Turbocharged
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Joined: Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:41 pm
Location: Málaga (Spain)
Cars: '99 Ford Escort 1.8TD
'90 Opel Corsa 1.0S
'96 Mazda Xedos 6 V6 2.0
Sat May 25, 2013 10:33 am
My '96 Mazda Xedos 6 V6
Hello!
From Spain, I bring you my little piece of heaven.
I bought it three years ago (2010), it was the cheaper car in my town, and the greatest, in my opinion.
This is a Mazda Xedos 6, here in Spain is a very uncommon car, only 2000 are counted in the country (based in a Xedos-fan web). I´ve seen almost 3 or 4 since I have it.
I have the V6 one, a 2000cc VRIS injection (multipoint) 24 valve engine.
It's a mid-size luxury saloon that competed with the BMW 320 there in early 90s. The ignorance of the brand here in Europe, and therefore in Spain were responsible of the poor sales of the Xedos, and of the end of production in 1999.
Mine is still running after 17 years, and quite well. The engine is superb, very silent at low rpm, can be pushed into 7000rpm in a brief.
With no significant breakdowns, only a CV joint repair, the electric stuff is the real problem. Some wiring issues with the rear fog lamp and the passenger sit heater, worn pieces in the side wing electric mirror and the front right electric window. The electric antenna was also broken the first day I drove the car, what a luck!!.
The wires of the fog lamp were repaired and I managed to change the antenna for another one I bought in eBay. I went to a Mazda dealership searching for the other broken or worn parts and... they are going to be broken indefinitely! ($$$$$$$)
I have recently reached 200k kilometres, I have made 40k of them, and I think that I can do another 200k. Those cars are greatly well-built and some japanese cars can live forever (not the only one saying this)
Here without the plate holder.
It has still some work on it, the trunk dampers are also worn and I want to replace them. It needs a paint job, but it's not urgent.
It's my car for every day, it's has a normal fuel consuption (it's a petrol engine, you know...) but not the best for driving around the town...
[[BONUS]]
Here with a '83 Nissan Gloria
Here with a pal, a Savanna Rx7
From Spain, I bring you my little piece of heaven.
I bought it three years ago (2010), it was the cheaper car in my town, and the greatest, in my opinion.
This is a Mazda Xedos 6, here in Spain is a very uncommon car, only 2000 are counted in the country (based in a Xedos-fan web). I´ve seen almost 3 or 4 since I have it.
I have the V6 one, a 2000cc VRIS injection (multipoint) 24 valve engine.
It's a mid-size luxury saloon that competed with the BMW 320 there in early 90s. The ignorance of the brand here in Europe, and therefore in Spain were responsible of the poor sales of the Xedos, and of the end of production in 1999.
Mine is still running after 17 years, and quite well. The engine is superb, very silent at low rpm, can be pushed into 7000rpm in a brief.
With no significant breakdowns, only a CV joint repair, the electric stuff is the real problem. Some wiring issues with the rear fog lamp and the passenger sit heater, worn pieces in the side wing electric mirror and the front right electric window. The electric antenna was also broken the first day I drove the car, what a luck!!.
The wires of the fog lamp were repaired and I managed to change the antenna for another one I bought in eBay. I went to a Mazda dealership searching for the other broken or worn parts and... they are going to be broken indefinitely! ($$$$$$$)
I have recently reached 200k kilometres, I have made 40k of them, and I think that I can do another 200k. Those cars are greatly well-built and some japanese cars can live forever (not the only one saying this)
Here without the plate holder.
It has still some work on it, the trunk dampers are also worn and I want to replace them. It needs a paint job, but it's not urgent.
It's my car for every day, it's has a normal fuel consuption (it's a petrol engine, you know...) but not the best for driving around the town...
[[BONUS]]
Here with a '83 Nissan Gloria
Here with a pal, a Savanna Rx7
