Mazda CX3?
01-04-15, 06:41 PM
#32
New 2016 Mazda CX-3 Crossover Road Tested in Australia
While the Mazda CX-3 may have the same basic platform and running gear as the new 2 supermini, you’d be hard pressed to tell.
It’s only when you climb aboard and see the nearly identical interior that you begin to notice it – the design and materials are the same, even though the latter includes few soft-touch surfaces.
The CX-3’s first video road test was conducted in Australia, by CarAdvice. As with all recent Mazdas, all reviewers rave on about the pretty styling, road manners and efficiency. All these parameters are still relevant with the CX-3, as it reportedly drives as well as we’ve come to expect from the brand, it looks (subjectively) better than the CX-5 and being supermini-based, it still returns good economy numbers.
The only niggle that’s pointed out is that the materials don’t feel so great on the surfaces you don’t normally touch, like the top of the doors or lower down on the dash. You can easily overlook this, though, since the design is quite fluid looking and pleasant.
It’s only when you climb aboard and see the nearly identical interior that you begin to notice it – the design and materials are the same, even though the latter includes few soft-touch surfaces.
The CX-3’s first video road test was conducted in Australia, by CarAdvice. As with all recent Mazdas, all reviewers rave on about the pretty styling, road manners and efficiency. All these parameters are still relevant with the CX-3, as it reportedly drives as well as we’ve come to expect from the brand, it looks (subjectively) better than the CX-5 and being supermini-based, it still returns good economy numbers.
The only niggle that’s pointed out is that the materials don’t feel so great on the surfaces you don’t normally touch, like the top of the doors or lower down on the dash. You can easily overlook this, though, since the design is quite fluid looking and pleasant.
01-07-15, 10:44 AM
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01-07-15, 10:45 AM
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01-07-15, 12:10 PM
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01-07-15, 03:13 PM
#38
Pole Position
This is seriously premium looking vehicle! Much better design than Mazda 3, much more mature design. Acura would only wish they could design something like this.
What if Mazda can pulloff something like semi-luxury or final step before getting into premium segment kind of thing in US? Would be interesting. Yeah Acura is sort of like that but its customers are more of Honda people.
What if Mazda can pulloff something like semi-luxury or final step before getting into premium segment kind of thing in US? Would be interesting. Yeah Acura is sort of like that but its customers are more of Honda people.
02-14-15, 02:49 PM
#39
Mazda CX-3 New Driving Spot Plays To Its Strengths
In the land of the small, non-premium crossover, the Mazda CX-3 is a bit of a fresh breath of air. It's dynamic styling makes it one of the best looking cars in its segment.
Imagine for a second the world in which a small crossover buyer lives in. It's a young world, there's plenty of fun stuff to do and plenty of places to go where you can go about having a very active life style. It's only natural to seek a car that would represent you, isn't it?
As you can see from the video, the Mazda CX-3 has plenty of visual pop, especially in motion and especially when you've got decent size wheels on it. There isn't really any bad angle from which to look at it and with its cool KODO design. Plus it has its innovative SKYACTIV technology and MZD-Connect infotainment system that Mazda keeps bragging about.
Bottom line, a fun clip, apart from the annoying 'zoom-zoom' we're set to hear every time Mazda decides to share something with us.
The good news is that the CX-3's global launch is approaching this spring for both Europe and Japan. US buyers will have to wait until the summer though.
Imagine for a second the world in which a small crossover buyer lives in. It's a young world, there's plenty of fun stuff to do and plenty of places to go where you can go about having a very active life style. It's only natural to seek a car that would represent you, isn't it?
As you can see from the video, the Mazda CX-3 has plenty of visual pop, especially in motion and especially when you've got decent size wheels on it. There isn't really any bad angle from which to look at it and with its cool KODO design. Plus it has its innovative SKYACTIV technology and MZD-Connect infotainment system that Mazda keeps bragging about.
Bottom line, a fun clip, apart from the annoying 'zoom-zoom' we're set to hear every time Mazda decides to share something with us.
The good news is that the CX-3's global launch is approaching this spring for both Europe and Japan. US buyers will have to wait until the summer though.
02-15-15, 08:41 AM
#40
Lexus Test Driver
I saw it at the Philadelphia Auto Show. It was roped off, so you couldn't see the interior. I thought it was pretty nice. The pix of the interior look like the Mazda 3, which Car and Driver just gave some pretty high praise for (try and find another car in the class of the 3 with HUD).
02-15-15, 10:21 AM
#41
I saw it at the Philadelphia Auto Show. It was roped off, so you couldn't see the interior. I thought it was pretty nice. The pix of the interior look like the Mazda 3, which Car and Driver just gave some pretty high praise for (try and find another car in the class of the 3 with HUD).
02-15-15, 10:25 AM
#42
Lexus Fanatic
Although Mazda products, in general, still seem to be sport-oriented, I'm glad to see that, at least in ads like that, they have stopped (or at least cut back some) on trying to sell vehicles with that silly "Zoom-Zoom" theme.....a theme which was actually getting pretty long in the tooth. A far better theme, IMO was the older "Kansai" engineering slogan, which is actually a Japanese term for the emotional feel that one gets from the tactile driver-oriented steering and road-feel that Mazda used to be noted for. In fact, for years, they were known as the "Poor Man's BMW", despite many of their sedan products (except for the 929) being FWD instead of RWD.
02-15-15, 04:49 PM
#43
Lexus Test Driver
03-25-15, 10:10 PM
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