Originally posted by MrFatbooty
Are you freakin kidding me?
Yes, the FD was sold here from '93-'95. Mazda stopped selling it here because it would have had to update it to OBD-II emissions for '96, update it to 1997 federal side-impact standards, and too much warranty work was being done on it that not all of the dealer techs could even perform. So since it wasn't selling so well to begin with and a bunch of federal standards would have needed to be met to keep it legal for sale in the US and the cars were costing Mazda a bunch of warranty work, they pulled it from this market.
They sold it in Japan all the way until the 2002 model year. In 2003 Japan brought its emissions standards for new vehicles up to similar levels to the 1996 standards for the USA.
so basically....car looks good, car is fast, but car is a pos to keep.