We aren’t even any great fans of the way the Toyota’s engine sounds either, with the Mazda offering the better experience to the ears. But there is one area where both these sports cars score big. They’re both huge fun. That means you can push them And, in a good year, Mazda’s new and highly praised Miata can only expect to bring in half the sales it would have received in 2006. The winds have shifted, unequivocally. Boomers are getting away from the sports car and there is no one to fill the void. The final professional sports car race-weekend of 2016, the Pirelli World Challenge season finale at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, added to the season’s Mazda race win and championship count. After two races each for Touring Cars (TC), Touring Car A (TCA The 2017 Mazda6 Sport – the base model – costs $21,945 For $550, you can add Mazda Mobile Start, which allows you to start the car with your smartphone. Stepping up to the Touring trim will cost $24,195. It comes standard with dual-zone automatic The $4,400 Sport Package adds 17-inch BBS forged alloy You can tell the clutch loading has been tuned and honed by Mazda engineers who I personally know love working on this car. And then there are the lines. Tom Matano, who penned the design of The large doors are rather heavy and long, so one must be mindful in car parks. Boot space is generous at 810L with the third row stowed flat, or 230L with it in place. Undernearth sits a full-size spare tyre, albeit steel in our Sport spec. Mazda claims .
The new Abarth 124 Spider. To the untrained eye, the Abarth 124 Spider looks like a sports car that shares nothing with its donor car, the Mazda MX-5. Yet, in reality, the performance focused Fiat is built in Hiroshima by Mazda, so while we can quickly put The Mazda 3 has always had a hard job standing out in the medium Inside there's an upgrade in materials for the switches and dials, the head-up display (fitted as standard on Sport Nav cars) is now in full colour, there's a heated steering wheel However with Mazda boasting a growing market share in the UK and increasingly popular models with the superb MX5 sports car, revised Mazda 6 saloon and the CX5 crossover, the 3 has the best opportunity to capitalise on its expanded talents. Watch this (Read more about how we rate cars.) MORE: Read our reviews of the 2016 Mazda CX-9 and the 2017 Toyota Highlander the features are unavailable on the base Sport model. Mid-range versions get blind-spot monitors, while the top trims add a bundle .
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