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Quote, originally posted by Salsa! »1- Ford should stick to trucks, they are good in that field!2- GM should stick to cars.....3- Chrysler should stop manufacturing and selling cars, but just come up with their great designs and sell them to the other car companies....SO TRUE my friend! Though I must admit, I'm not a fan of Chrysler's designs even...that Crossfire has to be one of the fugliest things on 4 wheels...IMHO anyway...

If the Mazda 3 had been out when I went car shopping I probably would have bought it. Personally I would prefer the Mazda 6 with a V6, black and tinted sweet looking car.

Quote, originally posted by Celtic_Curse »If the Mazda 3 had been out when I went car shopping I probably would have bought it. Personally I would prefer the Mazda 6 with a V6, black and tinted sweet looking car.Make it the five door version and I'm sold!

I actually just test drove all of the Mazda 3's (the S Sedan, I Sedan, and S Wagon) last Saturday. After seeing all of the commercials and reading several positive reviews, I was stoked about actually getting one. None of the the 3's impressed me. The handling was subpar in comparison to the Elantra or even a new Civic, and the power just isn't there for something that supposedly has 160hp. It feels like it's creeping off the line, and you don't feel any real torque until at least 5k rpm. And this was with the S model...the 2.0L found in the base trim package is worse than a Kia Spectra. Like other people have said though, that Mazda 6 is something to write home about.

Quote, originally posted by trdvibe »well, i had a 00 cougar and it was fine. no real probs except it lacked some power. i like the mazda's. they did an excellent job with the marketing, design, and overall quality. Knew there was something I liked about you. I had a '99 Cougar With a CAI and Borla dual cat-back exhaust