Hey Everyone,

I'm looking to get an Rx-8 in September of 2010, but I'm a little confused. I'm from New Jersey and haven't seen any of the New Generation 2009 Rx-8's on the Dealer lots.... Does anyone know when they might become available? I still have a little bit, but I wanted to check them out.

Is Mazda waiting for the 2010 models?

Thanks,

Renesis

P.S. I posted this also in the NE Regional Forums.

 

The dealership in Hamilton has a few on the lot.

 

Hmmm, I'll have to check that out. I live in Northern New Jersey and none of the dealers have any except I think Wayne Mazda might.

 

If you go to Mazda's website and click the rx8 then under shopping tools hit search inventory you can see what all the dealers within a specified radius have on the lot.

 

I'm checking that out now :D Thank you.

Some guy on the other forum just told me that the Rx-8's are being canceled from the North American Market?

 

Dealer around my area has a couple on their lot right now. One in the showroom and one out on the parking lot.

Due to the economy the dealers are probaly not putting in to many orders for the rx8's as their not the best selling car on the Mazda lot.

Plus too many rotary amateurs give the rx8 a bad name in reliability. And most of your sales man don't know the true difference between a rotary and a piston engine. They just see dollar signs in your eyes. And they don't know the strong selling points in the rx8 besides...

"This is a awesome looking car and it has 4 doors!! Cheaper on insurance so you can speed away!"

[if your male] "All the girls will think your hot stuff if you buy this car"

(You ask, so what about the performance spec's and how is the handeling on this car?) Sales man says hold on just a minute. Runs to his desk to grab the Mazda booklet.

After a couple minutes of reading he says "It's fast and has a 9k red line, what a sweet car!"

So you take it out on a test drive and say do you mind if I take the tac to 9k? Sales man says "NO, its bad for the engine to rev it so high. You can blow a rod if you don't shift at the right time...." lol... My personal experience. I can say that dealer did not get my business due to the low informed n00bie sales man. The sales guy would'nt even drop the price of the car because he insisted it was a Ferrari for the average joe to afford.

Sorry for run off there. I just got worked up again.

 

He's messing with you, guy.

 

We have them here in Atlanta.

 

Haha good story! XD. I've considered other cars for when my lease is up, but I always keep coming back to the Rx-8, it's something about it. I'm even looking into the R3, but I don't even want to know the monthly payments on that

 

I fiqured he was, grrrr him

 

My dealer experience (Rosenthal Mazda-Nissan, Tyson's Corner, VA) was very different. The sales manager's car was an RX-8...that's what I took my demo ride in. The salesman was also pretty knowledgable about rotaries...maybe because he was a motorcylist and appreciated good machinery.

Service department is also pretty up on rotaries. I see a fair number coming and going when I bring Zoomy in for his oil chainges.

On the original topic of availability - It's my understanding that all manufacturers have cut production, and that dealers are letting inventories run down. Just working supply and demand to get the sales prices up. Hard to demand a high price for anything if the lot is overflowing.

Ken

 

Hmmm, I'm wondering if they'll be available for 2010, or maybe I'll just have to order one through Mazda itself

 

It is not like dealers are rolling in money nowadays. If you had finite funds, you're not going to stock the slowest seller on the lot in droves.

 

I saw a couple at the race track.

 

There're 9 of them within 50 miles of me in SE Mass, mostly black mica/BB.

 

I looked up on Mazda USA and searched for some of the Rx-8's around the state, I found a lot of them actually

I'm looking at the R3 also, but don't even want to know the payments

 

I've seen them here at a few dealers in Ottawa... They do exist!

 

There's plenty down here

 

Order a new one?

 

That Jersey dealership is very smart.
RX-8 is one of the poorest selling sports car today, period.
Bad thing for the dealerships, but good thing Mazda North America, as there won't be as much negative feedback on those surveys from the general public that bought the car and not knowing the maintenance that rotaries require.
After the first generation, I truly applaud Mazda's continuation of the rotary despite pitiful sales number and the amount of money they spend replacing/fixing the Renesis engines.

With that said, Don Miller Mazda in Madison has 4 RX-8s in the parking lot, and one in the showroom, that have been there for a few months now.

 

Rosenthal is a great well known dealer with extremely knowledgeable staff. Their service department is great too. Also Heritage has some decent sales man but also have some that are really bad. But the local dealers around my way were just horribly dumb.. But every now in then you would get lucky and find someone who know's what their talking about and performed their research on what their selling. But in my experience in shopping for cars. I've mostly always knew more about the car than the actual salesman did. Due to my massive research on things before I buy.

 

The first dealer I went to flat out told me I couldn't afford the car, before they even saw my credit history or anything. Needless to say I went somewhere else and got a much better deal than they were offering and didn't get treated like a red-headed stepson.

 

^^^ Gotta spend that money where people treat you with some respect......

I'll walk out of a place if they are showing me lack of respect.
Why give them my money?

 

Sept 2010? that's a loooonnnnng time from now...

 

September 2010 is a lonnng time from now, but I wanted to do as much research on the car as I could, even though I know it's still over a year away. September is when my lease ends.

I'm thinking about ordering one directly from the factory, especially if Mazda might not have them on the lot by that time.

Also the next Rotary could come out by than


Renesis