by "DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
Published 09/13/2017 at 18:47
by "DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
Published 09/13/2017 at 18:47
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Were these any good? I’m fantasizing about what it would’ve been like if Mazda had stuffed the Mazdaspeed6 engine and drivetrain into these wagon bodies...
"dogisbadob" (dogisbadob)
09/13/2017 at 18:59, STARS: 1
No, they are not. The 6 wagon was only available with the V6, which had some issues on top of just being a hard-to-work-on transverse V6! They made it V6-only because they were insecure and jealous that it would steal sales from the Tribute.
I might buy another car sin a few months to a year, and I really wish they made 4-cylinder 6 wagons!
But yeah I totally agree, a MS6 wagon would be awesome as fuck! Too bad they never made a wagon, or even a hatchback version! (At least the HB was available with both the I4 and V6)
Car and Driver made a Mazdaspeed 5, the MS3 turbo in a 5! I’m sure people have done both that and the MS6 wagon conversion you’re contemplating. The forums are your friend :o)
"Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap" (ddadragon)
09/13/2017 at 19:10, STARS: 1
I’ve wanted to do that sort of a swap but time, money, availability of mazdaspeed 6s are a hinderance to such a thing.
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
09/13/2017 at 19:36, STARS: 0
My buddy had one. 2007(?) six-speed. It served him pretty well for a couple years and about 100,000 KM. I think he was around 225k km when it started having issues. Brake callipers seized in the rear, then he had a coolant leak due to the plug where the block heater should’ve gone getting corroded or something, and then eventually the plug went AWOL, leading to a rubber expansion plug which also went AWOL, a failed attempt at installing a block heater (he got the wrong one in the right box at the dealer and cross-threaded stuff badly) and another expansion plug went AWOL, coupled with a horrible overheating incident. This lead to dragging it home at the end of a strap behind my MJ, down a gravel grid road because we didn’t want to get busted on the highway (turns out we would’ve been legal) for like, 45 miles, until we hit a river valley in the dark, he passed me, he hit the ditch, I hit it twice after getting spun around and then yanked out and back in when the strap caught... It wasn’t great. That wrapped the strap around his wheel, torn his CV boot off and we think bent the axle, screwed up his alignment badly in some mysterious way (nothing looked bent but he had about 20° of toe-in on that wheel). We fixed those, and took it on a 1500 mile road trip a few months later, over the course of which it started burning oil badly. Like, clouds of blue smoke rolling past you at a stop sign badly. 0- “I’m a 2-stroke” in a day. He had enough, and traded it in on a year-old but new 2015 Colorado four-banger/6-speed absolute base model. Dealer gave him $500. We saw it a month later at a used dealer (not many manual Mazda6 wagons in mauve in rural MB, and it still had a sticker he put on it), asking $4500. It for sure was not worth that much unless the fixed stuff, which I can’t really see them doing at that price. But not my circus, not my monkey...
It wasn’t a bad car. Easily most of the issue came about from abuse, tons of gravel, lots of winter, no local car washes, etc. Decent amount of space, the rear seats folded flat and weren’t a bad place to sleep (so I’m told... I had a tent), he hauled an 80-lb dog around in it all the time... Generally got just shy of 30mpg. He liked it well enough until it started coming apart.
"wafflesnfalafel" (wafflesnfalafel1)
09/13/2017 at 19:47, STARS: 1
that Car & Driver Mazdaspeed 5 was cool.. I really liked the looks of that first gen 5 and the NA MZR 2.3 is a good motor, but just not enough for that vehicle without some boost.
"DAWRX - The Herb Strikes Back" (karsonkinja)
09/13/2017 at 21:14, STARS: 0
Man that’s too bad. But it does sound like it lived a hard life.
"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
09/13/2017 at 21:33, STARS: 1
It’s effectively a Ford Fusion wagon, just with more expensive parts. Frequently the Ford parts will fit and are a lot cheaper. We were looking at swapping out the oil burner for another engine, and the ford engines ran about half the price of the Mazdas at the local wreckers. But then he decided he wanted something with a warranty.
"FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com" (alphaass)
09/13/2017 at 21:37, STARS: 0
It was a great idea but IIRC they never quite got it running right.