

if mazda can make great car again like rx7, i would buy them.

i don't know about the regular mazdas, but i know people said rotary engine is not realiable, if you take care of your car, that is not a bad engine. plus people put bad aftermarket turbo in there and never care about it and that's what mess up the car. true, rotary engine use a lot of oil, but it is not that hard just to add some oil to it.

toyota sucks now, unless they come up with something good, i would start away from toyota. where is mr2 and other cars go? at least they should make a RWD car like corolla gts in 80's. that is one good car.

too bad everyone just focus on family car and stuff and the real sport car is expensive. i don't care about toyota corolla xrs, just give me a rwd car(or 4 wheel drive), i will be happy(car, not more suvs or truck)

[Damon]

Speaking as someone who builds cars for a living...
90% of cars built will run fine for the duration provided you keep up with the matainence.
1% come off the line with problems that arent caught before shipped (leaky solenoid, crack in radiator hose, cracked oil pan etc...)
5% Have problems that cannot be forseen (part wearing early, faulty bolts etc...)
1% In shipping (Dings in body, cracks in lights)
2% Engineering flaws (parts not up to specs)

We check, and recheck, and recheck (30% of our workforce does nothing but check parts and functionality) but we are all human. We build approx 500 cars per 8 hrs. Without the checks we could increase that output to 850 per 8 hrs.

Again most cars do what they are supposed to. But its a no win situation for Car manufacturers. You always hear about the 500 cars that are flawed but what about the 49500 that were fine?

Just rambling here......................
I guess what I'm saying is take care of your car and odds are great it will take care of you..................

[aaa]

please remove the ad above, this have nothing to do with discussion

[JustOneMore20]

How bout that spam....

Marty, I think the Speed 6 is awesome! I haven't heard too many bad things about Mazda....and neither has my dad who wouldn't have bought my Mazda 6 if he had. This thread is very interesting to me....

[Osiris]

I haven't either i've joined up on a few mazda6 forums, not really too many people having problems, but given the speed6 is a 2006 new model i believe....i was just looking at speed3 but yuck speed6 is better...