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Forgotten Sporty Cars: Mazda 323 GTX

March 13, 2010

Welcome back to Forgotten Sporty Cars at The Garage! In this space we recall an era where small, economy car-based based vehicles were sold with zippy styling. Whether there was any substance to the sizzle we’ll leave for you to judge.
1988-1989 Mazda 323 GTX

I would be willing to forgive a lot of people for assuming [...]

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Autocross In Car from a rotary powered Sprite

February 21, 2010

Long time readers will recall the video we posted years ago of a 3 rotor Bugeye Sprite attacking an autocross course. I still go back and visit that clip often, as I just love to hear the wail of the wankel!
Today we have Jeff Kiesel in his Bugeye that has a turbo rotary that puts [...]

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Review: 2010 Mazda CX-7 i Sport

February 17, 2010

In the business of building and selling family haulers, the last decade will likely be remembered by the crossover replacing the SUV as the vehicle of choice. Rewind five years ago to see what Mazda had on offer, and you may be shocked to find no crossovers at all-just the MPV minivan and the Ford [...]

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Turn Two: Mazda6i

January 7, 2010

What is Turn Two, you ask? A new feature here at The Garage, where another editor gives his take on a car previously reviewed here. It is our hope that you, the reader, enjoys and benefits from more than one point of view.
Our first look at the Mazda6 came last winter, when the car [...]

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Review: 2010 Mazdaspeed3

December 27, 2009

When I caught my first glance of the new Mazda3 and saw that ridiculous “smile” from the front grill, my reaction was to slap my forehead and wonder aloud what the heck Mazda was thinking. When the Mazdaspeed3 arrived at my door, someone remarked “Oh, it’s the smiling car.” After living with the MS3 for [...]

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Getting wet in the 2010 MazdaSpeed3

November 17, 2009

Every year at Test Days, there is one car that surprises me. Several of our journo friends have driven the 2010 Mazdaspeed3 on the track and were blown away by how capable it was and yet somehow I was unprepared for how incredible this car is. In fact, the Speed3 exhibited so much grip and [...]

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Best sounding race car ever: Mazda 787B

October 21, 2009

When most of us think of the best sounding race cars of all time, we think beyond the recent past. Cars from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s typically are the ones we think of. When we began this topic there was a number of people who threw out a more modern car: Mazda’s 787B endurance [...]

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2010 Mazda3 brings on the smiles

April 21, 2009

Whenever a car manufacturer launches a new version of a popular model, they must hold their breath while they wait to see how the public reacts to their bread & butter. Mazda has had a string of successful revamps that have been successful in the showroom, so we were eagerly awaiting the launch of the [...]

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2009 Mazda Tribute: Golden Girl

April 6, 2009

Says the teenager:
This car feels really old.
Without immediately jumping on her for being spoiled by a different car in the driveway each week, I had to think about the statement for a moment. To be fair, we had just come off a week with the rather sexy CX-7 so the Tribute certainly did seem [...]

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2009 Mazda CX-7 GT: More March Break road tripping

March 29, 2009

For March break this year, the Grant family did things a bit a bit differently than we have in the past. We went somewhere for a change! In fact, we actually took two road trips. First we piled 4 of us into the 6 passenger Mazda5 for a blast to Niagara Falls and then we [...]

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