just bought a mazda 3 wagon for the wife

[2003.5msp]

yeah i bought a mazda 3 for the wife she bought my mazdaspeed so i just returned the favor pretty nice car has sunroof,pw,pl 6disc cd changer,xnenon hid headlights,alloy rims,the color is metallic red she loves the car since i work for mazda i got a good deal 15,400!!!!!

 

[eting_pro5]

Congrats!

That is an incredible deal, you should hook everyone on the board up with that price.

 

[2003.5msp]

i can its very possible!!!

 

[t3ase]

Moved to the Mazda3 section.

 

[goldwing2000]

Please don't call it a wagon. Please?

"Wagon" makes people think of a Ford Country Squire with faux wood panels on the side and four screaming kids in the back on the way to Wal-Mart. (shocked)

We prefer the euphemism "5-door hatchback." (2thumbs)

Thanks!

Besides that...

You got E-plan?! Damn... I got stuck with only S-plan. (bang)

 

[Akaveli]

good stuff

 

[ucdchan]

yeah i bought a mazda 3 for the wife she bought my mazdaspeed so i just returned the favor pretty nice car has sunroof,pw,pl 6disc cd changer,xnenon hid headlights,alloy rims,the color is metallic red she loves the car since i work for mazda i got a good deal 15,400!!!!!

Whoa! That's an amazing price. I'm currently looking to buy one too, can you hook me up with a good price? I'll give you some "service" fee for your time. Email me (hi) .

 

[Loose]

yeah i bought a mazda 3 for the wife she bought my mazdaspeed so i just returned the favor pretty nice car has sunroof,pw,pl 6disc cd changer,xnenon hid headlights,alloy rims,the color is metallic red she loves the car since i work for mazda i got a good deal 15,400!!!!!

Congrats. She'll love it (and you).

 

[jersey_emt]

If it has a D-pillar, it's a wagon (spin) (no)

 

[goldwing2000]

If it has a D-pillar, it's a wagon (spin) (no)

Everybody is entitled to their opinion...

... no matter how wrong it may be. (second)

 

[taylor5]

Hatch or Wagon?

Lets settle this.......

Ok, the best thing to call it is a "Sport Wagon" similar to Audi A3/A4 models in Europe. Just a "wagon" or "hatch" sounds strange and either too family(wagon) or too cheap(hatch).

My 82 year old father drives one of those wood paneled wagons(Mercury Colony Park LS) and I will tell ya', this 3s 5-door aint no wagon.

My sister drives a 4 door Golf (hatch) and this 3s 5-door is not that either.

I think the best compromise is "sport wagon" because that term has been "hot" in Europe for many years and it is becoming the "hot" new term here in the States. Where-as "hatch" still has a very strong stigma of being "cheap".

But it is everyones right to say what they want.

 

[PeteyBoy3K]

Lets settle this.......

Ok, the best thing to call it is a "Sport Wagon" similar to Audi A3/A4 models in Europe. Just a "wagon" or "hatch" sounds strange and either too family(wagon) or too cheap(hatch).

My 82 year old father drives one of those wood paneled wagons(Mercury Colony Park LS) and I will tell ya', this 3s 5-door aint no wagon.

My sister drives a 4 door Golf (hatch) and this 3s 5-door is not that either.

I think the best compromise is "sport wagon" because that term has been "hot" in Europe for many years and it is becoming the "hot" new term here in the States. Where-as "hatch" still has a very strong stigma of being "cheap".

But it is everyones right to say what they want.

I'll just keep saying "mazda3 5-door"

it's a 5th door, it even unlocks and locks with the rest of the doors, not some stupid trunk latchey thing that has to be unlocked seperately and has a set of overcomplicated microswitches that gum up and... (sorry, remembering problems with the VW golf again (dark) )

and I dunno, under 20K, base price right around 16... is sorta cheap.

and aren't they calling the mazda6 5-door their "sport wagon"?

 

[RonH]

Wagons have tailgates, hatchbacks don't.

 

[goldwing2000]

Wagons have tailgates, hatchbacks don't.

Not always.

Taurus wagon has a hatchback.

Volvo wagon has a hatchback.

Escort Wagon has a hatchback.

I had a '77 Malibu wagon that had a hatchback.

etc, etc, etc...

Of course... they always call them "liftgates".

And none of them have Zoom-Zoom.

 

[RonH]

Not always.

Taurus wagon has a hatchback.

Volvo wagon has a hatchback.

Escort Wagon has a hatchback.

I had a '77 Malibu wagon that had a hatchback.

etc, etc, etc...

Of course... they always call them "liftgates".

And none of them have Zoom-Zoom.

I know, I know. I was just trying to seperate the two different ways of opening the rear. I'm from the days of tailgate station wagons so I always called the hatch models, hatchbacks, not wagons. But it seems that everybody sees thing differently. I call my 5 door a hatchback, since the hatch lifts up and not swing out or lay down like a tailgate.

 

[goldwing2000]

I know, I know. I was just trying to seperate the two different ways of opening the rear. I'm from the days of tailgate station wagons so I always called the hatch models, hatchbacks, not wagons. But it seems that everybody sees thing differently. I call my 5 door a hatchback, since the hatch lifts up and not swing out or lay down like a tailgate.

I hear ya. I was pondering the same things when I was thinking of a reason NOT to call it a wagon.

You saw the best I could come up with...

A plea and a veiled reference to the proliferation of breeders.

 

[PeteyBoy3K]

I hear ya. I was pondering the same things when I was thinking of a reason NOT to call it a wagon.

You saw the best I could come up with...

A plea and a veiled reference to the proliferation of breeders.

I think wagons/hatchbacks (or most anything that has what equates to a near-vertical rear window that is pushed out rather than a sloped window leading to a trunk-esque pinch (like the fastbacks/sedans) are the intriguing outliers of what is otherwise a very sedan-or-van-or-truck-or-suv market.

hatchwagons tend to be a subset of cars that are really different but usually in a good way. Namely because you get more (more cargo space, easier rear loading, some more glass, and usually a rear windshield wiper/sprayer) resting on a platform that shares same handling/reliability/components of a proven and popular sedan(thus, not you're not driving up costs for uniqueness)

It's my take that big family types (breeders) tend to lie more towards minivans and suv's nowadays anyways, just because minivans are huge without feeling too huge and suv's are "safe" (I'd still like to see what happens if two H2's ever run into each other)... and if they can't get those they are usually just getting a 4door run-of-the-mill sedan.

Thus, I always find it strange that so many people stigmatize the hatch/wagon concept because it happened to be one of the cheaper options for kid-hauling from the 50's to the 80's. I always just think of the AWD turbocharged corolla wagon of rally doom (whip)

 

[goldwing2000]

Actually, one of the things that pushed my over the edge of buying the Mazda3 hatch was seeing a 5-door wagon-ish thing (Lexus? BMW?) zipping around an SCCA course and doing quite well.

The 3 has even broken the mold, inasmuch as the 5-door is almost a completely different car (visually) than the 4-door. I think they have exactly ZERO common body panels, unlike every sedan-based wagon.

 

[NeedACar]

love it

I'll take a Mazda 3 for that price! I just graduated from college and recently test-drove the car. It's awesome! Let me know what you can do for me.