Basically this. The FD was approaching porche levels of pricing due to the strong yen, but Mazda kept making the RX-7 a more expensive, complicated, and less reliable car each model. They went back on this with the RX-8 and magicaly sold 290k of those. >t. on my second FD, love them, but maintenance is expensive
Too expensive. Adjusted for inflation it was in the mid 70s. It was about the same price as a Vette significantly more than a Camaro, not to far off a 911 like the other anon said. It was slower and far more unreliable than similarly priced cars.
The fact LS swapped FDs go for the same or more than stock FDs says a lot. Most cars depreciate significantly if you engine swap, especially off brand engine swap.
Amazingly beautiful and fun cars when things are going correctly though
LS swapped fd's do not go for more. Any fd in good condition is going for more with a 13b than an LS. LS swaps just get more attention because they're especially controversial. Also apart from raw hp numbers, the fd was not far off from other higher performance sports cars like the m3s, porsche's and the corvette. A 93 fd went for $32k vs $36k for a corvette which was worse in every way except straightline performance. Sure you can argue about the camaro being $20k but that had a solid axle and an lt small block.
FD was unironically a peice of shit that suffered from a lot more reliability issues than the FC.
The fd was an amazing chassis at the time but the tech wasn't there yet to fully bulletproof the 13b like now. Still don't understand why they didn't put the cosmo 3 rotor in any version, seeing that it was a more balanced and less stressed engine at higher power levels, but it is what it is.
>FC most popular >Yet FB: 471,018 produced in 7 years
Am I a joke to you?
I mean, I have a mazda glc suspension with live axle and am built with the structural rigidity of a cotton candy handle, but other than that...
My friend's mom had one just like that in the 80s, even as 8 year olds buddy and I BARELY fit in the back. Hers was copper red as supposedly real red like she wanted would "make her insurance premium too high"
I'm not sure rear seats were even available as an option on US market cars, per this link they were only in japan, and possibly available as aftermarket. I can't even easily find a pic of rx7 rear seats but I saw a set for sale once. You may be thinking of an FC.
https://www.nopistons.com/1st-generation-specific-16/do-1st-gens-have-rear-seat-54005/
My car does have threaded rear seat seatbelt mount points in the body, though.
RX-7 was most popular in late 80s in US. FC sold 272k units in seven years, FD 65k in eleven years.
Why? The FD was amazing
FD was unironically a peice of shit that suffered from a lot more reliability issues than the FC.
Basically this. The FD was approaching porche levels of pricing due to the strong yen, but Mazda kept making the RX-7 a more expensive, complicated, and less reliable car each model. They went back on this with the RX-8 and magicaly sold 290k of those.
>t. on my second FD, love them, but maintenance is expensive
Too expensive. Adjusted for inflation it was in the mid 70s. It was about the same price as a Vette significantly more than a Camaro, not to far off a 911 like the other anon said. It was slower and far more unreliable than similarly priced cars.
The fact LS swapped FDs go for the same or more than stock FDs says a lot. Most cars depreciate significantly if you engine swap, especially off brand engine swap.
Amazingly beautiful and fun cars when things are going correctly though
LS swapped fd's do not go for more. Any fd in good condition is going for more with a 13b than an LS. LS swaps just get more attention because they're especially controversial. Also apart from raw hp numbers, the fd was not far off from other higher performance sports cars like the m3s, porsche's and the corvette. A 93 fd went for $32k vs $36k for a corvette which was worse in every way except straightline performance. Sure you can argue about the camaro being $20k but that had a solid axle and an lt small block.
The fd was an amazing chassis at the time but the tech wasn't there yet to fully bulletproof the 13b like now. Still don't understand why they didn't put the cosmo 3 rotor in any version, seeing that it was a more balanced and less stressed engine at higher power levels, but it is what it is.
Expensive.
>FC most popular
>Yet FB: 471,018 produced in 7 years
Am I a joke to you?
I mean, I have a mazda glc suspension with live axle and am built with the structural rigidity of a cotton candy handle, but other than that...
Lmao at the same time you can make a tube chassis for it in about 2 days and have a 12a powered missile
My friend's mom had one just like that in the 80s, even as 8 year olds buddy and I BARELY fit in the back. Hers was copper red as supposedly real red like she wanted would "make her insurance premium too high"
I'm not sure rear seats were even available as an option on US market cars, per this link they were only in japan, and possibly available as aftermarket. I can't even easily find a pic of rx7 rear seats but I saw a set for sale once. You may be thinking of an FC.
https://www.nopistons.com/1st-generation-specific-16/do-1st-gens-have-rear-seat-54005/
My car does have threaded rear seat seatbelt mount points in the body, though.
>I can't even easily find a pic of **SAFB*** rx7 rear seats
I like these with the old school python body kit, whale tail, and a v8
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the movie was influenced by the car culture of the time, not the other way around.
what movie?
The 1st gen RX7 sold like 300k units or something
a little bit, yeah