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Review: 2010 MazdaSpeed3
Most cars today avoid doing anything terribly well so as to avoid doing anything terribly badly. Then there are Mazdas. I love my Protege5. The agile chassis is a joy around town, BUT refinement and...
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Review: 2011 MazdaSpeed3 Take Two
The regular Mazda3 is already one of the best-handling choices in the small car market and you can get it with either a revvy little two-litre engine or a torquier 2.5L mill with 167 horses. For a...
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Review: 2013 Ford Focus ST
When you’ve reviewed over 600 cars, few new ones surprise you. With the polished road manners and granitic structure of a far more expensive car, the 2012 Ford Focus was one of the few. But its...
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Generation Why: California Dreaming – A Hot Hatch Comparison
If the first half of my automotive life was informed by Honda products, the second half was largely colored by “Sport Compact Car” magazine, which I still consider to be America’s finest automotive...
View ArticleNew Mazdaspeed3 Speculated For Frankfurt Debut
Fans of the Mazdaspeed3 may soon rejoice, as speculation points to a new version of the high-performance hatch debuting in Frankfurt this September. The new Mazdaspeed3 – Mazda3 MPS in Australia – will...
View ArticleWhere’s Mazdaspeed? Is Mazda’s Premium Push Stifling Performance?
My, how time flies. Nearly half a decade has passed since Mazda, undoubtedly an automaker that believes in performance, last offered a Mazdaspeed product. Not since 2004 and 2005, when 5,142 Mazdaspeed...
View ArticleDon’t Expect a Return of Mazdaspeed
These days it seems as though every automaker, no matter how small, has a performance division on hand to offer up the occasional heart-pounding model variant to be coveted by enthusiasts. However, it...
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