I work across the street from Mazda R&D here in Cali.... I almost want to walk across the street and knock on the door and ask "What the heck were you thinking?".

(there have been Mazda 6 mules running around there for the past year tool)

2008 Focus.

Thierry Henry is a dirty cheat !

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I don't know if I can tell you exactly when the ***** generation started.....

Demo model I take it?

Edit: Good to see Lapis back on the menu.

Veddy nice. Any chance it comes with a press kit?

Hint, hint.

Edited to add: No manual for the V6, no hatchback or wagon....wtf??? It's like they're taking everything that was good and different about the original Mazda6 and taking a big dump on it. It's really a frustrating sign of things to come for this Mazda fan

Modified by romano258 at 11:02 AM 5/21/2008

I think it's supposed to be early-mid fall.

The current 6's size (or lack therof) is the reason it has not been very successful in the US and the reason they always had 2500-4000 on the hood to move them. Compared to the Camry, Altima and Accord of the same gen's the 6 was tiny and families werent having it.

i agree, the front end screams saturn

my mom has a current gen 6, much better looking imo

can someone post pics of the jdm body style?
(image links are broken)

Modified by BTM at 11:24 AM 5-21-2008

Da Bears

Sempre Tifosi

Yeah...the Civic and Corolla outsell the 3.

And the 6 struggled against even the previous generation of the Camry and Altima.

"Think, you humans who are split into two worlds, unless you want the gulf between humans to expand into oblivion, you must think!"

No 5 door or wagon is a bad move imo as more people look (are financially forced...LOL!) to downsize out of SUV's in the USA.

I'll take a i Grand Touring with a 6 speed stick please

I'm surprised that they changed the exhaust for the 4-cylinder from dual exhaust in the 1st gen to a single exhaust with dual tips.

Modified by 1.8T Monsoon at 6:50 PM 5-21-2008

Is it their goal to be small, though? Why can't Mazda sell just (or nearly) as many by offering such a good car that's so competitively priced? I don't get it. I hope the next 3 can sell more while being just as excellent; Mazda deserves the same name recognition Honda's gotten for decades (it'd help if car mags gave it the same subjective praise they give Honda/BMW).

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