HIGHS Handsome design, nimble handling, upscale cabin. LOWS Short on low-end grunt, tight back seat, lacks some desirable infotainment features. VERDICT The Mazda 3 is good-looking, practical, and fun ...

Man, those Mazda guys are deep. They flew us out to California’s Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca to test out their new handling-improving G-Vectoring Control system, but before we so much as sat in a car, ...

Transmission Control Module (TCM) faults are not unknown on these early Mazda 3s. Symptoms usually involve erratic shifting, a failure to select gear at all and having the car go into limp-home mode.

The refinement differences were more apparent on my jaunts outside town limits. Both transmitted less vibration through the main controls than many of the three-cylinder turbo engines I’ve tried in ...

Mazda introduced the all-new Mazda3 hatchback in late 2018 as the first production car to apply the evolved Kodo-Soul of Motion design language inspired by Japanese aesthetics and simplicity. Built as ...

As we've said before, the Mazda 3's cabin is the best in its class—by quite some margin, too. The dashboard is cleanly designed, while a set of mostly analog dials and a head-up display present ...

The 2024 Mazda 3 range of configurations is currently priced from $23,994. Our most recent review of the 2024 Mazda 3 resulted in a score of 8.5 out of 10 for that particular example. Carsguide ...