I won a 2 year lease on a Speed3 by playing XBOX lol

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2007 Crystal White Pearl MS3
Hey whats up everyone? I'm new to the forums and to Mazda too, thought I'd say hello!

So I was at the Toronto Auto Show back in Feb and there was a joint promotion between XBOX and Mazda, with some TVs and 360's set up running Need For Speed: Carbon. (here's a link to the promo website http://www.mazda.ca/mazdaspeedchampionship/) You got one chance to run one lap on this track, in a Speed3 of course, and your qualifying time was entered. The top 64 times from the Auto Show got invited back to this championship thing a couple weekends ago where they set up a bracket kinda like March Madness and you raced head to head, with the winner moving on to the next round. I didn't think I had a chance in hell because I hadn't played the game all that much and I figured some people were probably insane gamers. Anyway, as you can tell by the thread title, I won the whole damn thing and the prize was a 2 year lease on a Mazdaspeed 3 ... pretty ridiculous huh?!? I picked up my nice shiny crystal white pearl MS3 three days ago and its sweeeeet...


or at least it WAS sweet. Yesterday, I was driving it and I go to change gears, press down on the clutch pedal and the thing didn't come back up!!!!! It was just sitting all the way down at the floor. The clutch was gone, like maybe the hydraulics for it or something? (I don't know a lot about cars to be honest). I had to get it towed to the dealership and apparently they're going to take a look at it on monday, but I'm a little annoyed/worried. Can anyone shed any light on this? I only had about 100 km on the thing and hadn't been driving crazy or anything.(help)
 
Clutch slave cylinder seal as speed3shon says. This happened to me 10 days ago. My car has been in the shop since then because the part is back-ordered. I have been driving a POS rental Altima which REALLY makes me appreciate the MS3. Its the wife's car, but since it is in the shop she naturally takes my car, the MS6 leaving me to drive the crap car...LOL.

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Thats sweet man! You def gotta post some pics... I am so jealous you guys get the white option, I would love it in white!
 
i remember seeing that challenge... and was wishing i could do it in edmonton. congrats dude, thats ******* awesome - bag the s*** outta it.
 
Yeah you are pretty lucky. Hopefully you dont have many problems and get to enjoy the hell out of it.
 
I hate you!!! lol (hah)

just kidding...thats amazing!! Congrats on the free lease!!!
 
Another Edmontonian here that felt jipped because I couldn't enter the contest. =(

I would have practiced for like 5 months!
I assumed others would have done the same but I guess not - you basically walked up, played and won. Good job!!!
 
Thanks everyone for the congrats. The Speed3 is actually my first daily driver so it replaces a combo of borrowing a parent's car, the bus, and subway haha. I hadn't needed one until now, and was looking to buy something used, so this win couldn't have come at a better time - I definitely lucked out!

Here are some pics: They're from the evening I picked up the car, and it was getting kind of dark and close to sunset, but they're the only ones I have. The close up pic of the mazdaspeed3 tag shows the pearl paint a little better. It really looks amazing on a nice sunny day...

(rant) ...but I think it could be a while before I get to enjoy one of those. The dealership called today and told me that my clutch is toast. How the hell that could happen after only 100 km of driving, I don't know. Whats even worse was that I was driving it home from the service department at the dealership when it broke down (It had an engine light on when they delivered the car, so I took it back for them to check out. They said it was nothing major and got rid of the problem). I find it hard to believe that it was something I did to cause this problem. I'm not an amazing manual driver but I'm not the worst either, and I didn't have any problems driving the Speed3 in the two days I had it. (rant)

Now I'm waiting for them to order some parts so I'm going to have to wait to put some tint on and get some brighter photos.
 

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oh my dear lord. that is beautiful.

sucks about the clutch, but im sure it will be fixed up without any trouble.

nice win on the car. lucky!.lol
 
dude the car is awsome that would suck having the cluthch go out so soon right when your all exited about the car
 
curse of the mazdaspeed!

beautiful car though, looks awesome in in crystal white pearl
 
so is that clutch covered under the warranty? I mean no matter what u do to a car, theres no way a clutch should go bad that soon unless it was defective.
 

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