What exactly is the Mazda Protege5?

What do you tell people your car is?

  • Station Wagon

    Votes: 5 4.3%
  • Hatchback

    Votes: 24 20.7%
  • Sport Wagon

    Votes: 85 73.3%
  • Sports Car

    Votes: 2 1.7%

  • Total voters
    116

chuyler1

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2013 CX-9
When people ask you what your car is, what do you tell them? I have trouble explaining it. . .

If I tell them its a hatchback when they see it they go "oh its a cute little wagon"

If I tell them its a wagon they say "thats too small for a wagon, its a hatchback"

So what do you tell people?
 
I would say it is a haychback since it is smaller then the sedan and the sedan is pretty damn small. When I park my sedan next to other cars that is when I realized how small my sedan is.
 
its a SPORTS WAGON, for the simple fact that it handles the best of any car Ive EVER drivin and it has four doors AND A hatch
 
That's why I have to get one and start a Hatchback revolution. I am WAY too young to have a wagon, sport or not..... :D
 
Sorry, the P5 is a wagon, period. A Z28 or an RSX is a hatch. Completely different. 2 doors vs 4, and the obvious slope of the 5th door makes a difference.
 
It's a wagon unfortunately. When I told a friend what I got and my friend told his wife what I got, she wanted to know what kind of "minivan" it was, and how many kids we were going to be hauling around in it. ouch!!!
 
my brother-in-law called it an "extended sedan". but that makes it sound like a limo.

but then my sister-in-law called it "spunky". i wanted to scream. that's the last thing i wanted, a spunky car.
 
It is a 4 door hatchback, the Ford Focus has both, a Wagon version, and the ZX5, which the hatch area is roughly the same size as our cars. not near as long as a wagon. Just because a car has 4 doors, does not exclude it from being a hatchback.
 

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Minivan? ouch.

The problem is, it is both a hatchback and a wagon at the same time...well its definatly a wagon...but the definintion of hatchback depends upon how old you are...

When someone says hatchback I think VW Golf and Honda Civic (not the sedan version). In this case it could be considered a large hatchback.

Some older people may associate hatch with an even smaller car such as the Rabbit or the Chevy Nova...if this is your definition of a hatchback, the MP5 is obviously larger and obviously a wagon.

Then there is the dispute of wagon. You can either think of a Ford Escort wagon, or a VW Jetta wagon in which case it matches pretty close. But then older people will have the mind set of a late 70s early 80s Caprice Station Wagon. <<shudder>>

So I thats why I think sport wagon fits well. Wagon puts the image of a larger 4-door vehicle with a door on the back (could open up like a mini van, or fold down like a truck). Then Sport takes that image and makes it smaller, sporty cars are generally smaller. When someone says sports car I think of the miata, mr2, s2000....If they were to say muscle car, then I would think Mustang,Camaro,Firebird.

So survey says....

We drive a sport wagon!

We must unite on this one...i don't want to hear the word hatchback again in this forum :)
 
I agree with sport wagon. this car handles just as or better than some $50k vehicles. therefore, sporty... :p
 
I still refer to it as a hatchback, for the lack of cargo space. To me a wagon should have more, without having to put the seats down.

But alais we can settle this by looking at the all mightly markers of the car.

Mazda:


Website

Highlight the link for the P5 and what do they call it....

SPORT WAGON

Ahhhh *covers eyes*

Anyhow, least its not what they refer the Matrix as now:Wagon/SUV mix.

heheh
 
SUW

Sport Utility Wagon, thats what they should call the Matrix...or Shit Ugly Wagon if you as me.
 
chuyler1 said:
So survey says....

We drive a sport wagon!

We must unite on this one...i don't want to hear the word hatchback again in this forum :) [/B]

Who died and made you god of the boards? Hatchback! Hatchback! Hatchback! Hatchback! Hatchback!
 
azeli73 said:
I agree with sport wagon. this car handles just as or better than some $50k vehicles. therefore, sporty... :p

I don't like to start controversy or piss on peoples parade, OK I can give a rats A$$ about feelings. :p But just because someone pays 50K doesn't make it a sports car! C'mon!
 
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