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There's been talk of a Mazda/Toyota collaboration for a while now, and the result has finally been revealed. The car will be manufactured by Mazda in Mexico, but sold wearing a Scion badge in its respective dealerships. Engine is a 1.5L Skyactiv with 106hp, mated to a 6-speed manual or an...

Apparently parts catalogs have gone out, so we're now getting some juicy details about the new 2. This info is from a US catalog, so fingers crossed that it might actually be coming to America. Some info: -16 inch wheels are an option, but tires are still 185 width -No sun roof option...

I hate chrome, and the Kodo grille surround has been bothering me. I think it looks a million times better as a glossy black.

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So I've noticed that when I try to do a 1-2 shift rather quickly around 3k rpm, sometimes the gears will grind and the transmission will refuse to go into gear. At first I thought I was accidentally lifting the clutch too early, but it happened again today and I was absolutely certain that my...

I currently have the Racing Beat axle-back and love it, however it's not doing me any favours for power. I want to go to a local shop and get the midpipe replaced with a straight pipe to cut out the secondary cat and hopefully free up a couple horsepower. What I'm debating is whether or not I...

Finally got my lights and installed them! I'm very happy with the results. The lens of the new tail lights is a much darker red than OEM, which makes for a sexy look. And the JDM-style turn/reverse light relocation looks devious! My car looks angry now. Turn signal and reverse lights are Stage...

I don't have a front license plate, but I am toying with the idea of getting the CS offset plate kit so I can affix a JDM plate (see photochop in first pic below) because I am a shameless JDM fanboi (see second pic below). I dunno, maybe it's a retarded idea, but I kind of like the look...

http://www.fk-shop.de/en/Lighting-Tuning/Headlight/Headlight-Daylight-Set-suitable-for-Mazda-2-black.html I wonder if these would simply be plug & play for our north american cars.

Took my car into the dealership today for an oil change, and found out that both my rear struts are leaking and require replacement. I could hardly believe it, since the car is barely more than a year old, and doesn't even have 10,000 km on it yet. The service guy said that this is a common...

As much as I wanted to get the CorkSport exhaust with racepipe, it was cost-prohibitive for me. I instead opted for the Racing Beat axle-back, and I love it. But I'd really like to go catless on the cheap, so I've been considering going to a shop and have them straight pipe the whole section...

CorkSport SRI (and now Racing Beat!) Sound Test Did a little 0-80km/hr pull to try and capture the sound of the SRI (approximate, I wasn't paying too much attention to the speedo). Also did a little handling testing for the torsion bar. I love the sound of the SRI (it's even better IRL), and...

I just finished installing the CorkSport SRI, and am so far very happy with it. It took me quite a bit longer to complete the install than I had anticipated, but I'm a pretty big noob when it comes to working on engines, so I took my time with it to make sure I didn't screw anything up. I...

Corksport Rear Torsion Bar: 1 inch thick, $100 Racing Beat Rear Torsion Bar: 1.5 inch thick, significantly longer, $190 Is the extra price worth it for the larger bar? People seem pretty happy with their CS bars though, so maybe it's unnecessary.

I'm just curious if anyone has bought the B-Spec kit from Mazda. I was excited when I first saw this announced, but I have never heard of a single person actually getting it. Is there a reason why...

MOUNTED: Sparco Pista, BFG g-Force (pics) Wheels: Sparco Pista, 15x6.5 Rubber: BFGoodrich g-Force Sport Comp-2 (cabpatch)

I need some wheels for summer, but I want to be able to run the stock tires for now until I can afford better ones. A lot of the wheel options out there are 7" wide. Is this too extreme for 185 width tires? Any danger in running this setup?

So I was just playing around on Tire Rack today, and was completely baffled when I discovered that they force you to buy $220 TPMS sensors with wheels that do not fit the OEM ones. A friend of mine suggested looking up the wheels on a car that does not require TPMS in order to circumvent this...

For the first couple thousand kilometres I had my 2, the engine kind of sounded a bit strained and uncomfortable around 3,000 RPM and higher. Now I've got a little more than 3k km on the clock and the engine sounds quite different. Much quieter at higher RPMs and doesn't sound like it's about to...

Took a few videos last night when I decided to go out and have some fun with some very rough and snowy off roading. In real life, things were much more dramatic than they look in the video. I had plenty of oversteer on several turns, and had a difficult time seeing through all the blowing snow...