1990 Mazda 626 LX review from North America

The collector pipe off the exhaust manifold nearly fell off, replaced it at 289000km. The muffler was shot so I put a performance one on, sounds beautiful. The catalytic converter was shot when I got it, I haven't had the money to replace it yet as I will need everything between the collector pipe to the muffler asap. A CV joint broke loose on me when I was up a mountain with a lady friend. (that was embarrassing)

This car is a dream to drive, even for a 15 year old car with 290 000km on it, it will still hit 200km easy. It is my first vehicle and I am abusing it to death, but hey, I only put $400 into, that's including purchase and repairs. This car is FAST and handles amazingly, with only cold air intake I dominated a manual 1987 CRX Si. I out accelerated it, beat it in top speed, and out-handled it. In fact the CRX lost control and went sideways on the road trying to keep up with me on a corner I had no problems with. I had it in economy mode, wasn't even on power mode or manually shifting it. I haven't lost to anything yet, including 1 5L mustang (very poor driver probably had something to do with it) and dozens of Civics. this car is also very good for rally driving suprisingly, going down old powerline access roads at 80 is no problem for this car... as you have read, I BEAT THE CRAP out of this car, yet its body is still perfect, paint still perfect. not a spot of rust, and interior is immaculate (i only paid $400 all together with this car because it was a gift from my parents, even after all this abuse my friends dad still wants to trade me his 84 trans am and give me $1500)