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    3 month old Mazda3

    can you say oxymoron?!
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    Real-world gas mileage in the 3

    try having a 35.7 gallon fuel tank like my F-150. nearly $70 to fill up at the current CA gas prices...and I only get 14 - 17 MPG. ...damn, I need to get me a 3s...
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    Looking to buy...

    where the hell are you people getting your info from? Nav system DOES NOT require the safety package. It requires a choice of one other package, which means either Sport Package, ABS/Airbag Package, or HID. Now, if you get the HID package, you must get the Sport Package and ABS Package. Go...
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    Lemon Law

    read the law yourself for your state. go to www.lemonlawusa.com and select the appropriate state.
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    Im going synthetic, whats the best?

    I agree with a lot of what you said carperformance3, but the whole 3 months/ 3000 miles thing is bogus and made up by oil manufacturers. i don't know about your shop, but whenever I get my oil changed on my F-150 by my dealer, they put a sticker on the window that says I need another oil change...
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    How much are we paying for oil changing?

    those are some expensive o-rings. i am the R&D Manager at an O-Ring company and even the best quality o-rings for service in motor oil we sell for 16 cents. We sell to directly to large companies like Ford and distributors, but $6 for an O-ring is highway robbery even when it is being resold...
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    Im going synthetic, whats the best?

    there are more opinions on this than you can shake a stick at. this post is just my opinion and you are free to disregard everything I say. i don't know about this forum, but on www.f150online.com this question comes up weekly and there are peope that advocate a whole forum just for oil since...
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    possible recall???

    better to have the slave cylinder go out under warranty than later on. that gets expensive. s***, while they're at it, if they'd do it, you might want to have them replace the master cylinder too. they are both involved in the same hydraulic system so I wonder how they know it is the slave or...
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    Mazdaspeed 3

    you guys are forgetting the taxes that the Brits pay that would make it $32,000. If you take away their 19% sales tax and 22% import tax that they pay which is in that price, it comes down to more like $22K-$23K. Not bad. It is still an economy car on steriods, but for the price, power, and...
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    Finally some Mazdaspeed 3 info

    i don't know if i am reading your post correctly. are you saying that 18k is about $18K? if so, then you are dreaming. the exchange rate as of today is $1.762 per 1. As stated earlier by someone, 18K is about $32K.
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    Finally some Mazdaspeed 3 info

    there is a 19% sales tax on vehicles in the UK and they pay an additional 22% import tax. for the current Mazda 3 at say $16,000, they would pay an equivalent of $22,560. Taxes are a b****, but it ain't our problems, it's theirs. I'll let you do the math for the MazdaSpeed prices.
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    Mazdaspeed 3

    there's some info about the MazdaSpeed 3 out there. Here are some links: http://money.cnn.com/2003/12/22/pf/autos/mag0401_mazdaspeed_miata/ (about halfway down) http://auto.consumerguide.com/auto/new/reviews/full/index.cfm/id/38029 (read the "news" section)
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    Looked at a 3 last night - questions

    dealers often BS. if you do your research using www.kbb.com, www.edmunds.com and the like, you will probably walk in their knowing more about the car than they do. good luck.
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    Wrote moza with some suggestions. Do you agree?

    Macadonious, I'm not going to flame you beacuase you are entitled to your opinion. A word of advice from me, the Research & Development Manager at a high performance seals company, is that a good science is produced by a good question and a well stated problem. Instead of giving solutions, you...
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    deep sounding muffler...

    What brand is that muffler? It looks like a generic brand to me, but I could be wrong. It's good that it is stainless steel, but quality might be an issue. You never know with a generic brand.
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