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Old 04-23-2010, 03:12 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Lots of Mazdas deliver really poor gas mileage. Maybe it's just the engines we get in the US, but it seems like they're tuned for Zoom-Zoom, and not putt-putt.
Yeah, that's my feeling as well. I like to compare Mazda to Pontiac in terms of they're target audience. I would look at the Mazda 3 mini wagons at the car show and like what I saw until I looked at the MPG figures. ... I just looked at the base figures of a 2010 Mazda 3 mini wagon. It's 21/29 *with* a manual tranny. That's terrible. You'd think they'd offer a thrifty-miser mode that delivers 25/35.

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