Mazda3 Spy-Photo
 

Hope this works! What do you guys think?

http://members.optushome.com.au/pjc0...azda3proto.jpg

i seriously hope that is not what makes the production line. IMO it is a crx on super crack. The rear window looks dumb as a$$, visibility in that car will suck royally. The front from what I can tell looks like it has some potential, but the rear is a sad sight.

well who knows...under all that "armor" it could be just about anything......

I do have this bad feeling that I am not going to be impressed with the looks of the new 3......just a gut feeling.....and although the Protege is a great car....if it still handled as well as it does but was ugly....I wouldn't be driving one. I need the total package.

Back of Spy-Shot
 

How can you even tell what the back looks like? It is extremely disguised, that weird flip up at the end is not really the actual car. The only thing you can really make out in the back is the tail-lights.

Can you say Precidia? :D

Re: Back of Spy-Shot
 

my bad most spy photos i have seen like this, have the shape of the car covered in the armor, not just some huge section on the back that isn't part of it.

I'm not 100% sure but that plastic seems to be hiding a regular sloping hatchback, not the flat-back CRX type thing. Look at the pillars.

I would say it looks a lot like this car:
http://www.autotriti.gr/PAGES/44_200...katask.01b.jpg
Just take all that cladding off, and that looks like a Protege5 replacement. Depending by how really big the driver is, it looks as though the rumors of Protege5 becoming larger are true. Mazda, I guess wants a share of the market that PT Cruiser, Matrix, Vibe, and others are sharing. This cross-over vehicle trend is almost as big these days, just like SUVs were a couple of years ago. Every one is jumping on the wagon.

I don't think they are finished with that rear, I hope not at least. It doesn't look like the hatch could open all the way from what I can make out. I hope the front end has the V on the hood like the new 6 does.

Those brakes look really big ! Have they gone back to some 15" wheels on it? Or made the brakes a lot bigger....

If that infact is the Mazda 3 then im going to buy a 12 gauge shot gun and proceed to put the barrel in my mouth and pull the trigger.


No kidding...

Anyway, i wonder what it really looks like. I read somewhere that the front is going to look like the MP3.

The 3 isnt going to be just a wagon is it? Will they have a regular sedan model like out Pros or just the silly wagon?

I also read that they are going for more of a vibe or matrix look *shudders*

that will bring me to tears.

I agree. The sexy, shapley protege5 right now is probably tje best design for a new car I've seen! Anything bigger and less-sharpe, I don't think I will like.

p.s. me drunk, it's new years.

mazda is just getting there sences back and buildering more powerfull cars, i hope they dont do like honda and go ugly. if they build a bigger Pro5 then they obviously havent been reading reviews. every1 knows the styling of the current p5 kicks every other wagon's ass.

should we all write to them???? please let me know, given the chance i'll fly there personaly and beg.

...will be praying...

-Jason

Well, if you take away that rear green goblin attachment then I think it looks like a maxima/altima. It has a rounded off top. I really wanna see the final pics though.

You can't tell anything from these photos. All I can really make out of it is part of the front, which looks like kind of a mix between the current Protege 5 and the 6. I'm sure we'll be getting better viwes of it soon enough.