It's no sports car, but the Mazda5 has enough 'zoom-zoom' mixed with practicality to keep us entertained.
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The RX-8 is an inviting car-small, sporty, fun to drive. It's not overly endowed with power (238 hp with a manual transmission), but with only about 3000 pounds to motivate, that's plenty. It's somewhat lacking in low-end grunt (only 159 lb-ft of torque), but
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The RX-8 is an inviting car-small, sporty, fun to drive.
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The RX-8 is an inviting car-small, sporty, fun to drive.
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If you're looking for an inexpensive sports car, but need room for child seats or extra passengers, the RX-8 is worth a look.
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Mazda does some soul searching. The second-generation gets more power, room, and style.
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I recently rented a Mazda 3 5-door hatchback while on vacation in Spain. I arrived at the rental company's parking garage late at night, started the car, and retrieved from my briefcase the Mapquest directions I had printed before I left Ann Arbor.
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The e-mail popped into my inbox one morning, buried among the intraoffice notes and the poorly worded Nigerian ads for male enhancement. There wasn't much to it--no real introduction and no greeting, just a simple question. Is there anywhere in the United Stat
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The Mazdaspeed 3 is the hottest sport compact to roll this year. Check the facts: 263 hp, a fortified chassis, and a racy cabin for a base price of $22,835. Radar guns see a demure econobox. The reality is that affordability, practicality, and stealthy velocit
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The CX-9 shares the same gaggle of parts as the Ford Edge, but it's been engineered as a seven-passenger vehicle, so the Mazda's wheelbase has been stretched 2.0 inches and the vehicle is 13.9 inches longer overall.
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Do you have the patience to hear about one more SUV? How about one of those annoyingly nebulous SUV/crossover/whatever vehicles? At the risk of having you turn the page right now, we'll tell you that the new Mazda CX-7 is an SUV-like thing that tries to be spo
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The Mazda Miata is currently the most popular road-racing car in America, so it's no surprise that Mazda quickly turned its new model into a racer to compete in the professional MX-5 Cup, which pits identical MX-5s against each other and offers enough prize mo
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You're speeding up a mountain pass in a fast car, racing uphill, exploring an unfamiliar route as you cross a great natural barrier. You're not just driving, you're traveling, and it fills you with a sense of solitude and purpose. Such fine thoughts are in sho
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In XXL America, bigger might not always be better, but it's certainly more popular. Can Mazda's mini minivan survive here?
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Lapping Hawaii's Big Island in the invigorating, redesigned roadster--no speeding allowed.
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New for 2006, the Mazda5 is a multi-faceted people mover based on a stretched Mazda3 platform. The innovative six-passenger design of this scaled-down minivan is geared towards young, active-lifestyle buyers who demand exceptional features and flexibility in a single, high-value vehicle.
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The Mazda 6 stands out in the faceless sea of midsize sedans, with its dramatic styling hinting at the car's involving, fun-to-drive character. Mazda offers more body styles for the "6" than are available from any other midsize car, each engineered for the driving enthusiast.
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Our year with the Mazda RX-8 was like spending time with young children: deeply rewarding most of the time but occasionally very frustrating and annoying.
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Keeping the mini in minivan.
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Is the Chevy Cobalt finally a small GM product that needs no excuses? We pit it against our favorite competitor, the Mazda 3, to find out.
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Mazda says the third-generation Miata will be the best yet. But what would you expect them to say?
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The cute and sporty Mazda Miata has been the quintessential budget roadster for fifteen years. With the third generation debuting in Geneva this month, Don Sherman looks back on the man who started it all.
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With a hotter turbo and all-wheel drive, the Mazdaspeed 6 is more potent but not perfect.
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Mazda dives head first into the aftermarket with an arsenal of hot rx-8 performance parts. Can they compete with seasoned aftermarket veterans?
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Getting in touch with its masculine side.
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