Reply With QuoteI've driven one... nice car.. zippy and torquey. It's not bad for a front wheel drive car.
AutoWeek Dec 20th, 2004! MazdaSpeed6
Mailman left me this weeks issue of AutoWeek featuring the MazdaSpeed6! Think I may have to look at one of these when the lease is up on my OTM!
http://autoweek.com/
I've driven one... nice car.. zippy and torquey. It's not bad for a front wheel drive car.
you've driven a Mazda6 or a Mazdaspeed 6?
MZSPD 6
276hp
280ftlbs
AWD
6Spd
2.3L Turbo, 15.8psi
Sad part... ~3600lbs.
Still looks cool.. GF wants a Mazda6... see if we can swing the Mazdaspeed one here in a year or so...
Sorry... the Mazda 6... I can only imagine the MazdaSpeed 6 would be rocking!
The Mazdaspeed6 is 4wd!Originally Posted by Treibenschnell
POWERTRAIN: 2.3-liter, 274-hp, 280-lb-ft turbocharged I4; awd, six-speed manual
Like I said, it should be rocking!!
Almost 300 hp and AWD... oooohhhh!!!
direct injection too... That's kinda unusual!
It's also good to know a nice starting power for turbo power.. Seeing as this is *supposed* to be the same basic motor as in the NC miata
ill take mine a 5 door.
03 LS FM2ish TDR I/C
99 Disco, the go anywhere ride
I'd like to archive this thread until some of you kids grow up and find a minivan or station wagon sitting in your driveway some morning with cereal bits in the seat and an antique piece of furniture in the cargo area
Oh my... you have seen in my garage!I'd like to archive this thread until some of you kids grow up and find a minivan or station wagon sitting in your driveway some morning with cereal bits in the seat and an antique piece of furniture in the cargo area
I have been looking around, and found that MazdaSpeed sells a large selection of parts for the wife's MPV. I guess Minivan Tuning is big in Japan. Any idea how I can convince her that her van needs the MazdaSpeed exhaust and stiffer lowering springs?
LOL!Oh my... you have seen in my garage!I'd like to archive this thread until some of you kids grow up and find a minivan or station wagon sitting in your driveway some morning with cereal bits in the seat and an antique piece of furniture in the cargo area
Yea geez my kid has almost quit leaving cereal bits in the seat of my official suburban issue SUV!
I want to ditch the SUV for something more responsible like a 300hp 4wd sedan.
Heck with the car will that motor fit in a Miata?
Nothing is more responsible than this car... in order to sell it to the SO, quote Pirelli -I want to ditch the SUV for something more responsible like a 300hp 4wd sedan.
And then do the math... "Honey, see 300hp = power and AWD = control... see, I am being responsible!"Power is nothing without control
Let me know if it works...
Heck with RESPONSIBLE........my order went in YESTERDAY! This is, essentially, the best of my MazdaSpeed Protege and Shelley's Mazda6 S, both of which have been great cars. Add to that another 50HP, AWD, 6-speed, and even more rigidity, and it will be awesome :) I can't wait!
Although my order was not the first one, it was the first one in the Gulf Region that has a "SOLD" notation on it and a priority code of 001. Thanks Freeman Mazda!
BTW, if anyone wants a MazdaSpeed Miata, Freeman has a bunch of the red ones...... Ask for Wayne and tell him Merv sent ya (I gotta pay for the new toy somehow!)
92 Sunny 214k, 95 Dimples, 93 James Bondo, 92 SM (Speedie Jr)
Shelley, Apex, Tigger, Max, Baby(cats), Fluffy, Spot, and Peanut (mini horses), Cinnamon & Bitsy(dawgs)
MSR #1001, SCCA #208822Let's go racin'
Congratulations Merv - I hope you have a blast with it.
Still, I can't help wondering how well this car is going to stack up against the new Subaru Legacy GT. It's got more power (on paper, at least), but it also weighs a lot more (like 400 pounds more), and has a less flexible AWD system.
But hey - it's great to have so many choices for the enthusiast driver!
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
You are the man, sir!
Congrats!
So how long 'till it's in your hands?
Which Freeman? Irving or HurstBTW, if anyone wants a MazdaSpeed Miata, Freeman has a bunch of the red ones...... Ask for Wayne and tell him Merv sent ya (I gotta pay for the new toy somehow!)
Irving......Which Freeman? Irving or HurstBTW, if anyone wants a MazdaSpeed Miata, Freeman has a bunch of the red ones...... Ask for Wayne and tell him Merv sent ya (I gotta pay for the new toy somehow!)
Hurst is now owned by Hiley
92 Sunny 214k, 95 Dimples, 93 James Bondo, 92 SM (Speedie Jr
Shelley
MSR #1001, SCCA #208822
Oh yea I forgot!Irving......Which Freeman? Irving or HurstBTW, if anyone wants a MazdaSpeed Miata, Freeman has a bunch of the red ones...... Ask for Wayne and tell him Merv sent ya (I gotta pay for the new toy somehow!)
Hurst is now owned by Hiley
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