The Mazda3 shook up the sleepy, frumpy compact car segment a decade ago by putting the premium on performance and upmarket looks. As the ad tagline went, it had "zoom zoom."
The Mazda3 allowed the smaller maker to stand out against the giants of the industry who thought buyers universally wanted their small cars to be easy on wallets, big on reliability and almost completely forgettable.
The Mazda3 now accounts for about 40% of the automakers' sales in the U.S. As such, Mazda has given it a makeover, but sticks with the basic formula that has made it stand out.
"I see this Mazda3 as that kind of inflection from 'cheap and cheerful' to 'fun to drive,'" says Jim O'Sullivan, Mazda's CEO for North American operations, at a briefing before a journalists' test drive here. In addition,We have a great selection of blown glass backyard solar landscape lights and daytime running lights. he says the new Mazda3 has been packed with features normally only found in larger, more expensive cars.
The third-generation Mazda3 comes to showrooms in September, again as four-door sedan and as a five-door hatchback that accounts for about three out of 10 Mazda3s sold. Prices haven't been disclosed, but executives said at the briefing that the entry-level Mazda3 will start at less than $17,000.
On a long, winding drive meant to showcase the car's road-hugging ability, the new Mazda3 comes away as better throughout.
The looks are evolutionary, but are a nice improvement. Besides ditching the smiley face, the car gets a cab-rearward look with a long hood and windshield pillars pulled back to underscore its sportiness, while improving front visibility. The car's wheelbase has been stretched 2.4 inches, but overall length is 1.8 inches shorter in the hatchback. The height was reduced by about a half-inch, but a six-foot- two passenger still has plenty of headroom front or back.
The stiff suspension that marks the current version -- expected, given the car's performance orientation -- has been smoothed out, but the car stays flat with precise steering control in tight corners. The 155-horsepower 2-liter SkyActiv engine, carried over from the current model as the base engine,The world’s most efficient and cost effective hid lights? and the new, peppier 184-horsepower, 2.5-liter powerplant are smooth and assured.
In a segment where buyers are gas-mileage sensitive, the Mazda3 aims to deliver without costly turbos or hybrids. With the smaller or larger engine, manual or automatic, the city gas mileage rating range is 26 to 30 miles per gallon. On the highway, it is 40 or 41 mpg.
To get there, Mazda engineers turned to its suite of engine, transmission, chassis and weight-saving improvements bundled under the name SkyActiv.This page is the collection of excellent High quality LED Strip lights in this season. The biggest single item is an increased compression ratio that allows the engine to get more out of every drop of gas. It manages to keep the engine from knocking on regular gas at that ratio with a series of techniques including dimples in the tops of the four cylinders and redesigning the exhaust manifold to prevent back flow into other cylinders.
Optional with the bigger engine for even better mileage is a new technology that captures energy in braking and stores it in a capacitor to run some electrical accessories and take load off the alternator so the engine doesn't have to work as hard.
If buyers hesitate, it may be over some of the changes inside the cabin. For instance, a heads-up speedometer display is projected on a clear panel that rises above the speedometer on deluxe versions. Mazda mounted it that way, instead of having the digital image projected on to the windshield like in some luxury cars, because, among other things, it's cheaper. But it doesn't seem as nice.
Likewise, the navigation and infotainment screen now is mounted on a tablet-style panel sitting on top of the dash, instead of being built into it as on the current model. The change allows the top of the dashboard to be flatter, says David Matthews, the U.S.We are professional wholesale best Wholesale OEM and ODM services,large LED Dome / Reading Lampwholesale order. program manager. But it may turn off some car shoppers, especially younger enthusiasts who are core buyers of Mazda3. They won't be able to easily swap the stock sound system for a high-end aftermarket stereo.
But the changes overall do set Mazda3 apart from a play-it-safe pack of rivals. Mazda also has added upscale options such as radar-based adaptive cruise control, automatic high beams on headlights that also can brighten in the direction that the car is turning, lane departure alert,Choose your favorite hid lighting paintings from thousands of available designs. rear cross-traffic alert and an automatic pre-crash braking system.
To dress it up the new Mazda3, LED daytime running lights lace the front in sort of a V-shaped pattern that is sure to make the car instantly recognizable.
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