2010 Mazdaspeed 3 - Long-Term Road Test Wrap-Up - Car and Driver
Still, we like its menacing hot-hatch styling with new-for-‘13 black body trim, and its well-equipped interior, which at long last is available with a proper touch-screen navigation system. Long-Term Road Test – 2010 Mazdaspeed 3 It’s no secret that performance ranks pretty high on the C/D list of valued vehicle attributes. Hustle will cover for quite a few minor sins in our evaluations, and our 40,000-mile experience with this 2010 Mazdaspeed 3 makes an excellent case in point. Though it displayed several personality traits few would find acceptable in an ordinary compact car, its boy-racer soul won over even the most vocal of its critics. This is the second generation of Mazda’s scrappy hot hatch, an evolutionary overhaul that entailed a modest menu of detail updates, including revised cosmetics and mechanical tweaks aimed at sharpening handling responses and reducing torque steer. Judging by our test car’s logbook, Mazda’s Speed 3 team missed the torque-steer target. Our Celestial Blue Mica Speed 3 arrived on December 1, 2009, the threshold of a Michigan season that can make torque steer especially exciting. We specified a Speed 3 Sport (the slightly more expensive Speed 3 GT trim level disappeared with the onset of the 2010 model year). To that we added the $1895 Mazdaspeed Tech package: 242-watt, 10-speaker Bose audio system with a six-CD changer and MP3 compatibility. and the aptly named compact navigation system—hope you brought your reading glasses—for a grand total of $25,840. The evolution from gen one to gen two didn’t entail any change in. Source: www.caranddriver.com
