When the date was September that suited me as it will take that long to get to the milage to change the car(company car). Now it has slipped again to Oct/Nov plus all the reports i am reading on the car seem to be at best average compared to the competition I myself am thinking of getting something else instead.
I am lucky that my order is a fleet one where no money changes hand, if i had placed £1000 in a dealers pocket for a July delivery i would certainly be looking for some recompence on the lost interest.
There is no denying the great looks of the car but that is only part of the story, when i ordered this car it was on the premise that it looked better than the likes of the TT, performed better than and were less common. It seems the all important second feature is going to be missing

 

Got my letter this morning

 

I got a second copy this morning??????

The Mazda communications machine has gone into overdrive.

Chris

 

How slow are they sending these letters out. To my knowledge lots of us still haven't received ours yet. It seems like they can't even organise a mailshot to approx 1000 people efficiently.

 

You'd think it would be phrased a bit more like an apology...

"We're really sorry but the car is down 10Bhp and you can't have it until the winter, look on the bright side, you won't want that extra 10Bhp in the winter anyway"..

Infact there has been no official mention to my knowledge of the drop in HP, the first I knew about it was when I logged onto the website to see if there was anything useful there.

 

Haven't got my letter yet.

 

I've just got my second letter this morning! Exactly the same letter, word for word, same reference number but dated two days later. Oh, and they've used a different font.

Does this mean I'm getting two cars? Or can I claim two deposits back?

 

Nope, it means there twice as certain of the facts.

Or are trying to make a point?

Prehaps there correcting the lack of communication by sending out the same letter every 2 days?

Or you've got someone elses too?

 

Depressingly, got my letter this morning. Its now in the bin.



AnilS

 

Does anyone else get the feeling that we're dealing with a bunch of 'cowboy' builders? I mean it's like those horror stories you see on TV about people getting new tarmac driveways and then having the house sink. It's astonishing that this is a supposedly reputable international car company. I can stand back from the horror and feel genuinely intrigued as to the back story behind all of this, if only there was a 'fly on the wall' documentary team following Mazda UK around so we could see what's going on.

 

ive got to the point where i dont let it get to me. Just going out test driving everything under the sun now.

 

OK, got the letter. As has been said the news about the power decrease is just slipped in there like it doesn't matter and likewise the 'we are currently anticipating delivery in late October' statement. Allegedly UK production begins on July 28th which is after the delivery date I signed up for! Very poor.

 

Interesting that this still appears on the mazdarx8.co.uk pages:

The proverbial 'smoking gun'.

'Certain combinations' will be those with wheels then...

 

Combinations : that would be a shell, an engine steering wheel and seats....

Question will be the options of all four or combinations thereof


incidently got my scrap piece of paper yesterday, the best decent toilet paper ive used in a long time.

 

Dentist claims his dealer thinks late October to be optimistic. He could be right but at the moment I don't think the data exists to be sure so I am discounting that idea for now. The latest letter from Mazda UK says that the UK cars will start production in late July so (if this is true and no I don't trust them) the October date sounds feasible. God this is a depressing MESS!!! I despise these people.

 

I've not got the letter in front of me but didn't it say that deliveries would "commence" in late October. i.e. if even one car gets delivered before November then they have met this target.

I am the 18th order at my dealer, so I'm assuming I won't get mine until well into November.

 

I have begun test driving other cars...


saab 93 areo 2.0t - nice car, cabin feels clostrophobic and has a cheap looking interior for a car marketed at around 25k.

S4 - superb awesome car but expensive at 36k. (especially when you add the options) Would consider the A4 in any variant about 1.8T (i.e. 1.8T quatro.)

Evo VIII sorry this car is truely unbealivable. I went for a test drive thinking this is going to be a laff. Came out drooling.

Maybe i did the test drives wrong as the EVO was first.

Z4 on Tuesday but will never buy as it has a BMW badge.

EVO! EVO! EVO!.....(WIFE LOVES IT AS WELL)

 

What is the Evo interior like - does it feel like a 27k car?
I know they go well, but I'm worried all the money is spent on the mechanics and the interior and body is an afterthought.
How will it last?

Most importantly - can you get the rear spoiler removed. Cause for me the word spoiler in this case is what it is!

 

Evo is awesome car, nothing (apart from an Impreza) comes close to the performance for the money.

If you can live with the looks, low rent interior, and high running costs then go for it.........you wont be dissappointed

btw... was it the 93 Aero turbo you drove? My wife is testing one of these next week. We sat in one at the weekend and I thought the interior was very good indeed and not claustrophobic at all. About 1000 times better than the Evos for a start!

 

I drove the new Aero round millbrooke at Motordrive, and thought it went well. Sadly it was an auto - but it felt well built - and I got 150 out of it on the bowl!

 

It was the Areo 2.0t turbo my wife and i both drove. Cant fault the car for looks styling. Just had a comment about the window sills. Plastic thats all. The car had the chrome inserts in the door.

Great car, plenty of fun, everything in on hand and i like the way in which the information is displayed at the end of the dash. Easy to read. I test drove a model with SAT NAV and the all singing and dancing audio system.

Car only needs servicing every 18000 miles..... that says something dont it. My Lexus is every 10000

The EVO interior is as you would expect fairly basic. The seats however are really really comfortable. Even in the back me wife says it was really cosy. Plenty of leg room, boot space is huge.

But then comes the crunch - servicing every 6 months or 4500 miles. OUCH!! If i change jobs i wont be using the car as often so i suspect it would be every 6 months. Fuel comsumption aint something to worry about, if you live in Texas that is. You get a combined rate of about 15 miles to the gallon on a tank which holds only 55 litres will mean regular fill ups.

Wonder what that equates to on a round trip to Scotland of around 1250 miles.

EVO is a totally unpracticle car for driving every day but something for the weekends.

SAAB - perfect all rounder, packs a punch 210 hp and shifts all the functions you would expect from a market leader. The new areo accounts for something like 38% of all SAAB sales at the moment. If you think Mazda are bad, SAAB take the whole month of July off!!!!!! (but at least we know that up front)

 

I didnt ask about the rear spoiler but looking at the brochure i would have to say i doubt it unless you want numerous holes in the boot lid.

In saying that takin the boot lid off does present a very nice looking car. You wouldnt instantly recognise it as an EVO.

SAT NAV comes as a option.

 

If you compare the interior of the EVO with its direct competitor the Scooby then the difference is night and day.

Leather (albeit an option) is all over the place. Dashboard has a number of interesting buttons. Active Yaw control pretty much turns the car in to a mobile computer with intelligence. Handling is so responsive that understeer/oversteer is very rare. This car has got UHU superglue on its tyres it sticks so much to the road. OK the ride is very hard, every bump you feel it but then you would feel it in pretty much every hardened sports suspension car so thats not an argument.


Incidently this car is a front wheel drive or at least the drivetrain is but with the active Yaw control pretty much distributes the power to all 4 wheels. Its an incredible drive.

Even if you dont want one.... Take it for a spin, i tell you this You will love it.