The paint on my Type R is quite frankly laughable in it's application... funny as was speaking with a body shop and was asking and they said the paint on Honda's for a few years has been poor. Time will tell the quality of this Mazda... however my old Mazda Xedos 6 was exceptional, I did 197k miles in that thing and not a spec anywhere... same with my 53 plate Saab Aero... nothing BUT the plastic door mirrors are terrible on Saabs all corroding after a few years. Seems we got superb quality and now it's like we're going backwards a little now... I looked under the body of my RX8 the other day and it's a rust fest everything corroded. Not a patch on the Saab or the Honda... then again might all just be surface rust but to me, it's not a good sign.
It's not just bodywork, the amount of corroded alloys... Mazda seem to be the worst with the worst corrosion in history. The guy who did my RX8's love Mazdas, he says they make up 20% of his repairs lol.
It's not just bodywork, the amount of corroded alloys... Mazda seem to be the worst with the worst corrosion in history. The guy who did my RX8's love Mazdas, he says they make up 20% of his repairs lol.
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