> On Mar 9, 2023, at 6:31 AM, Comcast <[email protected]> wrote: > > Love Mazda3. Spent a week with one when I wrote about their unique engine > technology. Driving that little honker was a hoot!
I’m very pleased with it. Olga has a 2013 (2nd gen), and my only real complaint was the automatic transmission. I test drove a 2023 (4th Gen), and you can only get the manual transmission with premium trim, which seems to focus on features that insulate the driver from actually controlling the car, which is antithetical to why I want a manual transmission. I hate that rather than a parking brake lever it has a parking brake switch. Damn it, if I ever need a fool proof way of applying the brakes, I don’t want anything more complicated than a direct cable between me and the brakes. Or, for that matter if I need to rotate the car 180 degrees in its own length while traveling down a dirt or gravel road … This is a 2015 hatchback with the 2.5l motor and 6 speed, and it had just under 64K miles. This morning’s fillup netted me just over 31MPG in a combination of mountain and highway driving, vs 27ish in the 2007 Civic and 25 in the Miata. The motorhead in me is curious about how the car would do at 13:1 compression if tuned to run on 100 octane fuel. However, I am committed to not spending any money on gofast parts that aren’t replacing something that was already worn out. I am curious though, how the laptimes in it will compare to my miatas. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from ret4est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
