It's weird we don't see the issue as much on the 3 which came after the cx5 initially, so it must be a first-run-type issue.
And who is "we"? From my "experience", working in a transmission shop in my area (Nashville TN area at the time) from 2008-2011, one of the most popular foreign transmission jobs were 1st gen (03-08ish) Mazda3s.
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