MP3/MP5 National Meet

[big_ben]

I just got a reply from Mazda! I posted it on a new thread "Mazda's reply to MP3 club and meet". Everyone read Antoine's previous post and their reply. This could attract the aftermarket to our cars like flys on sh*t! Especially with so many P5's out there. So everyone start emailing them once a week untill it gets going!!!!!!

 

[R_Man_5K]

I would love to get this going...I am in the Chicago Il area and am willing to travel up to one day to get to an event. Dallas is cool with me. I grew up in east Texas....

Thanks for the support on this. I run http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/mazdaprotege5
and was am very excited that lots of people are intrested in doing this......

R_Man_5K

 

[YellowMP5]

I am in the same club with keepinitup. I helped to setup the club and now we have 15 protege5/mp3. I might be of some help guys.
Email me for info and tell me how i can help, besides calling and emailing mazda.
Hey mazda, were in south florida but we will drive to Alaska or even hawaii (ok, ok )
to the national meet. Ford holds its mustang celebration every 5 years in charlotte, north carolina. (i am a proud mustang owner too). THOUSANDS of people come to it.

 

[KurtMP3]

Ive said some of this in the response to the email thread Ben started but for here ill repeat it...OK seeing the response I think I know where Mazda sits with us...I have a feeling Mazda NA wont set it up but if we get numbers and people interested and plan a good amount of it that theyll get involved once dates and places are set with events/whatever the heck else we would have there...I think we need to get some serious numbers (I have I think 5 people into it up in Toronto in our protege club) that we need to plan where and when on our own...Once we have this set up and some other details then Mazda will likely see our commitment and then jump on board...Anyone thought of what kinda things we would have at our meets? Im new to this but suggestions would also help get the ball rolling...Im figuring obviously maybe a Friday-Sunday thing...sometime in the late spring-summer...Someone mentioned North Carolina - I like that idea...Saturday a day to just show your rides off, some night time events (who knows what?)...what else would we have? Get some aftermarket and car parts manufacturers to show their crap on these days....Ideas people! Think of em and lets brainstorm...Once we have some ideas then we can plan...Then we can look into places that can hold us, Hotels we can book, etc etc...If you have ideas or are thinking of anything put it down! Lets put our heads together and think...Cuz Im new to this like I said and I wanna see what we're thinking...OK thats my very long 2 cents for now!

 

[70]

I think it would be fun to have a meeting, but seriously, going to the factory is not going to include the cars.

All new Protege's are built in Japan.

A Mazda NA trip would be better. If they don't set it up, it would send a message if we all SHOWED up to the Mazda NA headquarters...Take up the whole parking lot.

Would that be a message that Mazda could see?

[ 12-14-2001: Message edited by: ChrisS ]

 

[mx6929]

No folk mentioned about Mazda Raceway-Laguna Seca?

 

[cfbjr]

It would be cool to see if something could happen around the Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca. The Monterey is probably one of the most beautiful parts of California. I have been to Laguna Seca a few times and it is really cool. The only problem is the $$$ it would take to rent that place and a time when it is available. Since it is a world-class track it gets booked for the year very quickly and obviously the regular race series like CART, ALMS, Vintage, SCCA and NASA get priority over everything. I know that for reg fees for SCCA road racing it costs double when the race is held there. It is premium land and location. Plus there are TONS of safety things that would have to be done to satisfy the people eho run the place and we may not even get the opportunity to run our cars on the track. The RX-7 club does a thing called Sevenstock in Irvine, CA and they have a huge turnout.
Here's a link to an article about it: http://rotarynews.com/ss4/
It seems this takes place at Mazda's R&D center in Irvine. And they had some serious Mazda people there. If anything maybe we should all go next year and "crash" their party a little bit! It would be sweet to see a huge line of MP3's and P5's rollin' in there!

 

[KurtMP3]

Thats not a bad little party for the RX-7 crew...it was a cool aritcle to read as well cuz it seems like they started just like us..it mentioned how alot of people who had never met and only knew each other threw the net got to meet each other and how the day built out of basically what we're trying to do

 

[YellowMP5]

Well nothing is going to happen if people don't wake up. There are 442 members on this forum. I don't see 442 messages in this thread. Come on people, wake up and smell the rubber burning from hundreds of mp3/mp5 in one place. Get off your ass and call Mazda

 

[MP3TLH]

I know I haven't been doing my part, but is this topic dead or is there still any interest?

 

[KurtMP3]

I know im still interested!

 

[Antoine]

Argh...They never called me back...(not surprised)...bet they still haven’t checked out the site yet!

Bottom-line is they don't take us very seriously. Damn bean-counters/executive’s. Not to worry...we have almost 500! people here..doesn't anyone have connections with Mazda or other clubs/events (** Contact Me if you do!**)...we need all the help we can get to jump start this baby!

I call on all MazdaMP3/Protege5.com members...we have to pull it together!

 

[aphat01mp3]

just trying to keep this fresh on you guys minds