Recent content by GDB

Hi Eric, I'm selling right now to get down to two cars between my wife and myself (of course, to be able to store the MSP over winter, I had to have another driver, which is a really nice '89 BMW 325iX (all-wheel drive) that can easily serve year-round). This will let us pay down some home...

I own a near showroom condition MSP in Titanium with just under 20K miles (never driven over winters) currently that I'm going to be advertising within the next week. You won't find one nicer regardless of price unless you are looking for a bunch of mods. It's up in southeastern Washington state...

I was an '89 computer science grad from WSU and am now in the Tri-Cities. Bought an 03.5 titanium grey MSP in Kirkland in October as a daily driver (BMW 2002tii as nice weather ride). Forever WSU football season tix holder so my MSP will be up there Saturdays only next Fall. Have not ever...

MSP Pro, This is quite an unlikely coincidence. My step-daughter races at TC Raceway in their normal "Nascar weekly series" in the mini-stock class (it's a 4-cylinder early 80's Mustang, those and similar vintage Toyota Celicas were the only ones in the division last season). She also runs as...

I had the E30 M3 for 11 years and it had less than 80K unmolested miles when I sold it, which explains how I was able to finance almost nearly all of a brand new MSP. It was a tough decision, but with the 2002tii I had two good weather cars and not a daily driver. Since we rarely get snow...

Took many months to find the 2002tii. Drove it 1300 miles home from Boulder, CO in May of this year. Newly rebuilt with 9.5:1 pistons, pollution control deleted, overdrive 5-spd from a 320i, Recaros from a 320i sport, Bilsteins, H&R springs, down to metal restoration by a shop in L.A...

For those of you who contributed to my "Blue vs. Gray" thread last Friday, I bought the titanium gray last Saturday (production #1426 already entered in that thread). I was concerned based on magazine road tests that the ride would be too stiff for my wife, but it's not anything as extreme as...

Newf, You do a great job of "capturing the essense" of the titanium. You're selling me on it--I was probably already 60% of the way there to start. But, we'll make that final choice tomorrow on the lot. All the input from everyone has helped. I also agree that the darker rims are just right...

Black Majik, Is that your titanium MSP? If so, thanks for posting them. Those are the pics (from another thread) I emailed to my wife a few days ago that made that color her first choice. But we're still waiting to see if one "wows" us more than the other when they're side by side. The blue...

I certainly wouldn't mind a slightly different shade of gray from the RX-8 as long as it was distinct enough from silver. The RX-8 was rather dark, but I just prefer it to not have too much "metallic" characteristic. One of my favorite hues was the completely flat "aviator grey" that Audi did...

Well, it does a great job of hiding the kind of light colored "desert dirt" we get around here. Actual mud (we get little rain of course) is certainly a different story. Silver also hides dirt well and of course "blah" colors like tan and gold. Even bright red isn't too bad although I...

I didn't want to divulge "leading" information, but I bought a very nice fully restored 1974 BMW 2002tii in bright (Inka) orange a few months ago. I just sold a gorgeous white '88 BMW M3 a couple weeks ago. These both being nice-weather drivers, I need something I can drive daily and over the...

Yep, titanium. The only way I've even been able to see what it looks like other than in pictures is to see the RX-8 in that color at the local Mazda dealership. So actually seeing both side by side in person on the "right car", could certainly be a deciding factor. Thanks, Gary

Tomorrow I'm traveling across state and will be driving home a new Mazdaspeed if all goes as planned. I'm still going back and forth between blue and gray. I won't give you any overt hints on my preferences which could taint replies. I'm just curious about others preferences. A few bits of...

Market saturation, etc. It's a great and underappreciated car for sure. But Mazda overproduced for the demand with the 2003.5 version and now has hundreds (a thousand?) around the country that they have had to discount way below what they were originally intending I'm sure. There are other...