Nothing. Quality seems outstanding.
This is a car for people who like to drive. I find myself taking the long way home, particularly if the road has lots of curves and hills. Very quick, lots of torque at all speeds. It is not a car for a slow relaxing Sunday drive, but rather a vehicle that will demand that you focus on what you are doing and repay that effort with precise performance and excitement. It seems to beg you to rev it higher.
Wow!
You're telling us that a Japanese car, made in 2005, is better than an Italian car, of similar concept, made by FIAT 26 years earlier!
Wow!
Whoever would have guessed that?
Ford now owns Mazda. So just wait awhile and it will have all the usual Ford "bs" problems. You will see...
"Better than my 1979 X-1/9 in countless ways"
- Anything would be better than a Fiat X-1/9!
Well, given Ford has owned Mazda for at least 20 years now I'm still waiting for the the problems to show up.
The Mazda3 is built on the same platform as the Focus, yet the Mazda is an incredible car and has unbelievable reliability vs. the horrific Focus.
Sometimes such sharing actually is beneficial. Too bad GM can't get it right with Saab.
Ford does not OWN Mazda, they have a 1/3 share of the company, which gives them permission to use brilliant mazda frames (the 3 and 6 for the fusion and EURO focus (which is a much better car then our focus) ) and for mazda to use some good ford motors like the 2.3 and cyclone.. in the end, ford will eventually die, and mazda will live on as the greatest car maker of all time, next to ferrari.
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