1994 Berline Unpronounceable V6

[dugong]

I miss Hirst. 



Have a dutch angle to start with. 

Always wanted one of these; I might get it an E36 320 or 325 as a stablemate. 
I'm not that bothered about FSH cobblers on a car this age, but this thing has had one owner from new, had Mazda main agent ramp history and lived on a private plate most of its life. 



This car is a bit of a contradiction - a late early car. Documents say it was registered in January 1994 so it was probably built in late 1993. 
2.0-litre V6 likes - and needs - revs. 

It was priced within £200 of an E36 320i but the BM would leave it for dead in the bends. Gloopy steering is the culprit. It gets better with speed but takes a long time for you to trust it can get round. 
It can go round, albeit with a lot of body roll and a confused primary ride I'll chalk up to strut braces fore and aft. 



Interior is interesting, despite Mazda's insistence on making leather appear like vinyl (see also: Lexus LS400). The seats have springs in them - Pullmaflex, it was called. 
No air con; 6s didn't get freeze-breath until August 1994. Like every Mazda K series it's leaking from the rear bank rocker cover gasket and that's the worst of its mechanical woes. 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I like these - and this one looks to be in very fine condition.

[DaveDorson]

Nice car this

[Matt]

Nice, certainly more interesting to look at than a 3 Series. I'm sure there is one of these sitting behind a local Mazda dealer with utterly rotted discs wearing an awfully expensive numberplate.

[dugong]

I like these - and this one looks to be in very fine condition.

 

It has some strange blebs on the bonnet and on the OSR arch. All fixable but a S/H bonnet's going be needed down the line as it's buggered worse than the Liberty Bell. 

MX-3 was like that. Sound other than the slam panel which looked like it had spent ten years under the sea. 

 

MoT history reckons one historic fail on rear suspension corrosion. 

 

Great for what I 'paid' - it had just been serviced, the tyres are all named jobs and it has the original fluffy OEM floor mats and a Bluetooth stereo with customisable illumination.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

 

 

 

 

I'm sure the AS collective could recreate a typical BTCC grid from 1994, now .

This was always going to be the hardest to find.

[oldcars]

Nice you don't see many Xedos 6's about. I pronounce it Zedos is that they way it should be?

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I pronounce it Zedos too.

[Station]

Nice photos, that grille ruins the car though.

[M'coli]

I read somewhere it should be pronounced "kersedus", but don't quote me on that!

[dugong]

Nice photos, that grille ruins the car though.

 

I always liked the styling because at least Mazda tried to be different. There's the faintest strain of Jaguar MkII in there. 

It seems to divide opinion - which is more than can be said of a lot of contemporary Japanese and German shapes. 

 

The grille doesn't bother me that much - at least it gives the front end some definition. 

It manages to look distinctive and bland at the same time.

 

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I'm sure the AS collective could recreate a typical BTCC grid from 1994, now .

This was always going to be the hardest to find.

The surviving car which Matt Neal didn't bin ended up on sale in the States for $28,000 if memory serves.

[Bren]

A man in the pub told me the timing belt replacement is a PITA.

[dugong]

 

More mood. Extra bridge.

 

 

Contentious grille aplenty.

 

 

DEPTH OF FIELD

[Junkman]

That's positively gopping and grim, congratulations!

[dugong]

That's positively gopping and grim, congratulations!

Keeps them cheap. Like a bad debt.

 

If anyone sees the Formule 1:43 Xedos 6 touring car kit for sale built up, shout.

 

I wish Hirst would come back.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I absolutely love these, great work Doug_Gongle.

[dugong]

I absolutely love these, great work Doug_Gongle.

They drive floaty. If you're ever over seeing your dad, come to Peebo and I'll throw you the keys.

[Station]

I always liked the styling because at least Mazda tried to be different. There's the faintest strain of Jaguar MkII in there. It seems to divide opinion - which is more than can be said of a lot of contemporary Japanese and German shapes.  The grille doesn't bother me that much - at least it gives the front end some definition. It manages to look distinctive and bland at the same time.The surviving car which Matt Neal didn't bin ended up on sale in the States for $28,000 if memory serves.

It looks like instead of deleting it on the CAD model (which they should've done) they scaled it 10% by mistake! The rest of the car does look nice though.

[inconsistant]

Movement of jah people.

[dugong]

Movement of jah people.

Nah, the Mazda Diaspora Super Binge was a 2.5-litre.

 

A man in the pub told me the timing belt replacement is a PITA.

He's right - although it's non interference, which is nice.

[Jim Bergerac]

Nice buy. I've always liked these, Mazda seemed to go through a bit of a weird period in the early nineties. The print ad for them always sticks in my mind for some reason:

[dugong]

I've always liked these, Mazda seemed to go through a bit of a weird period in the early nineties. The print ad for them always sticks in my mind for some reason:

Mazda was weird - that's why I was drawn to its stuff back in the day.

[barefoot]

I pronounce it Zeee-doss

& I've heard that Depth of Field, if you're in the know - is pronounced Doff

as in, 'That's a nice doffy shot there'.

[dollywobbler]

Lovely. Well bought.

[Tamworthbay]

It's a product of its time, the grill looks a bit odd as it was part of the 'how small can the grill be' fashion as opposed to today's 'how fucking stupidly big a bit of cheap chicken wire look alike shit can we glue on the front of this Audi/ merc'.

 

Top buy

[Brodders]

Very nice. I have only ever seen one of these before, which was a burgundy or dark purple one that was owned by someone a street away from my primary school.

 

Needless to say, having not seen one for so long, I had forgotten they existed, so it is nice to see that one has been picked up by someone on here. Along with some great photos too.

[saucedoctor]

That is very jolly. Is that the Miller Cycle engine, or was that the other Xedos?

[dugong]

That is very jolly. Is that the Miller Cycle engine, or was that the other Xedos?

The 2.3-litre Miller was the Xedos 9, m9.

 

What a lot of the PH crowd don't get is that the supercharger was used as a scavenging air pump to boost fuel economy, rather than improving performance.

A Miller Cycle Xedos 9 is barely faster than a 6 but gets better mpg despite being a longer, heavier and more powerful car.

 

9 SEKONDZ 2 SIXTY IZ WEL GAY M8 DUZ ANY1 DO REMAPZ

[xtriple]

I was a car salesman for Mazda at the time these were current, we were all sent on a three day course to be taught how to say the name properly: KooSayDos.

 

I kid you not...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well, maybe about the three day course

[barefoot]

Shame they never sent Ford twats on a course to tell them how to pronounce Ka