Archive for the 'Mazda' Category

Review: 2010 Mazdaspeed3 is sitting on the bubble

Last summer, our man Damon Lavrinc drove the then-brand-new 2010 Mazdaspeed3 around California’s legendary Laguna Seca Raceway and then Caramel Valley’s world-class back roads. And he loved it. I mention this because we’re sure that under similar, near-ideal conditions, I would have been nearly as smitten. But reality has a funny way of tossing […]

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

2009 LA Auto Show Preview: Mazda2 to make its North American debut

Mazda has finally made it official this morning: it will be bringing its B-segment Mazda2 to the North American market late next year. As you are likely aware, the current generation Mazda2 has been sale in Europe and elsewhere for two years, but we’ll be seeing it here for the first time at the […]

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

First Test: 2010 Mazda CX-7 i Sport

The last time a Mazda CX-7 stopped by the Motor Trend garage, it found itself in a three-way dance against the Subaru Forester XT and Volkswagen Tiguan (”Turbo Chargers,” September 2008), where it finished second, behind the Forester. The appeal of a gas-thirsty turbocharged crossover is limited, however, and so when Mazda gave the CX-7 […]

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Tokyo Motor Show 2009: Mazda RX-500 still awesome nearly 40 years later

One of the coolest concept cars here at the Tokyo Motor Show isn’t even new. In fact, it’s almost forty years old. Originally displayed at the Tokyo show in 1970, this Mazda RX-500 Concept features styling similar to the legendary Ferrari 250 GTO Breadvan, gullwing doors that swing forward, and a 491cc rotary engine just […]

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Car Review: 2009 Mazda MX-5 Miata is still the drive of our childhood dreams

Remember back when you were a diapered enthusiast-to-be and you weren’t allowed to venture beyond the end of your family’s tree lawn? The sum total of your ‘driving’ experience was probably a Little Tikes Cozy Coupe. If you were like us, your toddler self was all big dreams, bustling feet and arms akimbo, twirling around […]

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Mazda MX-5 Superlight leaked ahead of 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show

With an endless string of concepts cars peppered across these pages, we often find ourselves saying, “Yeah, I’d drive that.” But with the Frankfurt-bound Mazda Superlight concept, we’re saying “Hey – I wanna build that!”
Conceived and created as a way to celebrate the MX-5 Miata’s 20th anniversary – along with showcasing Mazda’s focus on lightweight […]

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Review: 2010 Mazda3 a tale of two Mazdas

We can’t talk about the new Mazda3 without lovingly gushing over the old Mazda3. Introduced in 2003 and produced until this year, the first generation was a segment buster. For about the same coin as its competitors, the Mazda3 gave you more: More sportiness, more refinement, more space and, being a Mazda, more reliability. The […]

Friday, July 31st, 2009