Mazda3 2009, pending the next coming ...
Despite persistent rumors of an upcoming unveiling of a brand new Mazda3 fully revised and rethought, the new 2009 model has just be presented to us. However, despite the fact that the present generation of this car draws to a close, Mazda was immediately believed even good to bring him some significant cosmetic changes, a plan to make us better wait by the arrival of the model 2010.
When I saw for the first time, the first pictures of the new Mazda3, such was my surprise to find myself in front of a car that seemed to take the aggressive style of the Mazdaspeed3, including the presence of new shields front and rear more muscles, among other associates has new alloy wheels in five-spoke 15, 16 or 17 inches. New lights rear position, allow us to better distinguish the different versions available, the GT model which includes lights Hanabi kind. Finally, we shortened the door-to-false front and rear, with the intention of offering a longer wheelbase and especially to improve the behavior of the Mazda3, already very tough.
On the inside, there is little change, except the addition of new combinations of fabrics and colors, the presence of a rear-seat center armrest with more widespread and new multimedia connections available.
Cote mechanics, we always find the same trio of faithful Mazda3 engines, are the four-cylinder 2.0-liter 148 hp and 2.3-liter offering 156 horsepower. The Mazdaspeed3 version still available in 2009, benefited from the four-cylinder 2.3-liter turbocharged 263 horsepower. Manual boxes five and six speeds remain the catalog, even that of a four-speed automatic.
The current generation of the popular Mazda3, including soil Quebecois date of 2004. Des their output, and they knew a success in sales that quickly EXCEEDED the most optimistic predictions, and rightly so, because these last offered a style, conduct and especially the specifications of the toughest and placing its main rivals, including the Honda Civic, on the defensive in its niche compact car has front wheel drive, extremely popular in Quebec.
For most manufacturers, the changing of the guard of their different ranges of vehicles, is a generally every four years and it is undeniable that our valiant Mazda3 is due for an overhaul. We all know that its successor is about to be we unveiled. Three golden opportunities, available to it, to be unveiled to the general public. In the beginning of October, the Mondial de l'Automobile in Paris could be his springboard, but wait one more month, the Los Angeles Auto Show. Finally, it will be perhaps the prolific Auto Show in Detroit in January, will have the honor to make us discover this second generation Mazda3, as expected, and it seems, would not be quilted to ...
