All-New Mazda3 In ‘Yet Another Stylish And Practical Mazda’ Shock
This is the brand new Mazda3, in both its hatchback and saloon body styles. We reckon the front end is easily the prettiest of any compact hatchback on sale today.
Designed to “enable people to make the most of their natural sense of balance,” we imagine the press release might have been directly translated from the Japanese. Because we have no idea what that actually means.
Apparently, though, the new Golf rival has been engineered so that the basic driving attributes like accelerating, turning and braking all feel “completely natural.” We hope that means they’re direct and precise, with good feedback at the wheel and seat.
More details will be released later, at which point we’ll update this story, but for now all we know is that the handsome devil will use all three of Mazda’s current internal combustion engine ranges: SkyActiv-G petrol, SkyActiv-D diesel and the intriguing new SkyActiv-X, which we’ve driven and should offer diesel fuel economy with vastly lower particulate emissions – a best of both worlds scenario for the planet.
More to follow.
Comments
What a beaut ….mazda may aswell be the only maker who has nailed each and every model in its lineup….awesome
Looks a tad volvo-ish
Beautiful.
It looks great. The proportions of the hatchback remind me a bit of the Alfa-Romeo Brera (which is a good thing), except it actually starts.
The huge C-pillars could be a bit questionable in regards of visibility, though.
Nice, but the sedans doors look like they’ve been bashed in. Maybe it’s just the reflection?
I was hoping for the headlights to look more like those of the CX5, but I can’t argue about how it looks, it does look amazing, especially the saloon has improved massively.
It’s kinda disappointing that they ditched the multilink rear suspension in favor of a twist bar. That was one of it’s key attributes which made it such a good little thing to drive
This interests me more than the new 911
I like it… thx Mazda
Oh yes it does look good but… why people are laughing with the size of the Audi-grills if you see this?