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Fellow ‘21 Mazda owner here! Mine’s a 3 hatch with a 6-speed! Been super happy with it and your videos were part of my choice! Manual is no Civic Si manual but still feels pretty good and it’s been easy to learn as a new stick driver. Revs drop really naturally with the NA 2.5, and much prefer its power delivery to a 1.5/1.6T. The parking brake thing is actually kinda handy with the stick, tho. Drove mine from San Francisco to Seattle and it was a great highway cruiser. Super quiet, nice safety tech suite (manual still gets radar cruise!) and I averaged 37 mpg. Totally with you on the infotainment/cabin simplicity. Just a few months and I’m already super used to it, tho my center console and airbag cover also have a few scratches.
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@garrettw99 THANK YOU! I hear so many reviewers bitch and whine and complain about “the AnCiEnT, dAtEd, oLd 6 SpEeD aUtO” when Mazda still programs it beautifully and it returns competitive (if slightly lower) performance and fuel economy. Also means it doesn’t gear hunt all the time like a 9 or 10 speed. Could an 8-speed deliver better 0-60 and mpg’s? Sure. But the Mazda 6-speed auto is still perfectly fine for getting the job done.
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Absolutely agree! Fellow Mazda3 owner here! Mines a ‘21 with a manual, though.
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@houseofhas9355 Marketing may be part of it and I think the dealer network is another. Mazda’s dealer network is much smaller than, say, Honda or Toyota. In some areas, like LA metro where I got mine, there are plenty of Mazda dealers, but in other areas, a Honda or Toyota dealer is more likely to be nearby when a Mazda dealer is like an hour away.
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