Your opinion is mute on this one. You are out voted about 99-1. The Nav is that way for excellent reason which has already been noted several times.
I tested out a 2010 Mazda3 Grand Touring
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Your opinion is mute on this one. You are out voted about 99-1. The Nav is that way for excellent reason which has already been noted several times.
Sway bars are stronger and handling is improved. Everyone who has driven the car has stated this. Nothing you are saying has any meaning you are just coming across as a hater with no meanful knowledge.
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we all want a small nav that we can hardly see, yes...lol...and can we add some more buttons to the steering wheel...lmao...
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and the front end...OMG...
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see that blue screen thats where the nav goes...sweet size...lmao...look at the vents in front of it...lmao
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Damn THAT is the nav screen....Ehh whatever. Maybe it's a voice system and you won't need to look at it much.
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they aren't even offering it as an add on...its strictly comes in the GT versions only...and its not an add with the GT...comes with it if you want it or not...
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that is nice ^^^^^
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To add my opinion as a "previous gen" Mazda3 GT owner:
I was at my dealer...as always...putting the car into service and went upstairs to their showroom and they had a 2010 GT 5-door in that really ghey blue and I opened up the door and thought "wow that feels just like a Matrix XRS." Seriously, the quality between the 2 cars is uncanny, then I shut the door and it felt exactly the same. At least with my car there is a significant difference where mine reigns supreme. The new BOSE stereo is nothing to write home about, I got the chance to crank it and honestly, my 7 speaker system sounded better. Idk if any of you have seen it without the nav but note the picture below and it's a waste of space. They could have integrated their whole trip computer into the stereo screen which I may add is at a terrible angle, if you're like me and "gangsta lean" on the center console with one hand at 12 when you drive then the A/C and radio screen is basically unreadable. Not to mention the car feels much smaller with that 2 tier dashboard thing.
The back seat is useless to me and they added those things to the window that make the actual window that rolls down smaller (see attached picture and black bar running up rear door window) which is a total FAIL in my opinion. Where I sit in either front seat there is little to no rear seat legroom.
The worst part about the 5-door is that Mazda seems to have added a button to pop open the hatch. Those of you with hatches know now that is extremely easy to open the hatch no matter how tall you are, but in the 2010 that hatch pop is just a rubber grip and they moved the button about halfway up between the Mazda badge and the bottom of the hatch so it makes you contort your hand to actually open the hatch. Not good at all.
Other than that the car is obviously uglier than the previous generation and the quality of door panels is much worse.
The up side is that it shed a bit over 900 pounds to go from our (in CA) 150HP/156TQ and pitiful 26lbs/HP to a very acceptable and faster 165HP/167TQ and almost 17lbs/HP!!!!
So that's my take, it is worlds faster but it has some...a lot...of tweaks to be worked out.
I was at my dealer...as always...putting the car into service and went upstairs to their showroom and they had a 2010 GT 5-door in that really ghey blue and I opened up the door and thought "wow that feels just like a Matrix XRS." Seriously, the quality between the 2 cars is uncanny, then I shut the door and it felt exactly the same. At least with my car there is a significant difference where mine reigns supreme. The new BOSE stereo is nothing to write home about, I got the chance to crank it and honestly, my 7 speaker system sounded better. Idk if any of you have seen it without the nav but note the picture below and it's a waste of space. They could have integrated their whole trip computer into the stereo screen which I may add is at a terrible angle, if you're like me and "gangsta lean" on the center console with one hand at 12 when you drive then the A/C and radio screen is basically unreadable. Not to mention the car feels much smaller with that 2 tier dashboard thing.
The back seat is useless to me and they added those things to the window that make the actual window that rolls down smaller (see attached picture and black bar running up rear door window) which is a total FAIL in my opinion. Where I sit in either front seat there is little to no rear seat legroom.
The worst part about the 5-door is that Mazda seems to have added a button to pop open the hatch. Those of you with hatches know now that is extremely easy to open the hatch no matter how tall you are, but in the 2010 that hatch pop is just a rubber grip and they moved the button about halfway up between the Mazda badge and the bottom of the hatch so it makes you contort your hand to actually open the hatch. Not good at all.
Other than that the car is obviously uglier than the previous generation and the quality of door panels is much worse.
The up side is that it shed a bit over 900 pounds to go from our (in CA) 150HP/156TQ and pitiful 26lbs/HP to a very acceptable and faster 165HP/167TQ and almost 17lbs/HP!!!!
So that's my take, it is worlds faster but it has some...a lot...of tweaks to be worked out.
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Radar this you have nothing intelligent to say. You are just in this thread to hate on the car and irritate people so move on.
The look of the exterior styling is subjective. I love it, some hate it. The interior quality is not subjective, it is a fact that the material quality and fit-n-finish is improved.
I can't speak for the US market because I don't live there, but here is how the "mini-Nav" fits into the Canadian market. Nav systems on most cars here are a $2500-$3000 option. A leather full load 2009 Mazda 3 prices at about $26k CDN. The Nav has never been available on the 3 in Canada because nobody shopping in this price range here would add $3000 to that price to have a Nav, so it would have been a waste of time to offer it.
On the 2010 Mazda 3 the Nav is packaged with the Bose sound system, AFS headlights, push button start, and Satellite radio all for $1900. This package now makes a great top end for someone wanting a Luxury compact car. No the Nav isn't ideal, but it fits great into this price category. This is great marketing on a great car. Again I don't know how this fits the US economy, but it works great here.
The look of the exterior styling is subjective. I love it, some hate it. The interior quality is not subjective, it is a fact that the material quality and fit-n-finish is improved.
I can't speak for the US market because I don't live there, but here is how the "mini-Nav" fits into the Canadian market. Nav systems on most cars here are a $2500-$3000 option. A leather full load 2009 Mazda 3 prices at about $26k CDN. The Nav has never been available on the 3 in Canada because nobody shopping in this price range here would add $3000 to that price to have a Nav, so it would have been a waste of time to offer it.
On the 2010 Mazda 3 the Nav is packaged with the Bose sound system, AFS headlights, push button start, and Satellite radio all for $1900. This package now makes a great top end for someone wanting a Luxury compact car. No the Nav isn't ideal, but it fits great into this price category. This is great marketing on a great car. Again I don't know how this fits the US economy, but it works great here.
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hopefully the aftermarket will come up with a better front end design.....everything else looks good
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lol...you must be all mighty then huh...rofl...OH MIGHTY MAZDA3, lmao
when has not liking something turn into hate? lmao oh god
the size of that nav, lol...i can see accidents happening with this, the amount of time for some peoples eyes to adjust to that size...
when has not liking something turn into hate? lmao oh god
the size of that nav, lol...i can see accidents happening with this, the amount of time for some peoples eyes to adjust to that size...
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rofl luxury compact car...oh god lmao...hello its a mazda...
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am i not talking about the mazda 3? its just the con side not the pro side...
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Top of its class, best interior for its class, and yes it is a mazda.. Now settle down already because your posts have become truly annoying. Move on.
You are not backing up your so called opinion with any facts or any intelligent reasoning. Repeatedly posting "that's ugly ha ha ha" " the Nav is stupid lmao" and insulting/disrespecting other members is not how we converse on this forum.
