Official press release, No's of RX-8's coming to Britain

[clive]

Hi All, Excellent NEWS.

Official press release from the Mazda U/K monthly round-up/ update via your club today,


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28th February saw the Mazda RX-8 advance order web site , www.mazdaRX8.co.uk
go live , where customers who want to be the first in the queue for the unique rotary sports car
can pay a deposit of £1000.
ln the first WEEK the site saw 360 customers place a deposit , there will be ONLY 3,500 RX-8 vehicles available to U/K customers during 2003
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To put this in prospective there are only around 500 Gen 3 RX-7s on the road in the U/K .

Brace yourselves chaps, a new Rotary era is Dawning.

All the Best Clive
e-mail: clive@mazdarotaryclub.com
web: www.mazdarotaryclub.com

[bnaellis]

Hi Clive,
Looks like there are going to be some exciting times ahead us rotary enthusiasts. I suspect that it won't be too long before all 3,500 are already reserved. If I had the money I would too.
I just hope no other car company try's building a rotary engine car and take away the exclusivity of it all.

rgds

Brian

[g11ary]

Bourne rd told my brother that 1700 where ordered on first day.

Has anyone seen the cd on the rx8, brother got one through post today will see if I can get it to one of you guys.

[richrx]

BNA, Mazda own all the copyright laws for the rotary, which means that there the only ones who can produce it:bandit

[MikeLMR]

I think it is possible for another company to make a rotary (and many companies have done in the past ,Citroen , Mercedes , Norton and of course NSU etc. etc.)

what would be difficult is they would have to catch up with the years of research that Mazda have and I should imagine Mazda do have the rights to many of the quirks that make a rotary engine work in the real world

Mike