Comments on: Strong sales pave way for new Mazda3

By: Vid_Ghost

Vid_Ghost — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:20:47 +0000

I just sold my 08 mazda 2 and i really want one of these in black but the price is a little high for the base neo Auto… This is one pricy car when you can buy an I30 drive away for $19990 man and $21990 auto… cry

By: Deags

Deags — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:07:44 +0000

An interesting decent looking smiley faced non-Peugeot car at last.

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:58:03 +0000

the price increase happened before the model changeover

’09 plate stock went up $2K before this model arrived.
There was only one production month this year of the last model.

Everyones prices of imported cars is going up.
Mitsubishi has also increased their prices to name another one.

Falcadore,
True this model has more specs, but it needs it.
Satnav on the Maxx???
thats not bad then…..

By: ZoomZoom

ZoomZoom — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:46:41 +0000

$21990-$32950 is hardly pricing themselves out of the market considering honda has just released a 40k civic.

Oh and can’t wait to read tomorrows first drive CA. Specs make these car look very promosing

By: Autogyro

Autogyro — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:35:17 +0000

Blitzkrieg, the “smiley face” is a product of Mazda’s nagare design philosophy, and not merely because they were watching too many children’s movies.

It’s been mentioned often that in person, it’s harder to notice the grin. For one thing, people aren’t generally 1 m tall, where that last picture would dominate your vision. At eye level, it’s less noticeable. I plan to view the car in person before supplying judgement; I would hardly wish to reject such a competitively priced and specced car because it was smiling at me in a photo taken using a cricket bat as a camera stand.

By: blitzkrieg

blitzkrieg — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:59:18 +0000

that grill looks childish,like something out of the movie cars. it gives the impression that the designers ran out of ideas and just thought “i dunno lets just give it a smiley face”

By: rbb

rbb — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:56:20 +0000

with a big price up on the runout model they may have just priced themselfs out of the market as they did with the mazda 6! price going up sales going down! good looking car but at what price?

By: Falcodore

Falcodore — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:28:43 +0000

This new model will be priced a bit higher but aparrently have a lot more features than the outgoing model (bluetooth, satnav standard on maxx sport, sp25 models) and is dynamically superior to corolla so deserves to be number 1 in its class.

Seen a blue hatch driving down the hwy the other day (think it was a maxx sport), looked really good.

By: Shak

Shak — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:19:49 +0000

The new focus is out ‘next month’. I didnt know, but all in all it will be good for a smart company. Mazda deserves this and they should definetly do well.

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:32:27 +0000

The only problem with the current gen Mazda3 is that others notably the Focus and Lancer are starting to flog this for kit and price.

All the mazda needs to do is top up the kit, and away it will sail again.

Airbags???? not even the well kitted Lancer gets a fully complimented kit of them in the base model.

Just to note the new Focus comes out next month

Im surprised you havent already had a drive of one of these C/A.