My slave cylinder went out at 168,471 miles.
My alternator belt came off at 176,846 miles.
My mazda isn't like any other one out there. We have come to call it the Baja Mazda. Suprisingly enough it handles realy well in the mud because of its weight and the front wheel drive. I have pulled many of trucks out with this car.
As far as mods go a new cd player was the first thing to go in along with some MTX 12s powerd by a 1,000 wat pioner amp. The next thing was a 300W power inverter placed neetly in the dash under the new cd player. Then I custom fabed a light bar out of angel iron and bolted it on where the sun roof closes. On top of the light bar I have four 100w kc lights ot light up the trail. Now no off road vehicle needs to go without a cb radio that was the nest to go in along with a 4 foot whip.
I don't think he understands the use of a Mazda. From my experience they are good little cars. But if your going to Baja it I would suggest that you get something with four-wheel drive or all wheel drive. Old Subarus are great for this kind of thing and you can pick them up fairly cheap.
The mx6's that I have seen are more like race cars. I had on up to 60 in third gear on a dirt road. They have a lot of power, and with 220 horse I don't think it is good to be used for baja. Let the trucks do that, Mazda mx6 is a racer.