Mazda 3!

[Ryan1985]

My mum (not me, i'm toyota 4 life probably) is buying a Mazda 3. Has any1 test driven 1 and are they any good? Wot do u think of Mazda's in general? Are they reliable or wot?

Any comments would be much appreciated!

[Karma Supra]

Mazdas are fairly good cars... its japans ford.. its owned by ford.. they are good as new but don't wear the years too well.. things rattle break and wear out pretty quickly!!!.. the 2.5 V6 they have in several cars is possible the worst engine I have ever come accross!!!!

My probe is a mazda engine (its done 114K miles.. and is on its 3rd engine :o) (2.5V6 lol) mazda chassis.. built by mazda and badged a ford (its an MX-6)..

so I have had experiance with them.. The thing that really annoys me is the interior quality.. just feels... "flimsy" (for some reason the mk1 MX-5 seems to be built like the preverbial brick poo poo house)

tthey are not bad... but its not a toyota

I still lust after an RX-7... but the build and the rebuild-every-60K-miles engine puts me off :(

[jaxx]

nice but the mazda 6 is a beautiful car aswell

[Karma Supra]

nice but the mazda 6 is a beautiful car aswell

but it has "that" engine in it