We had one of those, a base model, with a 2.4 four cylinder engine. It had dual counter-rotating counter balancer shafts like Mitsubishis. When we retired it, it had 240,000 kilometres on it. I'm sure we'd still have it today except that another family member, whose name I shall not mention had a problem while driving. The fan belt broke, and it overheated. She didn't stop because she just wanted to get home. Eventually the cylinder head cracked, and more and more antifreeze had to be added until the end. There were no used cylinder heads for it anywhere. On to the wrecking yard. Unfortunately, because it was a damn fine automobile, easy to work on, and a joy to drive.
I saw one in the street a few weeks ago, this are pretty rare nowadays. My friend didn't understand why I was interested in an old Mazda van, Can't blame him.
Used to see the MPVs all over Seattle; they and the Ford Aerostar were very popular. This was the era when the Mazda B-series pickups were Ford Ranger-based. Airbags seem to first appear on or around 1988 on the Chrysler products; in '93, I test-drove three cars, a Mazda Protege, which had those automatic seatbelts, a Honda Civic, w/ driver's side-only steering wheel airbag, and a Saturn SL-2, which had driver and passenger-side airbags. This seemed to make a sizable difference in insurance costs: Mazda, most expensive; Saturn the cheapest. Fun to see some older examples still running around there!
I remember there were a lot of MPVs when I was in RCAF at CFB Comox on Vancouver Island 30 years ago. People loved driving in the mountains on the Island.
@@Chuck59ish Not yet, but we've had some near zero nights, and lots of rain, so I'm afraid it's just a matter of time. I take it you're not on the Island any more.
@@dlittlester I got out of the Air Force back in 1991, my late son got cancer in the Fraser Valley and passed away in 1993, I could handle being there anymore, so I came home to Saint John, NB in 1995 and been here ever since.
I always liked the MPV is such an interesting cross between van and suv sort of a predecessor to some of the vehicles you see being sold today with the sort of “off road style” crossovers and what not.
There's one by me with a 5 speed and Westfalia pop up camper top like the old vw buses for $2500. But someone spray painted it and looks like they offroaded it unfortunately. So I imagine its pretty beat up inside too. Its on fb marketplace here in PA.
Oh my God I remember this MPV my mom's friend have these it was very cool. The one she have wasn't 4WD but it was cool Edit:18v? That's very specific number.
I remember when they came out. Nice vehicles and we're all over the East Coast. Good on snow.
I passed my driver’s test in our 1988 929. Seeing that 18 valve V6 takes me back!
I always thought a Mazda mpv was a great cross between van and SUV, before SUV's had caught on and become ubiquitous.
I'm from the UK and have never seen one of these,a radical design though and expect it's quite versatile, thanks for showing us.
They were built on the pickup chassis which made them a very good little off road car
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_MPV
Based off a large Mazda car.
We had one of those, a base model, with a 2.4 four cylinder engine. It had dual counter-rotating counter balancer shafts like Mitsubishis.
When we retired it, it had 240,000 kilometres on it. I'm sure we'd still have it today except that another family member, whose name I shall not mention had a problem while driving. The fan belt broke, and it overheated. She didn't stop because she just wanted to get home. Eventually the cylinder head cracked, and more and more antifreeze had to be added until the end. There were no used cylinder heads for it anywhere. On to the wrecking yard.
Unfortunately, because it was a damn fine automobile, easy to work on, and a joy to drive.
I saw one in the street a few weeks ago, this are pretty rare nowadays. My friend didn't understand why I was interested in an old Mazda van, Can't blame him.
Used to see the MPVs all over Seattle; they and the Ford Aerostar were very popular. This was the era when the Mazda B-series pickups were Ford Ranger-based. Airbags seem to first appear on or around 1988 on the Chrysler products; in '93, I test-drove three cars, a Mazda Protege, which had those automatic seatbelts, a Honda Civic, w/ driver's side-only steering wheel airbag, and a Saturn SL-2, which had driver and passenger-side airbags. This seemed to make a sizable difference in insurance costs: Mazda, most expensive; Saturn the cheapest. Fun to see some older examples still running around there!
Nice van put a 6 inch lift on it and a little bit aggressive tires would look awesome thx for sharing
No wonder it has a nice sound... Muffler delete usually does that 😁
I remember there were a lot of MPVs when I was in RCAF at CFB Comox on Vancouver Island 30 years ago. People loved driving in the mountains on the Island.
I'm in Parksville, Charles.
@@dlittlester Got snow yet?
@@Chuck59ish Not yet, but we've had some near zero nights, and lots of rain, so I'm afraid it's just a matter of time. I take it you're not on the Island any more.
@@dlittlester I got out of the Air Force back in 1991, my late son got cancer in the Fraser Valley and passed away in 1993, I could handle being there anymore, so I came home to Saint John, NB in 1995 and been here ever since.
@@Chuck59ish Sorry about your son. I tried once to go back to Ottawa, but I missed the mountains and ocean too much.
I always liked the MPV is such an interesting cross between van and suv sort of a predecessor to some of the vehicles you see being sold today with the sort of “off road style” crossovers and what not.
You know it reminds me of the ranger based ford aerostar
I had a 1998 loaded and it was a great car!
In 2020, cars like these are so cool. Everything is a compact suv these days and none of them have the robustness of 90’s cars and older.
Groovy people: good
Groovy brake rotors: less good lol
I’ve seen several of these back then not seen much nowadays. They looked cool. Especially it’s north-south engine direction not the fwd type. :)
Sweet ride. 😀
If your breaks look like the rings of Saturn, it's time to change them.
I believe the engine is a 3 liter
Very cool ride!
They exist? I've never heard of them or seen one before, they must be very rare, you are very lucky to be standing in one's presence.
There's one by me with a 5 speed and Westfalia pop up camper top like the old vw buses for $2500. But someone spray painted it and looks like they offroaded it unfortunately. So I imagine its pretty beat up inside too. Its on fb marketplace here in PA.
it is a 3.0. as soon as i saw it i said beware of that transmission!
Surprising it lasted that long...
I've always wanted to have one of these, but they are so hard to find
Cars and bids has something similar right now maybe a Toyota
@@gsppuffer oh yeah but I prefer us market
@@shept.7736 shit just checked stupid van sold for 11k
@@gsppuffer lol yeah, I also think that the us one would be much easier to legalize and emissions and stuff
Oh my God I remember this MPV my mom's friend have these it was very cool. The one she have wasn't 4WD but it was cool
Edit:18v? That's very specific number.
My 87 rx7 has those same style buttons on the heat/ac.
Cool 😀
It should be a 3.0 liter J series engine in that MPV.
That's the 3.0 from the 929
3.0 v6
If not bothering could u possible go read my comment on your glc video would be appreciated