The Mazda 3 is a model of compact truck of the Japanese car manufacturer Mazda. Mazda 3 succeeds the Mazda 323.

1^ère generation

Mazda 3 is marketed with the autumn 2003. It is conceived on the platform of the Ford C-max and the Volvo S40. It is assembled in Hofu in Japan.

Mazda 3 is available in two levels of completion. The equipment of series, completion Harmonizes, includes/understands: frontal airbags, an electronic system of distribution of braking, ABS, an emergency brake, five head-rests, panes tinted, bumpers color body, a back bench folding 2/3-1/3, doors goblets, power-assisted steering, car radio RDS, electric locking, panes before electric and a system audio 2 loudspeakers.

Finally the Elégance completion includes/understands all the equipment of the completion harmonizes more: the EPS, of the side airbags and curtains, fog with front, the side bar of protection color body, of the alloy rims, an automatic air-conditioning, a trip computer, a system of starting per chart, of the electric rear windows, an audio system 6 loudspeakers and a wheel leather.

Like the Mazda 2, it is only motorized with 4 cylinders. To its marketing the motorizations gasoline go from the 1,4 L of 84 ch au 2,0 L of 150 ch, while passing by the 1,6 L of diesel 105 ch. En it has the 1,6 L 109 ch conceived by Ford and PSA.

Mid 2006, it is very slightly restylée and a second diesel motorization is proposed, they are the 1,6 L whose power is brought back 90 ch. En November 2006, a new version is marketed the MPS (Mazda Performance Series) equipped with the 2,3 L turbo of 260 ch de la Mazda 6 MPS, of a back aileron, rims alloy of 18 inches and principal equipment of the Elégance completion.

Mazda 3 is also sold under the name Axela or Mazda 3 with different motorizations in Japan, in North America, in Philippines and in Australia.

⁽¹⁾ L4: four-cylinder motor on line.

Sources

• French Official site