What year and which engine is your I30 ?
- Not sure of the engine. I’d have to check.
Still don’t have car back. They have found additional problems (injectors and rocker arm failure). They tried to charge us more, but we pushed back saying that they never mentioned there could be other issues and that they should have stopped work since the cost to fix would exceed the car value. They have accepted fault and are now seeing if they can get Mazda head office to fix under warranty because they are saying the rocker arm was defective.
I feared as much. That said, at the original price they gave you i’d have thought it would have anticipated such things.
Maintaining that Porsche will not be cheap.
The current Toybaru with the 2.4 is quick, nimble, fun and a boxer. Plenty of Porsche vibes in that combo.
Turbo charge it if you really need it to be quicker.
My mate has a lovely 997, and it is a beautiful thing to drive, but we both agree it is not more simple fun than his old NB MX-5 on the road.
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It’s a lemon. Cut your losses and write it off to experience. Not very good for a Hyundai of that vintage, though, unless it’s been badly mistreated.
It really is criminal how expensive cars are to fix these days.
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Imagine the carbon emissions we would save if they made cars reliable, maintainable and upgradable, instead of making consumable items loaded with unnecessary tech, and designed to meet certain arbitrary magic numbers et by the EU when rolling out of the factory. I’m talking about things like 0W-20 oil, belt-driven CVTs, and E10 fuel.
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His is a diesel Mazda.
TheAnt has the dead hyundai
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I hear the new BRZ/86 is going to be the Mazota or Toyzda, apparently Subaru have dropped out of the next evolution of this sports car and Mazda have partnered with Toyota dropping the MX 5
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I’ve heard a few different scenarios.
Making affordable sports cars is expensive and a huge challenge, so Toyota and Mazda teaming up makes sense.
I guess we’ll see!
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Just when they got the Subaru motor right
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There is no way known Mazda will drop the mx5.
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I imagine that the new MX-5 would be one of the cars on the possible co-developed platform if it eventuated. That’s the main reason I could see Mazda going into it.
Mazda will reputedly do the heavy lifting , the Mx-5 will have a new 2.5L Mazda built four cylinder , and the new GR86 will be built on a stretched version of the Mx-5 floorplan built in the Mazda plant with a Toyota engine.
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That’s rings a bell. A 2.5L, but with the new efficiency and emissions tech much like the current 2L in terms of performance.
And the new MX - 5 will most likely now be a 4 seater.
Yeah bad wording, as they will keep the MX5 but it will be collaborate with the 86 not exclusive as such .
All the small cars get bigger over time.
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Nah, the Mx-5 will stay as a 2 seater but the overall platform will be stretched for the 4 seat GR bodies.
The NC series Mx-5’s are good cars, but Mazda learnt that their buying public want shorter and lighter Mx-5’s , hence the ND being more like the NB series.
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