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Originally Posted by pauldun170
Despite the fanboys RX-7 was a POS.
You would be posting up how you loved it but you were always sinking money into it. Lets not forget that for the most part of the decade the RX-7 was a bit of a dog unless it had the turbo.
Taurus SHO didn't show up until the end of the decade and there was no way you'd find a used one before the end of the 80's. Remember the SHO was just about DOUBLE the price of a mustang (points though for putting it on your list. Didn't think you'd list it because of the styling: Body cladding on a first gen Taurus)
Seriously lets think about it.
1981-1989
New car @ same price point as a Mustang 5.0
or a used car available in the 80's (so that excludes cars sold in 89 and even 88)
What cars (besides the RX7?)
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Plus one!
Mustangs of the 80s sold in the millions for good reasons. they were affordable, good looking, fast, comfortable and for the time, refined.
Rx7s in the 80s were not very refined either. Sure the motor was smooth, but they would leave a pool of oil everywhere they went, and the turbo model, which was still slower than a 5.0 mustang, cost twice as much to buy and twice as much to maintain. On top of that, Mazdas build quality was pretty crappy(don't even mention the cost of replacement parts back then) before ford bought them.