LA Auto Show: Mazda2

Alex L. Dykes
by Alex L. Dykes

Want a slightly different flavor of Fiesta? The Mazda2 should fit the bill.




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  • JeremyR JeremyR on Dec 03, 2009

    Somehow I like the Fiesta's proportions and styling a little better. But maybe they're the same. I don't know. The look of Mazda's new smiling grille has not grown on me yet, but it's starting to annoy me less, so there's a chance that it could. Anyway, my aging `87 Accord may need a replacement in a couple of years, and I'll probably be looking at both these models when it does...

  • Demetri Demetri on Dec 03, 2009

    They raised the price of the 3 for the latest generation, so there should be plenty of room for this. The fuel economy should be pretty swell, also. I'm just sad that they haven't announced any plans to bring the 2-door here. The US release is coinciding with a global refresh of the 2, which is why it now has the new corporate grille. It looked better without it. This is also why there aren't any pictures of the interior for the US version. It's being re-done for the global refresh and it isn't finished yet.

    • DweezilSFV DweezilSFV on Dec 04, 2009

      OMG: much better. That's a damn shame. But even the refresh looks like an international design award winner compared to that Joker faced 3. And it doesn't look long enough to have allowed the stylists to pollute the design with those silly pregnant fender lines over the front wheel wells like on the 3, the 6 and the RX8. This is very nice.

  • Cprescott Fisker is another brand that Heir Yutz has killed.
  • Dwford Every country is allowed to have trade restrictions except the US.
  • 1995 SC Are there any mitigation systems that would have prevented this though? We had a ship hit a bridge in Jacksonville a few years back and it was basically dumb luck it didn't collapse. This looked like a direct hit.
  • Cprescott Oh, well.
  • 28-Cars-Later "The Chinese Ministry of Commerce claimed the Inflation Reduction Act is “discriminatory”"This what your mainstream social communism has wrought: a foreign power, major geopolitical rival and the #1 global industrial competitor cries "racism" when an act of Congress in any way presents a challenge - and the saddest part is there are Americans who will process this claim and agree if only in their own minds. To be clear, Wo xihuan Zhongguoren but the under 40yo PRC raised Mainlanders I've interacted with do believe they are a master race - but that's fine right?
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