1992 Mazda Eunos Presso from Australia and New Zealand - Comments

10th Apr 2008, 04:19

"Very badly designed vehicle"

What things have gone wrong with the car?

Waterpump blew at 141,000km.

Inner CV and drive shaft broke.

The seams in the leather seats kept coming apart more and more.

Car juddered heaps while driving at high speeds (despite all the tyres etc having been done).

Trans died at 154,000km (had it mended and then sold it shortly after)

General comments?

This car went well for the first 6 months, but after that it was problem after problem.

Transmissions in these vehicles are too small for the V6 engine, as I was told by an expert. They have the same transmission as a 1.3L 323.

Any work to be done on any part of this vehicle's engine is very costly, as the engine is really hard to work with.

Very cheaply made vehicle.


11th Apr 2008, 09:27

What do you expect with a high mileage, 16 year old car-it has probably had a hard life!!

The Eunos is a very good car, but yours is very old and tired.

Why did you buy it??!


11th Apr 2008, 09:43

I think you are mistaken; if it is a V6, then this is a conversion and not a standard model.

Transmision no doubt would be butchered on to fit a V6 and would probably not have coped. Was this a rover engine?


12th Apr 2008, 03:37

These cars did come out with a 1.8L V6 so the car definitely wasn't butchered, if it had a Rover engine I doubt it would've even seen 100,000km. I don't believe Mazda and Rover ever had a partnership, Honda and Rover did. Unfortunately I think this car came used from Japan so mileage may have been falsified as well as it probably wasn't serviced while it was there.

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