I have been assured numerous times that this is not going to be the case. It is much more likely that if you didn't order a popular configuration your car would be delayed, rather than it being specifically because of nav.

 

Personally, I'll be happy as long as mine gets here no later then July. By then I'll have lots of time to drive it. :D

 

This is the mail about [RX-8 announcement exhibition] sent to Japanese pre-order owners from Japan MAZDA.

It was counted down up to the RX-8 announcement.
An idea and demand are received in order to heap up with you the exhibition which can also be called the birthday! The propriety of realization does not ask. Please bring near the idea which congratulates the "eight" on birthday by all means.

Questionnaire deadline: March 19, 2003

my guess...
[Questionnaire deadline: March 19,]
[RX-8 exhibition: April 4(Friday)] (mazda say, exhibition is Weekday)
[RX-8 Delivery Begin: April 11]

It's just my hope...Japan MAZDA does not yet teach to me about[the day] .

 

YJust thinking your cars are built in the Us aren't they ????

So my comments probably don't apply !

 

nope. everything is coming from japan.

 

So you must be after us.

We have 60 car's in the March 10 allocation. So you could still be in mid to late march.

Japanese ones are first of course !

 

They're talking about July for the first UK *demonstrators*.

Damn shame they couldn't squeeze out a few more RHD cars before moving onto the USA, but maybe they want to do the first European allocation in one big batch.

 

As far as I'm aware they are doing J-Spec (incl. Aust & NZ) first the USA (Backward ones - hehe jk guys :P) then UK from memory.

 

you better hope is not built in the usa .have you seen the way they work i won't want my car built here not a rx model. alot of people don't care about there jobs or anything anymore is not like the old days people cared for they job .IT sad to say but i see it every were even my job.

 

2862 cars went under when the ship sank; volvos, etc. I was told this was a midsize ship. I called a shipping company and he said it takes about 12 days for a ship to come from Japan; he was the person that said that was a mid size ship that sank. If Mazda plans on selling 60,000 RX8s next year, that is over 1,000 per week they can build. I still want delivery in April. If Job 1 is March 14, I don't see a problem. Plenty of time to make 1000 RX8s, load them and get them to the west coast and then down to the Gulf coast for Texas.

 

Keep in mind that the spec sheet shows it was updated 1/30/03. That was a couple weeks before the actual engine production began, and about a month before the Japanese production began. I still think if your order says "Apr/Wk 1" that your car won't begin production until then and you still need to add 5 weeks minimum from the production date. Reminds me, there's had been discussion within the last 2 months about the "45 days within production" - I think that's still an estimate - based on our Mazda sending confirming letters out mid-Jan to Mid-Feb (mine's dated 2/21) that means actual production may be starting between tomorrow and early April (mine works out to be 4/14).

I'm sure the first to get their next letter about production beginning will post about it; and IMHO I think it will be soon and will occur somewhere close to when the US options / accessories are announced.
p.s. still hoping for the 6CD and a gift on the lines of the Germans'.

 

when i went to the dealer on saturday he he printed of the pre-orders for the dealership from the dealer side of the website. there were 2 dates listed for each order- the date the order was entered and the date (or suspected date) of delivery. that date on mine said june week 1. the person before me on the list had may week 4. i think that if someone's dealer told them april week 1 they should ask to see the pre order list and maybe get a copy for us so that we can see this april delivery date for our selves

 

sorry, I wasn't clear - Apr/Wk 1 is my build date, not ship date. My ship date last I saw was still "TBD".

 

Mazda to release the RX8 "summer 2003". June 21 is Summer.

 

this is a really old thread...people may not like the revival of old threads
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Launch box vaporizer

 

my dealer said my car will be in a week to before the 27 of june.

 

Not sure if this applies to the US market but there is a delay due to demand on the Renesis engine in Japan. They can't build engines to keep up with supply in the JDM market.

We got put out by 1-2 months

 

Mine will be in Tacoma WA this Saturday, and then the dealer says about 3 weeks from then it will be at the dealership.

I hope to be driving it the third week in July.

 

I live in Westlake Village, CA which’s about eighteen miles away from Port Heuneme…does that make me the forum member closest to the North American arrival point???

I didn’t preorder a RX-8 as my ’87 RX-7 still runs great (263,000 miles on the original engine…you guys are in for a real treat) but should it die, I’ll pick one up.

Congratulations to all those who’ve placed a claim on the road candy that’s pulling into my town.

 

woohoo!! you are the closest. so go camp out and let us know as soon as the boat is unloaded!! :D :D :D

 

Mine is believed to be on arriving 3rd week July. I wish we could get as much info on the east coast arrivals as the west coast folk have!
Sounds like they need a fourth person building the Renesis engines. Going from memory - didn't the Mazda factory PR say only 3 people are building them?

 

The "Japanese Domestic Market" market?!?! :D :D :D

 

The first vehicles (the ones "on water" as of two weeks ago) are slated to hit dealerships July week 3 or 4 according to Mazda inbound lists. Our initial pull will be three vehicles, one of which Mazda has designated as a demonstrator that cannot be sold for six months, with 25 more to follow over the course of the following months. Every dealer should be roughly the same, depending on how long it takes to get the vehicles from the port to the dealer.