[Tzfardaya]

Hey, I like commercials... but the Blue Oval and Silver M have started to split ways. Ford divested much of their shares in Mazda in the last couple years.. IIRC the 2011 series Mazda2/Ford Festiva was one of the last vehicles they co-designed... and even those two cars share very few parts.

I recently picked up the 2011 Mazda2 (Late May/Early June) and while the mileage doesn't match what you'd get with their skyactiv rigs, It's still fairly good while still being a very fun car to drive... (I'm taking corners with minimal body roll and no tsc activation at speeds that would have flipped my '96 blazer)

Since I'm still not a very good ecodriver (like to play in traffic FAR too much...) my mileage isn't the greatest, even though every tank of gas I've put through this car has been above epa rating.. First mod I'm planing to make to this car is a belly pan, bottom of this car is wide open... I've already got an idea of how to work the pan to allow easy access to the oil filter without having the access panel break the lines of the pan...