Hello from Southern Califonia

[Slow Paul]

Hi all, My name is Paul (obviously) and I am a new Mazda2 owner. I bought the car almost two weeks ago. I traded in my beloved MINI Cooper that served me very well for nearly 8 years for my sweet Touring model. Even though it was tough to say goodbye to my MINI, I must say I am very happy and satisfied with my 2.

While I was a MINI owner I took quite a liking to autocross and track events. I reveled in the fact that I had a slow MINI amongst a slew of Evo's, S2000's and MS3's. So I am hoping to get my 2 around some cones soon and work my way up to the track again.

I'm not new to automotive forums/cars in general, so I'll avoid asking all the noob questions. I hope to learn a lot as well as get to know all of you in Mazdaland.

-Paul

 

[gvblake22]

Welcome!
Did you get the Sport or Touring? Manual or Automatic? What color? May I also ask what you paid for it?

 

[Slow Paul]

I got the touring model with the 5 speed manual. I really enjoy the feeling of changing gears on my own, so no automatic for me. I ended up paying a hair under 16k out the door with 0% APR and no payments for 3 months. Good stuff.

 

[gvblake22]

I got the touring model with the 5 speed manual. I really enjoy the feeling of changing gears on my own, so no automatic for me. I ended up paying a hair under 16k out the door with 0% APR and no payments for 3 months. Good stuff.

Nice, nice, and NICE. I'm looking at the manual touring myself too but I've always driven automatics. I'm just turned off by the seemingly out-dated 4-speed auto, but I still have to test drive this little sucker, so we'll see. Glad to hear there are still good deals to be had on this thing though.

 

[Slow Paul]

I'm still amazed on how impressive this little car is. The shifter feels great and the power is on par if not a little better than my previous car. If you drive the manual, you'll get it, it's that fun.