Mystery IX

[AWDBOB]

Everyone, convince him to sell me his 5sp swap!

[ScHpAnKy]

I'm okay with my iX coupe

[cwatt]

interesting!

I don't really like non-sunroof cars but that has to be a pretty rare combo in NA. :)

A slicktop iX is exactly what the doctor ordered IMO. If you need the awd, you likely live in a climate that experiences winter (i.e., snow), in which case a sunroof is the least of your concerns. In fact, it would be a benefit not to worry about leaking.

[lambo]

I spent most of my day arguing with idiots about iX's...

[nando]

A slicktop iX is exactly what the doctor ordered IMO. If you need the awd, you likely live in a climate that experiences winter (i.e., snow), in which case a sunroof is the least of your concerns. In fact, it would be a benefit not to worry about leaking.

meh. one of my favorite things in the winter is to open the sunroof on a sunny, crisp, cold day. plus, we still have this thing called summer. :p

[cwatt]

meh. one of my favorite things in the winter is to open the sunroof on a sunny, crisp, cold day. plus, we still have this thing called summer. :p

Haha. Fair point, and I do know what you mean about the sunny, crisp days. I've done that once or twice myself.

[cwatt]

I spent most of my day arguing with idiots about iX's...

What was the argument?

[lambo]

What was the argument?

Arguing about the production values of 88 iX's and the fact that they were only 2 door manuals in the US market.

[nando]

is that why you asked for those production figures?

there was 1 auto produced for NA in the '88MY but it was probably for demonstration. Canada also got 4 doors instead of 2 doors.

[lambo]

is that why you asked for those production figures?

there was 1 auto produced for NA in the '88MY but it was probably for demonstration. Canada also got 4 doors instead of 2 doors.

Yeah I was just curious because some of the numbers in your posts didn't add up to me

[nando]

what posts?

most of the production figures previously posted online were all wrong. Some people still think they only made 500 ix's total..

[lambo]

what posts?

most of the production figures previously posted online were all wrong. Some people still think they only made 500 ix's total..

Yeah I agree with you.

Here's what I was confused by:

In this post you say all of these numbers are US numbers (http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/show...5&postcount=23)

However, in this post (http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/show...66&postcount=1) you say that this 6346 number is for all of North America. This is what confused me, does North America include Canada? Because if it does then it doesn't make any sense because if you take the US production numbers from the first referenced post you get: 1715 + 2797 + 977 + 857 = 6346 so it would be as if Canada didn't get any '88 iX's which can't be true.

Now, my thought (and you can probably tell me if I'm right or wrong) is that the US production numbers are actually North America's production numbers, including Canada.

This makes much more sense to me because if the US production values are in fact correct, that means that out of the 2,095 2 door manual iX's sent to the US, 1,715 (82%) were from '88 leaving only 380 to be split between 1989, 1990 and 1991. If the US production numbers actually included Canada it would mean that there would be a split in the 1,715 number between 2 and 4 doors, making it much more reasonable.

[nando]

sorry, the numbers include both US and Canada. there's no breakdown between the two, except you can see which ones go to Canada because they are 4-doors. Also there were a handful of automatics for the Canadian market. So not all of the 1715 '88 cars were 2-door manuals. All of the US cars were, but the Canadian cars were 4-doors and some were automatics.

confused yet? :p

[lambo]

confused yet? :p

Beyond so haha...

I just couldn't believe that people thought there were <500 88 iX's in the US...

[nando]

yeah, shit, for 10/87 the parts car I had alone there were 386 in the same serial # range.