Of course, no one is buying a 2.0-liter Mazda 3 to drag race, so this is fundamentally a compliment to Mazda for doing such a good job disguising the car's modest output in average driving.

Stephen Edelstein January 12, 2022 Comment Now! The Mazda 3 is currently available only as a five-door hatchback or four-door sedan, but recent patent filings hint at a possible coupe version.

The vestigial rear seats of most sports cars are of little use to anyone, so Mazda added a pair of rear-hinged mini-doors when it designed this successor to the rotary-powered RX-7. The idea was ...

With Toyota and Mazda making their agreement a year later, the Mazda 2 became a Scion. Toyota's ultimately dissolved Scion brand, a youth-focused make, lacked a four-door subcompact.

But I had a five-door Mazda 3 with an automatic transmission and the 2.5-liter motor, also shod with winter tires, during a huge northern Michigan snow storm last winter, and it handled itself ...